President Donald Trump has nominated Sullivan & Cromwell Hong Kong partner Michael DeSombre to be the next U.S. ambassador to Thailand.

If confirmed by the Senate, DeSombre will succeed Glyn Davies, who was confirmed in 2015 during the Obama administration and left the post in September 2018. DeSombre, 51,  would be the first political appointee since 1975 to serve as the top U.S. envoy to Bangkok. More than a dozen of his predecessors, including Davies, were all career diplomats.