James Baxter Hunt III is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service who served as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in

Santiago, Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated Regions of Chile, region, t ...

from January 2019 until August 10, 2020, when Richard Glenn assumed duties. Before that, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Santiago (since August, 2017) and Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of State. Hunt was a Presidential Management Intern working in the State Department, the Department of Defense and the National Security Council before entering the Foreign Service. He is the son of former North Carolina governor James Baxter Hunt, Jr. and

Carolyn Hunt Carolyn Joyce Hunt ('' née'' Leonard; born July 3, 1937) is an American educator and politician who, as the wife of Jim Hunt, served as the Second Lady of North Carolina from 1973 to 1977 and twice-served as the First Lady of North Carolina, fro ...

Education

*M.P.A.,

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

*B.A.,

University of North Carolina The University of North Carolina is the multi-campus public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it is commonly referred to as the UNC Sy ...

References

Living people United States Foreign Service personnel Ambassadors of the United States to Chile Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni University of North Carolina alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Baxter {{US-diplomat-stub