page_title: Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir
section_title: Ambassador to Malaysia
hierarchical_section_title: Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir / Career / Ambassador to Malaysia
caption_attribution_description: Secretary Michael R. Pompeo arrives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is greeted by Ambassador Lakhdhir, Malaysian greeters, Protocol officers, interpreters.
context_page_description: Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir is the United States Ambassador to Malaysia. She was appointed by President Barack Obama on December 9, 2016 and presented her credentials on February 21, 2017.
context_section_description: Lakhdhir was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as United States Ambassador to Malaysia on 16 June 2016 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 10 December 2016.
  In her role as ambassador, Lakhdhir has been engaged in improving communications with Malaysians through a greater range of media, supporting on-going cooperation of U.S. companies in Malaysia and the nation's workforce, as well as promoting cooperative undertaking such as research on renewable energy for the country.
  On May 21, 2018 Lakhdhir met with Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at his Perdana Leadership Foundation office, congratulating him on his electoral win and welcoming the opportunity to work with him and his cabinet. In August 2018 she accompanied Mike Pompeo U.S. Secretary of State as he visited Dr. Mahathir , Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu and Deputy Foreign Minister Dato' Marzuki Yahya. Pompeo became the most senior US official to visit the new prime minister since his election victory.
  Lakhdir also welcomed U.S. participation in Pacific Partnership 2018, the Asia-Pacific’s largest humanitarian assistance and disaster-relief preparedness mission, which ran from February through June 2018.
caption: U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo welcomed in Kuala Lumpur by U.S. Ambassador Kamala Lakhdhir
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