Ambassador Pamela Hyde Smith 

Pamela Hyde Smith held the position of U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova from 2001 to 2003. She was a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, having served prior to her Ambassadorship as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in London, Press Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Cultural Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade when it was the capital of Yugoslavia, in a first posting at the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, and in several Washington positions. 

From 2003 through 2007, Amb. Smith taught Masters-level and undergraduate courses on diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. From 2007 through 2014, Amb. Smith returned to the State Department to lead overseas and domestic inspections for the Office of the Inspector General. 

Amb. Smith serves on the boards of Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, and the Nature Conservancy’s Latin America Trustee Cabinet.

Selected publications:

“Moldova Matters: Why Progress is Still Possible on Ukraine’s Southwestern Flank,” Atlantic Council, March 2005;

“The Hard Road Back to Soft Power,” The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter-Spring 2007.