Henry T. Wooster

Henry T. Wooster is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Jordan from 2020 to 2023. He is currently the Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In June 2026, he was nominated as United States ambassador to Kenya.

Education and military service

Wooster earned a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College and a Master of Arts from Yale University. He served as an Officer in the United States Army Reserve from 1985 to 2009.

Foreign service career

He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the class of Minister-Counselor. On June 12, 2025, he began serving as the Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Haiti. He previously was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France. He served as Deputy Chief of Mission and then Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, from March 24, 2017 to July 30, 2018. He also served as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, Director for Central Asia at the National Security Council, and the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command. Early in his career he worked as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and as the Director of the Office of Iranian Affairs in the State Department. His most recent position was as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Maghreb and Egypt in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the State Department. On May 13, 2020, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was confirmed on August 6, 2020 by voice vote. He presented his credentials on October 18, 2020. On June 1, 2026, President Donald Trump nominated Wooster to serve as the next United States ambassador to Kenya, subject to confirmation by the United States Senate.

Personal life

He speaks French and Russian and has a working knowledge of Arabic, Persian, and Aramaic.