On June 22, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Pamela M. Tremont as Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan. On July 11, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Manuel P. Micaller, Jr. is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor. He currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. Before that, Micaller was Deputy Chief of Mission (and Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim) at the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Micaller also served as the Deputy Director of the Office of India Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in Washington, D.C, and held assignments as the Political–Economic Section Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and as an Economic Officer in the South and Central Asian Affairs Bureau’s Office of Regional Affairs.
Earlier, Micaller was an Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, Morocco, worked in the State Department Executive Secretariat and Operations Center, and was posted to positions in Russia and Tajikistan.
Micaller earned his Bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University and his Master’s in Business Administration from George Washington University. He also received a Master’s degree from the National Defense University. His foreign languages include Russian and Tajik.
