Baxter Hunt
James Baxter Hunt III has been the U.S. Consul General in Toronto, Canada, effective October 2023.[1]
A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Hunt served as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Santiago, Chile, from January 2019 until August 10, 2020,[2] when Richard Glenn[3] assumed duties. Before that, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Santiago (since August 2017) and Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of State.
Hunt was a Presidential Management Intern working in the State Department, the Department of Defense, and the National Security Council before entering the Foreign Service. He also served abroad at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan; the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada; the U.S. Consulate General in Durban, South Africa; and the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.
He is the son of former North Carolina governor James Baxter Hunt, Jr. and Carolyn Hunt.
Education
[edit]- M.P.A., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
- B.A., University of North Carolina
References
[edit]- ^ "Consul General Baxter Hunt". U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Canada. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ "J. Baxter Hunt III - People - Department History - Office of the Historian".
- ^ "Chargé d'Affaires - Richard H. Glenn".
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