Jasmine Huggins

Jasmine Elise Huggins is a Kittian and Nevisian diplomat. She was the most long-serving ambassador to Taiwan during her twelve years at Taipei.

Life Huggins comes from the small city of Basseterre, the capital of St Kitts. When she was a small child her family moved to New York, where she was brought up.

Huggins studied in Washington and graduated with a law degree from the Howard University School of Law. She then worked for her country's embassy in Washington where she worked for the OAS, negotiating inter-American declarations, conventions and resolutions.

She was given the task of establishing an embassy in Taiwan and she went there as the Chargé d'affaires. After two years she was promoted to the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of St. Kitts and Nevis to the Republic of China (Taiwan). Her embassy looks after her country's interests and the visitors from St Kitts which includes a good number of exchange students thanks to a special programme. Huggins was thanked by Tsai Ing-wen the President of Taiwan for her twelve years of service as ambassador. She had been the most long-serving Taipei ambassador.