Leslie Tsou

Leslie Meredith Tsou is an American diplomat who served as the US Ambassador to Oman from January 10, 2020, to March 30, 2023.

Immediately prior to this assignment, Tsou served as the first Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem following its opening in May 2018. Before that, she served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv from 2016 to 2017.

Tsou earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

She is currently a Senior Fellow at Yale University in the Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Tenure On April 18, 2022, Oman and the United States signed an agreement on the employment of official employees' spouses. Tsou and Omani diplomat Mohammed Nasser Al Wahaibi were responsible in signing this agreement.

Tsou was accused of bullying subordinates during her tenure as ambassador.

The State Department's Office of Inspector General reported that the embassy community was still recovering three years later from the trauma of a 2022 terrorist attack on an embassy employee. Tsou's response to the incident divided the community and led to six diplomats leaving the country.

Personal life Tsou speaks English, broken Arabic, and Polish.