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Douglas Jones
Assistant Secretary General - Political Affairs and Security Policy
Aug 2026 - Present
Aug 2026 - Present
Douglas Jones became Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy in August 2026. He leads the team responsible for political affairs within the Alliance and NATO’s relationships with countries and international organisations globally.
Before joining the NATO International staff, he had a 34-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service serving in senior diplomatic positions in Washington, DC, throughout Europe and the Middle East, and on the staff of the National Security Council.
Most recently, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and as the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. In 2021, he served as Chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Mission to NATO and was the U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO from 2018 to 2021. He served two other assignments as a Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. embassies in Croatia and Montenegro. Previous domestic assignments included Director of the Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions and Counterterrorism in the U.S. State Department, Director for NATO and Western Europe at the National Security Council, and 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, Dublin, and Tel Aviv.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and a master’s degree in international relations from Princeton University.