Douglas D. Jones is a nonresident senior fellow in the Transatlantic Security Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is a senior diplomat and national security expert, with a thirty-four-year career in the US Foreign Service, having served in senior diplomatic positions in Washington, DC, throughout Europe and the Middle East, and on the staff of the National Security Council. 

From 2021 to 2024, Jones served as deputy assistant secretary of state for European Affairs with responsibilities for European security, including NATO and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Northern Europe (including the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Nordic and Baltic countries), and Arctic security. He also served as the acting principal deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs in 2023, where he coordinated policy recommendations for the secretary of state and other senior US government leaders and oversaw the work of seventy-one diplomatic posts in forty-six countries throughout Europe. Prior to retiring from government service, Jones was nominated in July 2024 to serve as the US ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

In 2021, Jones served as chargé d’affaires (acting ambassador) at the US Mission to NATO for eight months, guiding US engagement before the 2021 NATO Summit. He was the deputy chief of mission and deputy permanent representative to NATO from 2018 to 2021. He served two other assignments as a deputy chief of mission at US embassies in Croatia and Montenegro. His previous domestic assignments included director of the Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions and Counterterrorism in the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs, director for NATO and Western Europe at the National Security Council, and member of the US 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 US embassies in Sarajevo, Dublin, and Tel Aviv. 

Jones is the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award and numerous Department of State awards. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and a master’s degree in international relations from Princeton University.