Amb. Peter M. Haymond

Ambassador Peter M. Haymond joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies as a senior diplomatic fellow in September 2023. He led the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane, Laos, from January 2020 to August 2023. From 2016 to 2019, he served as deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.

Haymond has also held roles as director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, consul general at the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu, China, and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane, Laos.

Earlier in his Foreign Service career, Haymond served in Washington, D.C., as division chief of the Office of Energy and Commodities in the Bureau of Economic and Energy Affairs and as Arabian Peninsula officer in the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator. He was also deputy director of the Office of Economics and Development Affairs in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. His earlier overseas assignments included roles at U.S. embassies in China as an economic officer, in Laos as a narcotics affairs officer, and in Thailand and South Korea as a consular officer.

Before joining the Foreign Service, Haymond worked at a financial firm in Thailand and conducted doctoral research in Morocco.

Haymond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy and doctoral degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He speaks Lao, Thai, Mandarin Chinese, and some French.