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''Deborah K. Jones'' is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as United States Ambassador to Libya. She is a member of [http://www.mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. | ''Deborah K. Jones'' is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as United States Ambassador to Libya. She is a member of [http://www.mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. | ||
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Prior to her service in Libya, Jones served for eight months as Scholar-in-Residence at the Middle East Institute. She has also served as Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey, and Senior Faculty Adviser for National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She has filled other oversees assignments in Argentina, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. | Prior to her service in Libya, Jones served for eight months as Scholar-in-Residence at the Middle East Institute. She has also served as Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey, and Senior Faculty Adviser for National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She has filled other oversees assignments in Argentina, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. | ||
Revision as of 14:59, 24 January 2014
Deborah K. Jones is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as United States Ambassador to Libya. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Prior to her service in Libya, Jones served for eight months as Scholar-in-Residence at the Middle East Institute. She has also served as Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey, and Senior Faculty Adviser for National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She has filled other oversees assignments in Argentina, Iraq, Tunisia, Syria, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.
She has filled other assignments with the State Department in Washington, D.C., including Secretariat’s Seventh Floor Operations Center, Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Near East and South Asian Affairs, Acting Public Affairs Adviser to the Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs, Jordan Desk Officer, Director of the Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs and Iran, and the Board of Examiners.
Jones was raised in New Mexico and earned a BA in history from Brigham Young University. She then earned an MS in National Security Strategy from the National War College of the National Defense University. She studied Arabic at the Foreign Service Institute in Roslyn, Virginia, and at the State Department’s Field School in Tunis, Tunisia.
She is married to Richard G. Olson, U.S. Foreign Service Officer and currently Ambassador to Pakistan. They have two daughters.
