The US Senate has confirmed the nomination of Earl Robert Miller as the new US ambassador to Bangladesh.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nomination on October 11. US President Donald Trump announced Miller's nomination on July 17.

Miller will succeed incumbent Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, who became the US ambassador to Bangladesh on February 4, 2015.

Earl Miller, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, served as the US ambassador to Botswana prior to his nomination to Bangladesh. He is expected to arrive in Dhaka next month to take up his new diplomatic assignment.

On arrival in Dhaka, the ambassador-designate will present his credentials to President Abdul Hamid, according to a Facebook statement of the US embassy yesterday.