Teddy B. Taylor - United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Foreign Service Institute

Teddy Bernard Taylor is a United States diplomat. He currently serves as the United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.Taylor started his diplomatic career in 1978 working as a Consular/Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala through 1980. From 1981 to 1983, he worked at the U.S. Embassy in Panama and from 1983 to 1985, at the embassy in Honduras. In 1985, upon his return to the states, he was appointed Deputy Director of Press and Public Affairs in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs remaining on the post until 1987 when he took up the role of Deputy Policy Officer for Latin America at the United States Information Agency.