Recess Appointment of James Daniel Phillips as United States Alternate Representative to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The President today granted a recess appointment to James Daniel Phillips to be the Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

He is currently serving as Office Director for Communications and UNESCO Affairs at the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. Mr. Phillips entered the Foreign Service in 1961 and has served in France, Zaire, Luxembourg, and Gambia as well as in the Department of State in Washington. In 1980 he served as a political adviser and member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Women in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He graduated from the University of Kansas at Wichita (B.A., 1957; M.A., 1958). His foreign languages are French and German. He resides in Washington, D.C., and was born February 23, 1933.