Ambassador Beth Jones is a Foreign Service Officer with the personal rank of Career Ambassador who is serving in India as Chargé d’Affaires for the United States.  She was Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia and later for the Near East.  Her overseas postings included Kabul, Cairo, Amman, Baghdad, Islamabad, West Berlin and Bonn.  She has worked in the private sector and has served on the boards of several American non-profit organizations.