US President Joe Biden announced his proposal for the new ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina - Douglas Jones. His official biography suggests he is a diplomat with rich experience, who served with missions in NATO, Croatia and Montenegro, but he also had an earlier engagement in Sarajevo as well, the Voice of America reports.

Douglas D. Jones, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, currently serves as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

He oversees European security, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Northern Europe, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as Arctic security. Most recently, Jones served as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to NATO.

He served two other assignments as Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. Embassies in Zagreb, Croatia and Podgorica, Montenegro.

His previous domestic assignments include Director of the Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions, and Counterterrorism in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Director for NATO and Western Europe at the National Security Council, and as a 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, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Dublin, Ireland; and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Jones holds a Bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Princeton University. He is the recipient of a Presidential Meritorious Rank Award. In his biography, he listed his foreign languages as Hebrew and ‘Serbo-Croatian’.

“Congratulations to Doug Jones! We came into the U.S. diplomatic corps together and we have been good friends and colleagues for 33 years. He knows the Western Balkans and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and if he is confirmed by the Senate, will make an outstanding American ambassador,” the incumbent ambassador Michael J. Murphy wrote on X.