Deputy Chief of Mission

Mary Thompson-Jones

MARY THOMPSON-JONES

Mary Thompson-Jones is a Senior Foreign Service Officer. She arrived in Prague in August, 2007.

Her overseas assignments include work as Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer in Madrid; Press Attaché in Prague; a long-term tdy as Press Attaché in Sarajevo; Public Affairs Officer in Montreal; and Counselor for Public Affairs in Guatemala. She has been awarded three Meritorious Honor Awards for her overseas work.

Her Washington D.C. assignments include stints as Deputy Staff Director for the Public Diplomacy Advisory Commission; Senior Press Officer in the Bureau of European Affairs; Deputy Policy Coordinator for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; and Branch Chief for International Educational Advising in the Bureau of educational and Cultural Affairs.

Before joining the Foreign Service she spent eight years as a journalist, primarily as an editorial writer, on daily newspapers including the Glandale News-Press, the Santa Monica Evening Outlook, the Los Angeles Daily News and the Providence Journal.

She holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science from California State University. She has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School, where she won both the Stewart and Gullion Prizes as outstanding first and second year student. She speaks Spanish, French and Czech.

She is married to Harold Y. Jones and is the mother of Andrea, Gareth and Gwyneth.