List of United States Ambassadors in Albania

Yuri Kim, ambassador since 2020

The list of US ambassadors to Albania includes all heads of the US mission in Tirana from the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1922 to the present day. The embassy is located at 103 Rruga Elbasanit (Elbasan Street) in Tirana.

Appointed	Accredited	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at	Leave post
22 Sep 1922	Dec. 4, 1922	Ulysses Grant-Smith		Warren G. Harding	Regency Council	Feb 8, 1925
May 27, 1925	Aug 1, 1925	Charles Calmer Hart	In 1928 the Albanian parliament changed the form of government to monarchy; Charles C. Hart received an accreditation letter for Ahmet Zogu , which he presented on December 13, 1928.	Calvin Coolidge	Ahmet Zogu	Dec 12, 1929
Feb. 17, 1930	Apr 28, 1930	Herman Bernstein		Herbert Hoover	Ahmet Zogu	Sep 24 1933
Aug 26, 1933	Nov 28, 1933	Post wheeler		Franklin D. Roosevelt	Ahmet Zogu	Nov 1, 1934
Aug 9, 1935	Nov 8, 1935	Hugh Gladney Grant	After the occupation of Albania by Italian forces on April 8, 1939, the US embassy was closed on September 16, 1939.	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Ahmet Zogu	27 Sep 1939
Oct 1, 1991		Christopher R. Hill	Charge d'Affaires ad interim; on March 15, 1991 diplomatic relations were established with Albania	George Bush	Ramiz Alia
Dec 2, 1991	Dec 21, 1991	William Edwin Ryerson		George Bush	Ramiz Alia	Oct 13, 1994
5th July 1994	Oct 17, 1994	Joseph Edward Lake		Bill Clinton	Sali Berisha	March 15, 1996
2nd July 1996	4th Sep 1996	Marisa Lino		Bill Clinton	Sali Berisha	May 20, 1999
July 7, 1999	8 Sep 1999	Joseph Limprecht	(† May 19, 2002 in Lura , Albania)	Bill Clinton	Rexhep Meidani	May 19, 2002
Oct 3, 2002	Oct 22, 2002	James Franklin Jeffrey		George W. Bush	Alfred Moisiu	May 2, 2004
Oct 18, 2004	Oct 30, 2004	Marcie Berman Ries		George W. Bush	Alfred Moisiu	June 16, 2007
June 28, 2007	Aug 29, 2007	John L. Withers		George W. Bush	Bamir Topi	Nov 10, 2010
July 1, 2010	Nov 10, 2010	Alexander Arvizu		Barack Obama	Bamir Topi	Jan. 11, 2015
Dec 16, 2014	Jan. 13, 2015	Donald Lu		Barack Obama	Bujar Nishani
Nov 21, 2019	Jan 27, 2020	Yuri Kim	First Korean-American and first resident of Guam as American ambassador	Donald Trump	Ilir Meta

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Ambassadors. In: Embassy of the United States Tirana, Albania. Retrieved September 4, 2013 . 
2. ^ US Relations With Albania. In: US Department of State. December 20, 2012, accessed September 4, 2013 . 
3. ^ Joseph Limprecht, 55; Ambassador to Albania. In: Los Angeles Times . May 21, 2002, accessed September 4, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Alexander A. Arvizu ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ The Ambassador of the United States of America presents the Letters of Credentials to the President of the Republic ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Donald Lu US Ambassador to Albania ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Yuri Kim confirmed as Albania ambassador. In: The Guam Daily Post. December 24, 2019, accessed February 1, 2020 .