Marc Knapper

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Marc Evans Knapper is an American diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Vietnam. Knapper earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and his Master of Arts from the Army War College. Knapper is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor. He previously served as the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea and, prior to that, was the embassy’s deputy chief of mission. Earlier, Knapper was director of the State Department’s Office of India Affairs and director of the State Department’s office of Japanese Affairs. From 2004 to 2007, he was political affairs counselor at the U.S. embassy in Hanoi. His other assignments include leadership positions in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. From August 1, 2018 until July 12, 2021, Knapper served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan. On April 15, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Knapper to be the next United States Ambassador to Vietnam. Hearings on his nomination were held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his nomination on July 13, 2021.