Nomination of Paul Dundes Wolfowitz To Be United States Ambassador to Indonesia

The President today announced his intention to nominate Paul Dundes Wolfowitz to be Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Indonesia. He would succeed John Herbert Holdridge.

Mr. Wolfowitz has been Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs since 1982. Prior to that time, he was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was assigned in January 1981. From 1980 to 1981, he was visiting associate professor and director of security studies at the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He has served in the Government in various capacities: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Regional Programs), 1977-1980; Special Assistant for SALT, Office of the Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1976-1977; Deputy Assistant Director, Verification and Analysis Bureau, ACDA, 1976; Special Assistant to the Director of ACDA, 1974-1975; professional staff member, Evaluation and Policy Division, Plans and Analysis Bureau, ACDA, 1973-1974; and management intern, U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 1966-1967. In 1970-1973 Mr. Wolfowitz was assistant professor of political science at Yale University in New Haven, CT.

Mr. Wolfowitz graduated from Cornell University (A.B., 1965) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1970). His foreign languages are French and Hebrew. He was born December 22, 1943, in New York. He is married to the former Clare Selgin, and they have two children.