CIC Montreal: Alternative North Americas

The Canadian International Council in Montreal is pleased to invite you to an intimate discussion with former American diplomat David T. Jones on North America's role in global affairs. A cocktail reception (cash bar) will follow.

Speaker's biography

David T. Jones is a retired U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer (State Department diplomat) who served as Political Minister Counselor in the U.S. Ottawa Embassy (1992-96).

Throughout his career, Mr. Jones was primarily a specialist in politicomilitary and arms control issues. He was Special Assistant to Ambassador Maynard Glitman for Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) at the Nuclear and Space Talks in 1987, following responsibility for INF as the Deputy Office Director in the Politicomilitary Bureau’s Office of Theater and Military Policy (1985-87). Subsequently, he was State Department Deputy for the INF Treaty Ratification Task Force. In other Foreign Service assignments, Mr. Jones served as the foreign affairs advisor (POLAD) to two Army Chiefs of Staff (authoring The Future of POLADS in the 21st Century in 2009 under a Cox Foundation grant). Earlier, he had assignments at the U.S. Mission to NATO (1976-80), as the Cyprus and Greek Desk directors and a member of the Greek Base Negotiating team (1980-84).

Over the past decade, he has edited the annual State Department Human Rights Report, coauthored an analysis of the Clinton administration Middle East Peace Process for the State Department Historian, and written hundreds of columns and articles on Canada-U.S. relations (See Hill Times, Ottawa Citizen, Embassy, Metropolitain, Policy Options, etc), also coauthored Uneasy Neighbo(u)rs addressing U.S.-Canada relations with David Kilgour. Currently, he is collaborating with Mr. Kilgour in a twice-monthly “David vs David” Yahoo blog. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the signing of the INF Treaty, he coauthored/edited The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough: The Treaty Eliminating Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Missiles (2012, New Academia Publications).

Mr. Jones is married to Teresa Chin Jones, also a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer, who served in the U.S. consulate in Montreal 1992-94. They have three adult children.