Senior foreign service officer assumes role as US Charge d’Affaires in Baku

The United States has appointed a new Charge d’Affaires to Azerbaijan.

The US Embassy in Baku announced the appointment via its official X account, Caliber.Az reports.

The U.S. Embassy in Baku is happy to announce that our new Chargé d’Affaires, Amy Carlon, arrived in Baku this week! Welcome!

Learn more about Chargé d’Affaires Carlon here: https://t.co/eOwQAMlOQX pic.twitter.com/qNMLixrrcc

— U.S. Embassy Baku (@USEmbassyBaku) July 3, 2025

Amy Carlon has been designated to assume the role and is expected to arrive in Baku later this week.

Amy Carlon assumed her duties as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Baku on June 23, 2025.

Prior to her current appointment, she served as Director of the Foreign Service Institute’s Political Training Division from June 2022 to August 2024. Her previous assignments include Deputy Director of the Office of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands within the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs (2020–2022), and Political Counselor at the US Embassy in Athens, Greece (2016–2019). Carlon’s overseas postings also include Indonesia, Austria, and Russia, complemented by significant domestic roles within the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Bureau of Global Talent Management, and Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

Amy Carlon joined the US Foreign Service in 1999 following the completion of a Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Further enhancing her strategic acumen, she earned a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School at the National Defence University in June 2020.

By Vafa Guliyeva