Addleton, Jonathan S. (Jonathan Stuart), 1957-

<p>Jonathan S. Addleton is an American author and diplomat. He is best known as the 8th United States Ambassador to Mongolia.</p>

<p> Jonathan S. Addleton was born on June 27, 1957, in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan, in the family of Baptist missionaries H. F. Addleton and Bettie Rose (Simmons) Addleton.</p>

<p>Addleton attended the Murree Christian School, located near the Murree hills of Rawalpindi District, Punjab province. In 1979, he received his Master of Science degree from Northwestern University. Addleton later earned his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, in 1984 and 1991 respectively.</p>

<p>At the beginning of his career, Addleton worked for World Bank and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both in Washington. Addleton served at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the position of a program director in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 1985 to 1989, in Sanaa, Yemen, from 1989 to 1991, as well as in Pretoria, South Africa, from 1991 to 1993, in Almaty, Kazakstan, for three years from 1993, and in Amman, Jordan from 1997. Addleton was the United States Agency for International Development mission director in Mongolia for three years from 2001.</p>

<p>His mostly known working position was as the 8th United States Ambassador to Mongolia from 2009 to 2012. After that, he headed the USAID missions in Cambodia from 2004 till 2006, as well as in Pakistan for a year from 2006.</p>

<p>Addleton was the Counselor for International Development at the United States Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, when President Barack Obama nominated him to be ambassador to Mongolia.</p>

<p>In addition, he was a reporter at The Macon Telegraph.</p>

<p>After his retirement from the Foreign Service in January 2017, Addleton has served as an Adjunct in the Department of International and Global Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He also began to hold a part-time position as the United States-based Executive Director of the American Center for Mongolian Studies.</p>

<p>Addleton's writings include such titles as <i>Some Far and Distant Place</i>, <i>Undermining the Centre: The Gulf Migration and Pakistan</i>, and <i>Mongolia and the United States: A Diplomatic History</i>. His major work of creative writing <i>Some Far and Distant Place</i> is a memoir covering his growing-up years as the child of missionary parents from rural Georgia, who worked in a relatively remote area of Pakistan. He also published a book that analyzes the economic and political consequences of international migration. In addition, Addleton is a contributor to periodicals, including <i>Asian Survey</i>, <i>Muslim World</i>, <i>Migration</i>, <i>Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies</i>, and <i>Pakistan Manpower Review</i>.</p>

<p>Jonathan S. Addleton (born 1957) is an American diplomat and author. He served as the 8th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from 2009 to 2012.</p>

<p>Addleton was born in Pakistan, the son of Baptist missionaries from rural Georgia. He spent his early years with his parents in Upper Sind then attended the Murree Christian School, located at an old British Himalayan hill station near the tiny crossroads town of Jhika Gali in the Murree hills of Rawalpindi District, Punjab province.</p>

<p>He went on to attend college at Northwestern University, where he received his bachelor's in journalism. He later earned his MA and PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. As an undergraduate he was an intern and then a reporter at The Macon Telegraph. He worked briefly at the World Bank and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before joining the Foreign Service in 1984. His first assignments were as USAID Program Officer in Jordan, Kazakhstan, South Africa, and Yemen. Addleton retired from the Foreign Service on January 20, 2017.</p>

<p>From 2001–2004 Addleton was USAID mission director in Mongolia. He then headed USAID missions in Cambodia (2004–2006), Pakistan (2006–2007), Central Asia (Kazakhstan) (2013–2015) and India (2015–2017). He also was seconded to the Department of State to serve as Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) to southern Afghanistan based in Kandahar (2012–2013). Addleton was Counselor for International Development at the US Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium (2007–2009), when President Barack Obama nominated him to be ambassador to Mongolia.</p>

<p>On April 6, 2013 Addleton was part of a group targeted by a suicide bomber as they walked to a local school to deliver textbooks in the Afghan city of Qalat. A suicide bomber's car exploded just outside the walls of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul killing Foreign Service Officer Anne Smedinghoff, three U.S. service members and an Afghan interpreter. An Army report of the incident later noted that [Addleton] "may have been the main target, although insurgents were perhaps targeting anyone partaking in the mission." Addleton later wrote "Not a day goes by when I don't relive what happened on that cloudless morning, recalling every moment as it unfolded, reliving endlessly what might have been. I wish a dust storm had blown up out of nowhere, causing all flights to be canceled. I wish the outcome had been different. I wish I had been killed instead. But I somehow did survive, alone among the living."</p>

<p>Following his retirement from the Foreign Service in January 2017, Addleton has worked as an Adjunct in the Department of International and Global Studies at Mercer University in his hometown of Macon, GA. He also took on a new assignment as the part-time, US-based Executive Director of the American Center for Mongolian Studies.</p>

<p>His publishing credits include a memoir of his childhood in Pakistan, <i>Some Far and Distant Place</i> (University of Georgia Press, 1997), <i>Undermining the Centre: The Gulf Migration and Pakistan</i> (Oxford University Press, 1992), <i>Mongolia and the United States: A Diplomatic History</i> (Hong Kong University Press, 2013) and "The Dust of Kandahar: A Diplomat Among Warriors in Afghanistan" (Naval Institute Press, 2016). He has also contributed articles to <i>Asian Survey</i>, <i>Asian Affairs</i>, <i>International Migration</i>, <i>Muslim World</i>, <i>Mongolica</i>, <i>Foreign Service Journal</i>, and <i>The Washington Post</i>, among other publications.</p>

<p>Addleton's awards include the Christian A. Herter Award for intellectual courage and constructive dissent from the American Foreign Service Association; ISAF Service Medal from NATO; Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the US Department of Army; Administrator's Distinguished Career Service Award, Distinguished Honor Award, Superior Honor Award and Presidential Meritorious Service Award from USAID; and the Polar Star, Mongolia's highest civilian award, from the President of Mongolia. Early in his career, he was invited to serve as a Breadloaf Fellow at MIddlebury College's annual Summer Writer's Conference near Middlebury, Vermont. In May 2017, Addleton was one of six alumni inducted into Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism "Hall of Achievement," a group that included Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize winning editor Bruce Dold and Edith Chapin, Executive Editor of NPR News.</p>

<p>He speaks Urdu and Hindi and has studied French, Russian, Arabic and Mongolian.</p>