Appointment of Eugene K. Lawson as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation

The President today announced his intention to appoint Eugene K. Lawson to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency. He would succeed George R. Salem.

Since 1988 Mr. Lawson has served as Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Labor. Prior to this he was executive director of Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc., 1984-1988. From 1982 to 1984, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for East Asia and the Pacific, and from 1981 to 1982, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for East-West Trade.

Mr. Lawson graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1961); Columbia University (M.A., 1967; Ph.D., 1982). He was born December 10, 1939, in Tulsa, OK. From 1961 to 1963, Mr. Lawson served in the U.S. Navy. He is married, has three children, and resides in Washington, DC.