Joyce Ellen Leader (born 1942) is a former American foreign service officer who served as the American ambassador to Guinea from 1999 to 2000. She succeeded Tibor P. Nagy and was succeeded by R. Barrie Walkley. She is a specialist in African and refugee affairs and is currently a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and was formerly a Senior Fellow at The Fund for Peace, where she authored "Rwanda’s Struggle for Democracy and Peace, 1991–1994". References 1942 births Living people Walsh School of Foreign Service faculty Ambassadors of the United States to Guinea United States Foreign Service personnel American women ambassadors American women academics 20th-century American diplomats 20th-century American women 21st-century American women