THE United States embassy has announced the arrival of the new Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. D. Brent Hardt.
Ambassador Hardt, who was confirmed by the Senate in June, arrived in the country last Thursday, a release issued by the embassy on Friday stated.
Ambassador Hardt is a senior career Foreign Service Officer with extensive service in the Western Hemisphere and Europe, who, prior to his nomination, served as Chargé d’Affaires for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from January 2009 to June 2011.
He has also served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, Bahamas from 2005-2008, and at the U.S. embassy to the Holy See in Rome from 2002 to 2005.
According to the release, Ambassador Hardt joined the United States Foreign Service in 1988, and served as a Consular Officer in Bridgetown, Barbados,from 1988-89; Political Officer at the U.S. embassy in Berlin from 1990 to 1992; and Political-Military Officer at the U.S. embassy in The Hague from 1993-96, where he also served as an exchange diplomat in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 
From 1996 to 2000, he returned to the U.S. embassy in the Eastern Caribbean as Political-Economic Section Chief and Acting Deputy Chief of Mission.
During this time, he helped develop the 1997 Caribbean-U.S. Summit agenda, and subsequently worked to implement Summit commitments with countries in the Eastern Caribbean.
From 2000-2002, he served as Team Leader for NATO Policy in the Office of European Political and Security Affairs in the Department of State, where he was responsible for NATO enlargement, European Security and Defense Policy issues, NATO-Russia, and NATO-Ukraine relations.
Ambassador Hardt has also received various Department of State awards, including the Director General’s Award for Reporting, five Superior Honour Awards, and two Meritorious Honour Awards.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree in History from Yale University, and his Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. 
He has published numerous articles on U.S. foreign policy, and speaks Italian, Dutch, German and French.
Ambassador Hardt is married and he and wife, Saskia, have three sons.