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Richard Miles (diplomat)

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Richard Miles
Chargé d'affaires in Kyrgyzstan
In office
February 13, 2015 – October 14, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byPamela Spratlen
Succeeded bySheila Gwaltney
Chargé d'affaires in Turkmenistan
In office
2008–2009
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded byRichard E. Hoagland
Succeeded bySylvia Reed Curran
United States Ambassador to Georgia
In office
May 13, 2002 – August 12, 2005
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byKenneth Yalowitz
Succeeded byJohn Tefft
United States Ambassador to Bulgaria
In office
September 8, 1999 – February 28, 2002
PresidentBill Clinton
George W. Bush
Preceded byAvis Bohlen
Succeeded byJames Pardew
United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan
In office
September 16, 1992 – November 15, 1993
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Preceded byRobert Finn
Succeeded byRichard Kauzlarich
Personal details
Born (1937-01-08) January 8, 1937 (age 87)
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Alma materBakersfield College
University of California, Berkeley
Indiana University, Bloomington

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

Life

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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

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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.

References

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  1. ^ "June 17 / Administration of George Bush, 1992" (PDF). GPO. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan
1992–1993
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Bulgaria
1999–2002
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Georgia
2002–2005
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
Acting

2015
Succeeded by