R. Grant Smith

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R. Grant Smith (born 1939) [1] is an American diplomat and previous United States Ambassador to Tajikistan. Smith, originally from New Jersey, served in the foreign service in India and Nepal and was Deputy Ambassador of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. He also served as Director of the South Asia Office at the U.S. State Department.

Smith entered the Foreign Service in 1963 and went on to serve overseas in Pakistan, Nepal, Belize, India, the Central African Republic, and Tajikistan. [2]

He is a senior fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

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References

  1. "R. Grant Smith - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  2. "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR R. GRANT SMITH" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 5 March 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Tajikistan
1995–1998
Succeeded by