Accordance of the Personal Rank of Ambassador to Lewis A. Dunn While Serving as United States Coordinator and Alternate Representative to the 1985 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

The President today accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to Lewis A. Dunn, of Virginia, in his capacity as coordinator of United States preparations for the 1985 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference and Alternate United States Representative to the Review Conference.

Mr. Dunn is presently an Assistant Director in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he has been serving since 1983. In 1982-1983 he was counselor to Ambassador at Large Richard T. Kennedy, and in 1981-1982 he was Special Assistant for Nuclear Affairs to the Under Secretary of State for Management. Prior to his government service, Mr. Dunn was on the senior professional staff and project leader at Hudson Institute in New York in 1976-1981. In 1974-1976 he was a member of the professional staff at Hudson Institute. In 1971-1974 he was assistant professor of political science at Kenyon College, and in 1969-1971 he was an instructor of political science at Kenyon College.

Mr. Dunn graduated from Cornell University (A.B., 1965) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1973). He was born January 7, 1944, in New York, NY. He is married to the former Roberta Baltz.