Phillip Carter III (born 1959) is a Senior Foreign Service American diplomat and was United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast from 2010 to 2013.

Ambassador to the Republic of Ivory Coast, Carter served as a Senior Advisor to the Africa Bureau and previously as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from 2008 to 2010.

He also was as the Africa Bureau’s Acting Assistant Secretary during the transition between the Bush and Obama Administrations.

From 1992-1994, he served as the Economic and Commercial Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

[3] Carter received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and history from Drew University in 1980, and a Master of Arts Degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University in 1995.