Amy V. Diaz appointed US Chargé d'Affaires to Georgia

The United States Embassy in Tbilisi on Thursday announced Amy V. Diaz as Chargé d’Affaires, who assumed leadership of the Embassy in July 2026.

A senior career member of the US Foreign Service, Diaz most recently served as Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Her previous assignments include Deputy Director of the Office of Policy and Global Issues in the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Consular Section Chief at the US Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, and Counternarcotics Unit Chief at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Diaz has also served as Rule of Law Adviser and Summit of the Americas Coordinator at the US Embassy in Panama, Chief of the Internal Political Unit at the US Embassy in Tbilisi, Vice Consul in Harare, and Vice Consul at the US Consulate General in Monterrey, Mexico.

She joined the US Department of State in 2002 through the Presidential Management Fellows Program and became a career Foreign Service Officer in 2005. Diaz earned a bachelor's degree from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arizona.

According to the Embassy, Diaz has received multiple Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor Awards from the US Department of State. She is married and has one child.

Until her appointment, Alan Purcell had been serving as Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Georgia.