Deputy Chief of Mission

Jonathan M. Moore

Jonathan M. Moore, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, first became a U.S. diplomat in 1990 and was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade in 1991. He was a desk officer for the former Yugoslavia in the State Department from 1993 to 1995, and was the Political/Economic Section Chief of the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania from 1995 to 1999.  He also worked for three months as the Executive Assistant to the Head of the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the first post-Dayton elections in 1996.

After a one-year assignment as a Congressional Fellow in the Policy Office of Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Mr. Moore was the Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of Russian Affairs from 2000 until 2002, serving also as that office’s Acting Director for several months in early 2002. He then worked as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Windhoek, Namibia from 2002 to 2005. Mr. Moore was a 2005-06 National Security Affairs Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution prior to his most recent assignment as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Minsk, Belarus.  He was the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires  in Belarus from March 2008 until July 2009.

Mr. Moore and his wife have two daughters. He received a B.A. in International Studies from The American University’s School of International Service in 1988, and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University in 1990.  Mr. Moore has received a Distinguished Honor Award and several Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards from the U.S. State Department, two awards for language proficiency from the American Foreign Service Association, and has been decorated with both the Order of Merit and Order of Grand Duke Gediminas by the President of Lithuania. In addition to the languages spoken in BiH, Mr. Moore speaks Lithuanian, Russian, German, and Danish.