Baxter Hunt

James Baxter Hunt III is the U.S. Consul General in Toronto, Canada, effective October 2023.

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Hunt served as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Santiago, Chile from January 2019 until August 10, 2020, when Richard Glenn assumed duties. Before that, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Santiago (since August, 2017) and Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of State.

Hunt was a Presidential Management Intern working in the State Department, the Department of Defense and the National Security Council before entering the Foreign Service. He also served abroad in the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan; the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada; the U.S. Consulate General in Durban, South Africa; and the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.

He is the son of former North Carolina governor James Baxter Hunt, Jr. and Carolyn Hunt.

Education

 * M.P.A., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
 * B.A., University of North Carolina