Nomination of Alan Lee Keyes To Be United States Representative on the United Nations Economic and Social Council

The President today announced his intention to nominate Alan Lee Keyes, of California, to be the Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. He would succeed Jose S. Sorzano, who is Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations.

Mr. Keyes was a teaching fellow at Harvard University in 1974-1978. In 1978 he was TV-radio news secretary with the Bell for Senate Committee in New Jersey and that same year entered the Foreign Service. In 1979-1980 he was consular officer in Bombay. In the Department he was Zimbabwe desk officer in 1980-1981 and a member of the policy planning staff in 1981-1983. In 1983 he resigned from the Foreign Service.

Mr. Keyes received his B.A. (1972) from Harvard College and his Ph.D. (1979) from Harvard University. His foreign languages are French and Spanish, and some knowledge of Italian and Classical Greek. He was born August 7, 1950, in New York, N.Y.