America’s diplomatic corps has a “much better” track record of diversity than most U.S. institutions, according to a newly appointed senior State Department official.

“Most institutions in the United States are not where we would want them to be in terms of diversity,” Kiron Skinner, who took over in September as the director of policy planning, told the Washington Examiner in a recent interview. “But given some the trends in the U.S. against diversity — especially racial diversity — the State Department is doing much better.”