Accordance of the Personal Rank of Ambassador to Joseph F. Salgado While Serving as United States Representative to the 32d General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency

The President today accorded Joseph F. Salgado the personal rank of Ambassador in his capacity as the United States Representative to the 32d Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Mr. Salgado is presently Deputy Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy in Washington, DC. He has also served as Under Secretary of Energy, 1985-1988. He chairs the innovative control technology advisory panel for the President's clean coal initiative and the Energy Systems Acquisition Board. He is also chairman of the interagency committee on nuclear weapons complex modernization study. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Salgado was an Associate Director of Presidential Personnel at the White House. From 1982 to 1983, he served as the Associate Commissioner for Enforcement at the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice. Before joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Salgado was a deputy district attorney and senior trial attorney for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office in CA, 1973-1981. From 1966 to 1973, he served with the Oakland Police Department.

Mr. Salgado graduated from the University of San Francisco (B.S., 1968), and San Francisco Law School (J.D., 1972). He was born January 10, 1943, and resides in Alexandria, VA.