Nomination of Robert J. Ryan, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador to Mali

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert J. Ryan, Jr., of the District of Columbia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Mall. He would succeed Parker W. Borg.

In 1960 Mr. Ryan entered government service with the Department of State. He was consular officer in Ponta Delgada (1961-1963) and assistant commercial attaché in Rio de Janeiro (1964-1966). He attended economic training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1966 to 1967. From 1967 to 1969, he was an economic officer in Pretoria and was a member of the National Security Council at the White House from 1969 to 1971. He was economic officer in Paris (1971-1973) and counselor for economic and commercial affairs in Rabat (1973-1974). In the Department he was Director of the Office of Monetary Affairs in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs from 1974 to 1977, and a member of the executive seminar in national and international affairs at the Foreign Service Institute from 1977 to 1978. From 1979 to 1981, he was Deputy Representative to the United States Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. In the Department he was Director of the Office of Regional Economic Policy (1981-1982) and Deputy to the Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, and Coordinator of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (1983). Since 1984 he has attended refresher language courses at the Foreign Service Institute.

Mr. Ryan received his B.A. (1960) from Johns Hopkins University and his M.A. (1967) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He attended George Washington University from 1960 to 1961. His foreign languages are French and Portuguese. He was born August 11, 1939, in Washington, DC.