Anita Goyle

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Featured in Mass Effect: Revelation, Anita Goyle was the first human ambassador to the Citadel. Goyle took her job extremely seriously, well aware that she was representing humanity as a whole to the Citadel races. She met with David Anderson when he returned from Sidon and revealed that the facility had been secretly researching artificial intelligence. She told him to discreetly track down the source without drawing attention of the Spectres.

When the truth about Sidon was leaked to the Council, they planned to impose heavy sanctions on the Alliance, but during the audience Goyle realised that the Council was actually concerned about humanity's very rapid expansion and was seizing this opportunity to keep them under control. She gave a passionate speech, describing how humans had become swiftly integrated into Citadel society, the galactic economy, and even C-Sec itself. Goyle also pointed out that without facilities like Sidon, it would be impossible to understand synthetic intelligence - leaving them vulnerable in the future when dealing with races like the geth - and that it was naive to think humanity was the only species doing AI research. She refused to accept the heavy penalties the Council proposed and negotiated a better deal.

"There were some things humanity was not yet ready to face." -- spoilers for ME: Revelation follow.

After Kahlee Sanders revealed Dr. Shu Qian's involvement in the events at Sidon, Goyle decided to reveal the recovered files and information to the Council willingly, as a show of good faith. Once the Council had agreed to pursue Edan Had'dah and find Qian, by sending Saren Arterius to track him down, Goyle asked for Anderson to be sent along too as a possible Spectre candidate. She was surprised by the sudden acquiescence of the asari councillor, only realising later that the Council had anticipated all her requests and discussed them in advance, subtly showing that she still had a lot to learn about galactic politics.

Goyle was not particularly happy when Saren filed a report that Anderson had ruined the mission on Camala, costing hundreds of lives, but she was not looking to make an example of Anderson to save face for humanity, and let him return to his military career.

Anita Goyle was eventually succeeded by Donnel Udina.