12 Facts About Ted Osius

Theodore George Osius III was born on 1961 and is an American diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Vietnam.

Ted Osius attended The Putney School in Vermont, graduating in 1979.

Ted Osius then worked as a legislative correspondent for Senator Al Gore from 1985 to 1987.

In 1996, Ted Osius was among the first US diplomats to work in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.

Ted Osius returned to 1998 to advise Vice President Al Gore on Asian affairs.

In 2001, Ted Osius became regional environmental affairs officer at the US embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2008, Ted Osius was assigned to New Delhi, India as political minister-counselor.

In 2009, Ted Osius became the deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Ted Osius returned again to Washington in 2012 to work as a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

In May 2014, Osius was nominated by President Barack Obama to be US ambassador to Vietnam.

Ted Osius was confirmed by the US Senate in November 2014.

In 2004, Ted Osius met his future husband, Clayton Bond, then a watch officer in the State Department's operations center, at a meeting of Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies.