Richard Miles (diplomat)

Richard Miles
Richard Miles
Chargé d'affaires in Kyrgyzstan
	In office; February 13, 2015 – October 14, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Pamela Spratlen
Succeeded by	Sheila Gwaltney
Chargé d'affaires in Turkmenistan
	In office; 2008–2009
President	George W. Bush; Barack Obama
Preceded by	Richard E. Hoagland
Succeeded by	Sylvia Reed Curran
United States Ambassador to Georgia
	In office; May 13, 2002 – August 12, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Kenneth Yalowitz
Succeeded by	John Tefft
United States Ambassador to Bulgaria
	In office; September 8, 1999 – February 28, 2002
President	Bill Clinton; George W. Bush
Preceded by	Avis Bohlen
Succeeded by	James Pardew
United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan
	In office; September 16, 1992 – November 15, 1993
President	George H. W. Bush; Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Robert Finn
Succeeded by	Richard Kauzlarich
Personal details
Born	1937 (age 82–83); Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Alma mater	Bakersfield College; University of California, Berkeley; Indiana University, Bloomington

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

Life

Richard Miles was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. 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.

He 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.

"Dick" 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.

He 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.

Ambassador 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.

Ambassador Miles married the former Sharon Alice O'Brien in 1960. The couple have two children: Richard Lee Miles was a Police Officer in Richmond, Virginia for many years. Elizabeth Anne Miles-Masci is a freelance editor and lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

gollark: Sure, I guess; I don't get much value out of systemd having *persistent* journals for each service.

gollark: Also, if you don't drop old stdout eventually won't you run into memory issues?

gollark: EVERY DAEMON is meant to do logging? Uncool.

gollark: Although I don't know how you could get that without overintegrating with a log system in some way.

gollark: One really nice thing it can do is show the last few lines of stdout/err in `systemctl status`.

References

www.adst.org (oral history memoirs)

External links

Appearances on C-SPAN

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Robert Finn	United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan 1992–1993	Succeeded by Richard Kauzlarich
Preceded by Avis Bohlen	United States Ambassador to Bulgaria 1999–2002	Succeeded by James Pardew
Preceded by Kenneth Yalowitz	United States Ambassador to Georgia 2002–2005	Succeeded by John Tefft
Preceded by Pamela Spratlen	United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Acting 2015	Succeeded by Sheila Gwaltney

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