Jonathan M. Moore | |
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Coordinator of the Health Incident Response Task Force | |
Assumed office September 30, 2021 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Secretary | Antony Blinken |
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs | |
In office September 8, 2020 – January 20, 2021 | |
President | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Judith G. Garber |
Succeeded by | Marcia Bernicat |
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs | |
In office November 29, 2019 – March 1, 2020 | |
President | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Kevin Moley |
Succeeded by | Pamela D. Pryor |
Personal details | |
Born | 1966 (age 57–58) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. |
Alma mater | American University (B.A.) George Washington University (M.A.) |
Jonathan Michael Moore (born 1966) is an officer of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He is currently the Coordinator of the Health Incident Response Task Force.
In his previous assignment, Ambassador Moore served as Acting Assistant Secretary, Senior Bureau Official, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. He was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs between November 2018 and March 2020.
During his oversease career Moore served as Ambassador and Head of Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Before that he served as Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy to Belarus and as Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. embassies in Namibia, Belarus, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Moore has held fellowships in the Policy Office of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Awards
editMoore has received several awards, including the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award, Superior Honor Award, and Meritorious Honor Award, and the Sinclaire Award for language proficiency.[1] He has been decorated by the presidents of Albania and Lithuania, receiving the Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu medal[2][3], the Order for Merits to Lithuania and Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Fifth Class (Knight’s Cross).[4]
Education
editMoore is a graduate of American University’s School of International Service with a master’s degree from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.
Career
editMoore joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1990 and was assigned to the Embassy in Belgrade in 1991. He was a desk officer for the former Yugoslavia from 1993 to 1995, and was the Political/Economic Section Chief of the U.S. Embassy in Lithuania from 1995 to 1999. He was the Deputy Director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Russian Affairs from 2000 until 2002, serving as Acting Director for several months in early 2002. He then worked as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Namibia from 2002 to 2005.
Moore was a 2005-06 National Security Affairs Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Returning to the Balkans, Moore was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Belarus in 2006-08, and was Chargé d’Affaires there in 2008-09. He was U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009-12.[5]
From 2014 to 2017, Moore was the head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.[6]
After returning to Washington D.C. Moore held several positions, including Senior Advisor for Europe and Eurasia for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from September-November 2018; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from November 2019-March 2020; and Acting Assistant Secretary, Senior Bureau Official, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs from April 2020-November 2021.
In November 2021, Moore was named by Secretary of State Antony Blinken as Coordinator of the Health Incident Response Task Force[7] which coordinates "the Department and interagency’s response to anomalous health incidents for personnel and dependents"[8].
Personal
editIn addition to English, Moore speaks Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, and Lithuanian, and is conversant in Danish, German, and Russian.[9]
References
edit- ^ [1]Official State Department biography
- ^ [2]Dekorata "Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu"
- ^ [3]President of the Republic of Albania, Decree #8815, November 28, 2014
- ^ [4]President of the Republic of Lithuania, Decree July 1, 1999
- ^ [5]Belgrade Security Forum biography
- ^ [6]OSCE Press Release, September 3, 2014
- ^ [7]Secretary Antony J. Blinken On the Department’s Health Incidents Response Task Force
- ^ [8]U.S. State Department Health Incident Response Task Force
- ^ [9]Official State Department biography
External links
edit- Balkanist In Conversation: Outgoing OSCE Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Jonathan Moore