Ambassador Stuart Jones

Stuart E. Jones currently serves as the Vice President for the Cohen Group.  A career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East Affairs Bureau from October 2016 until August 2017. Jones previously served as US Ambassador to Iraq from 2014-2016 and as Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 2011-2014.

Ambassador Jones has extensive experience in Iraq. He was Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Baghdad in 2010-2011, Governorate Coordinator in Al Anbar Province in 2004, and Country Director for Iraq at the National Security Council.

From 2008-2010, Ambassador Jones also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. Other foreign tours include Turkey, El Salvador and Colombia and he was special assistant to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright.

 Ambassador Jones is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.