Draft:Douglas D. Jones

Douglas D. Jones is an American diplomat who is the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Education
Jones holds a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College and a master's degree in international relations from Princeton University.

Career
Jones is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister-counselor. He has served as a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. He oversees European security, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and Northern Europe, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as Arctic security. Most recently, Jones served as chargé d'affaires ad interim and deputy chief of mission at the United States Mission to NATO. He served two other assignments as deputy chief of mission at U.S. embassies in Zagreb, Croatia and Podgorica, Montenegro. His previous domestic assignments include director of the Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions, and Counterterrorism in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, director for NATO and Western Europe at the National Security Council, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in New York. Overseas he also served as senior civilian representative at the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and at U.S. embassies in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Dublin, Ireland; and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Nomination as U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
On July 11, 2024, President Joe Biden nominated Jones to serve as the next United States ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. His nomination is pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.