Jonathan Addleton

Jonathan S. Addleton


8th United States Ambassador to Mongolia
In office November 25, 2009 – August 1, 2012
Preceded by	Mark C. Minton
Succeeded by	Piper Campbell
Personal details
Born	1957 (age 59–60)

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

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.

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.