Jonathan Raphael Cohen[1] is an American diplomat and most recently served as the United States Ambassador to Egypt from November 17, 2019 to March 31, 2022.

Jonathan and his younger brother Sascha were raised in Northern California, where their father was a colleague of William C. Dement at the Stanford University Center for Sleep Sciences And Medicine.

[10] His senior thesis in Near Eastern Studies was entitled A Last Chance to Brighten the Faint Gleam of Peace: Direct Negotiations, the Arab Option for Regaining Sovereignty on the West Bank.

He was promoted to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, covering Cyprus, Greece and Turkey in August 2016.

During his tenure as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Cohen met with Bartholomew I of Constantinople, and argued before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe that the U.S. should work with Turkey to limit Iranian and Russian influence in the region.