Jon Huntsman Jr.

Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. Huntsman is a member of the Republican Party. Huntsman has served three times as an ambassador of the United States: 1992–1993 as ambassador to Singapore, 2009–2011 as ambassador to China, and 2017–2019 as ambassador to Russia.
Huntsman served in every presidential administration from the presidency of Ronald Reagan to the first Donald Trump administration. He began his career as a White House staff assistant for Ronald Reagan, and was appointed deputy assistant secretary of commerce and U.S. ambassador to Singapore by George H. W. Bush. Later as deputy U.S. trade representative under George W. Bush, he launched global trade negotiations in Doha in 2001 and guided the accession of China into the World Trade Organization. He was CEO of Huntsman Family Holdings, a private entity which held the family's stock in Huntsman Corporation. He was a board member of Huntsman Corporation, and chaired the Huntsman Cancer Foundation.