Hon H Smith Consulate General

Hon Hanscom Smith Consulate General of the United States

Hanscom Smith assumed his duties as the Consul General representing the United States to Hong Kong and Macau in July, 2019.

Mr. Smith is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, most recently acting as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China affairs. Mr. Smith previously served as Consul General in Shanghai and as Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs at the Department of State. He has also served at the United States embassies in Yaounde, Copenhagen, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Kabul, and Beijing. In addition, Mr. Smith worked in the Office of Japanese Affairs at the Department of State, and was team leader at the United States Provincial Reconstruction Team in Muthanna Province, Iraq. He has also worked at the American Institute in Taiwan.

Mr. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Princeton University, and a certificate in political studies from Sciences Po in Paris. In addition, he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Japan. His foreign languages are Mandarin Chinese, French, Danish, a

Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau

The Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau represents the United States in the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions of the People’s Republic of China. It has been located at 26 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong since the late 1950s

U.S. Citizens in need of immediate consular assistance should contact the American Citizen Services Unit at +852-2841-2211 during regular business hours (8:30 am to 5:30 pm Monday-Friday). For deaths, arrests, hospitalizations, or other emergencies involving U.S. citizens outside of these hours, please call +852-2523-9011, press 2 for English and 1 for emergencies to be connected to our after-hours duty officer.  If you are calling from the U.S., please dial 011-852-2523-9011.