Nomination of Alan M. Hardy To Be United States Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea

The President today announced his intention to nominate Alan M. Hardy, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. He would succeed Hume A. Horan.

Mr. Hardy entered the Foreign Service in 1956 as intelligence research specialist in the Department of State. He served in the United States Army in 1957-59. He was consular officer in Toronto (1959-61), administrative officer in Tananarive (1961-63), consular officer and economic officer in Milan (1963-65), and economic officer in Mogadishu (1965-67). In 1967-68 he was country officer for Nigeria in the Department. He attended African area studies at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1968-69. In the Department he was foreign affairs political analyst (1969-71) and country officer for Kenya and Tanzania (1971-73). From 1973 to 1975, he was political officer in Dakar. He attended Hungarian language training at the Foreign Service Institute in 1975-76. He was political officer in Budapest in 1976-78. In the Department he was personnel officer in 1978-79, and since 1979, he has been country officer for Mozambique and Namibia.

Mr. Hardy graduated from the University of Cincinnati (B.A., 1959) and the University of California at Los Angeles (M.A., 1969). He is married, has six children, and resides in Arlington, Va. He was born May 26, 1934, in Orange, N.J.