{"id":1584,"date":"2021-10-22T17:40:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/?post_type=allspeakers&#038;p=1584"},"modified":"2021-10-22T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:40:07","slug":"joseph-m-young","status":"publish","type":"allspeakers","link":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/allspeakers\/joseph-m-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph M. Young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joseph M. Young, a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, joined the U.S. Mission to ASEAN as Charge&nbsp;d\u2019Affaires, ad interim, in&nbsp;October,&nbsp;2021.\u202f He had served as Charg\u00e9&nbsp;d\u2019Affaires, ad interim, at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo from 2019 to 2021,&nbsp;and also&nbsp;as the Embassy\u2019s Deputy Chief of Mission from 2017 to 2019. \u202fFrom 2014 to 2017, he was the Director for Japanese Affairs at the Department of State.\u202f From 2012 to 2014, he served as Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor to U.S. Pacific Command.\u202f Mr. Young also worked as Political-Military Unit Chief at U.S. Embassy Tokyo from 2009 to 2012.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Young\u2019s other assignments&nbsp;include:&nbsp;Political-Economic Section Chief, U.S. Embassy Dublin (2004-2007); Aviation Negotiations Officer in the State Department\u2019s Economics Bureau (2002-2004); Economic Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy Beijing (1999-2002); Economics Researcher at the Foreign Service Institute (1996-1997); Political Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy Nairobi (1994-1996); and, Consular Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy Singapore (1991-1993).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Young holds a master\u2019s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a bachelor\u2019s degree in Classics from Borromeo College. \u202fHe speaks Japanese and Chinese. Mr. Young is married and has three daughters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1585,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-1584","allspeakers","type-allspeakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/allspeakers\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/allspeakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/allspeakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}