As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Terence Todman served in several positions in the U.S. Department of State including as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Ambassador to Argentina. Ambassador to Denmark, Ambassador to Spain, Ambassador to Costa Rica, Ambassador to Guinea, Ambassador to Chad and Charge d'Affaires in Togo. He also served in Tunisia, Lebanon and India. He holds the rank and title of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service.

After retiring from the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Todman was President of Todman & Associates. an international consulting firm. He was also a special advisor to the Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands and a consultant to various U. S. and Argentine companies. He was on the Accountability Review Board that investigated the terrorist bombings of the U.S embassies in East Africa. He served recently as the OAS Special Envoy to Haiti. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council of Foreign Relations.

Before joining the Department of State, Ambassador Todman served in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1949 as a commissioned officer in Japan. He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the U.S. Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Ambassador Todman was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the Inter-American University in Puerto Rico and his M.P. A. from Syracuse University. He holds several honorary doctorate degrees. He was a Trustee of the University of the Virgin Islands and served on various advisory boards at Duke, Georgetown and Syracuse universities.