Richard Miles (diplomat) explained

Richard Miles
Office:Chargé d'affaires in Kyrgyzstan
President:Barack Obama
Term Start:February 13, 2015
Term End:October 14, 2015
Predecessor:Pamela Spratlen
Successor:Sheila Gwaltney
Office1:Chargé d'affaires in Turkmenistan
President1:George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Term Start1:2008
Term End1:2009
Predecessor1:Richard E. Hoagland
Successor1:Sylvia Reed Curran
Office2:United States Ambassador to Georgia
President2:George W. Bush
Term Start2:May 13, 2002
Term End2:August 12, 2005
Predecessor2:Kenneth Yalowitz
Successor2:John Tefft
Office3:United States Ambassador to Bulgaria
President3:Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Term Start3:September 8, 1999
Term End3:February 28, 2002
Predecessor3:Avis Bohlen
Successor3:James Pardew
Office4:United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan
President4:George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Term Start4:September 16, 1992
Term End4:November 15, 1993
Predecessor4:Robert Finn
Successor4:Richard Kauzlarich
Birth Date:8 January 1937
Birth Place:Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Alma Mater:Bakersfield College
University of California, Berkeley

Richard Monroe Miles (born January 8, 1937) is an American diplomat.

Life

Richard Miles was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 8, 1937.[1] He grew up in rural and small-town Indiana. After serving in the Marine Corps from 1954 to 1957, he obtained degrees from Bakersfield College, the University of California at Berkeley and Indiana University. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Russian Institute, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Miles worked for the South Carolina Voter Education Project from 1964 to 1967 in the field of voter registration and political leadership training.

Foreign service career

He entered the Foreign Service in 1967 and served abroad in Oslo, Belgrade, Moscow, and as Consul General in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), and as Principal Officer of the U.S. Embassy Office in Berlin.

Miles served as Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 1992 to 1993, as Chief of Mission to Serbia-Montenegro from 1996 to 1999, as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1999 to 2002 and as Ambassador to Georgia from 2002 to 2005.

In the State Department, he also worked in the Office for Soviet Affairs and the Office for East European and Yugoslav Affairs and in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.

Ambassador Miles worked for Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) on an American Political Science Fellowship in 1983-1984, and in 1987-1988 he was a fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs.

Miles retired from the State Department in August 2005. From April 2006 until December 2006, he served as Executive Director of the Open World Leadership Center headquartered in the Library of Congress. In November 2008, Ambassador Miles was recalled to active duty to serve as Charge of the American Embassy in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. He returned to Washington, DC, and retirement in September 2009. In February 2015, he was asked to go to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to serve as Charge of the American Embassy there. He returned to Washington and retirement in September 2015.

Miles has been awarded the State Department's Meritorious Honor Award and Group Superior Honor Award (twice). In 1992, he was awarded a Presidential Meritorious Service Award and a national award for reporting. In 2004, he was the recipient of the State Department's Robert C. Frasure Award for peaceful conflict resolution.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: June 17 / Administration of George Bush, 1992 . GPO . 24 September 2022.