The U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe is a Baylor Bear

Earlier this year, Pamela Tremont (BA ’90, MA ’92) was sworn in as the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe — the culmination of a road to foreign service that began at Baylor three decades ago.

At Baylor, Tremont earned her bachelor’s in political science and her master’s in international relations, during which time she was also a part of Baylor Ambassadors, the Foreign Affairs Association, and the Golden Key International Honor Society. Upon graduating from Baylor, she embarked on a career that has included stops at U.S. embassies in Turkey, the United Kingdom, Zambia, Cyprus, Ukraine, and Sweden, most recently as deputy chief of mission in Stockholm.

As ambassador to Zimbabwe, she’s tasked with improving relations between the two countries after a rocky couple of decades. “That is what every ambassador wants to do in the country they come to,” Tremont said at an introductory press conference. “I am looking at new ways to do that with the Zimbabwean government, civil society, and business.”

Tremont continues a legacy of Bears in foreign service that includes such Baylor alumni as Steven Browning (BA ’71; ambassador to Malawi, 2003-04, and to Uganda, 2006-09), Lyndon Olson (BA ’76; ambassador to Sweden, 1998-2001) and Douglas Silliman (BA ’82; ambassador to Kuwait, 2014-16, and to Iraq, 2016-19).

Sic ’em, Ambassador Tremont!