Ambassador Earl A. Wayne

Last Name: Wayne

First Name: Earl

Middle Name: Anthony
Suffix:

Nickname: Tony

Medals and Honors:

• Director General’s Cup for the Foreign Service (2017).

  Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Award for Initiative and Success in Trade Development for work in Mexico (2015).

  Order of the Aztec Eagle awarded by Mexico’s President and Foreign Secretary (2015).

  Global Ambassador of Peace and Public Service, International House, U.C. Berkeley (2015).

  Award for Promotion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Mexico’s Economy Secretary (2014). 

   Presidential Meritorious Service Award for work in Afghanistan (2012).

  Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service for work in Afghanistan (2011).

  Confirmed by U.S. Senate as a Career Ambassador (the most senior rank in the Foreign Service) (2010). 

  Cordell Hull Award for Economic Achievement by Senior Officers for work in Afghanistan (2010). 

  Paul Wellstone Anti-Slavery Ambassador of the Year Award for work in Argentina (2008).

  Department of State’s Distinguished Honor Award for work as EB Assistant Secretary (2005). 

  Presidential Meritorious Service Award for work as EB Assistant Secretary (2005).

  Presidential Distinguished Service Award for work related to Kosovo and Southwest Europe (2001).

ACNSL Offices and Committees:

Rank: Senior Foreign Service, Career Ambassador

Service/Department: U.S. Dept of State

Last or Significant Assignment: Ambassador to Mexico

Areas of Experience:

• Counter-terrorism
  Europe and the E.U.
  Foreign Development Aid
  International Relations and Diplomacy
  International Trade and Sanctions
  NORTHCOM
  South and Central America
  The Balkans
  Treaties and Negotiations
  
  

Articles, Books and Publications:

• Website: www.eawayne.com.

Earl Anthony Wayne (born 1950) is an American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Ambassador to Argentina and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wayne served nearly four years as Ambassador to Mexico. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August, 2011. He departed Mexico City for Washington July 31, 2015 and retired from the State Department on September 30, 2015. Wayne attained the highest rank in the U.S. diplomatic service: Career Ambassador. He is currently a Diplomat in Residence at American University's School of International Service and works with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Atlantic Council, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as an independent consultant, speaker and writer. Wayne worked as an adviser for HSBC Latin America on improving management of financial crime risk from 2015 until 2019 and with the American Foreign Service Association from 2017 to 2019.