Irwin Belk
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Alternate Representative to the U.S. General Assembly of the United Nations. Irwin Belk of North Carolina is serving as an alternate representative to the U.S. General Assembly of the United Nations. Mr. Belk is president of the Belk Group and the Irwin Belk Educational Foundation. Mr. Belk served on the North Carolina Democratic Committee and for several years as a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1959 to 1962, then as state senator from 1963 to 1966. He served in the Air Force during World War II. He and his wife, the former Carol Grotnes, have four children.
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J.D. Bindenagel
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Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. J.D. Bindenagel, a career Foreign Service officer, is the new special envoy for Holocaust Issues. Mr. Bindenagel joined the Foreign Service in 1975 and was posted in Korea, Germany and Washington, D.C. He served as deputy chief of mission in Germany from 1989 to 1990. In 1991, he became director of the Office of Emerging Countries in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, then in 1992 director for Central European Affairs until 1994. He then took assignments with the German Marshall Fund, the office of the under secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, and the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets. He and his wife, the former Jean K. Lundfelt, have two children.
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Avis T. Bohlen
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Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control. Avis T. Bohlen, a career Foreign Service officer, is the new assistant secretary of State for Arms Control. Ms. Bohlen began her Foreign Service career in 1977, and she has served in various European and domestic posts. She served as executive director of the U.S. Delegation to Nuclear and Space Talks in Geneva and as director in the Office of Western European Affairs and the Office of European Regional and Security Affairs. Ms. Bohlen became deputy assistant secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs in 1989 where she served until 1991. She then served as deputy chief of mission in Paris until 1995, and most recently as ambassador to Bulgaria. Ms. Bohlen is married to David Calleo.
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Carol Moseley Braun
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U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. Carol Moseley Braun is the new U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. Ms. Braun began her career as an assistant U.S. attorney in civil litigation. In 1978, she was elected to the Illinois General Assembly and became assistant majority leader. Ms. Braun was the first woman in the state of Illinois to be elected to the U.S. Senate and was the sole African-American in the Senate from 1992 to 1998. Ms. Braun served on the Senate Finance Committee and Judiciary Committee, among other committee assignments.
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James B. Cunningham
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Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. James B. Cunningham of Pennsylvania, a career Foreign Service officer, is the new deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. He joined the Foreign Service in 1975 and has served in Stockholm, Rome, Brussels and Washington, D.C. In 1988, he was appointed deputy and later chief of staff to the U.S. Mission to NATO. He served there until 1990 when he became the deputy counselor for Political Affairs in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He returned to Washington, D.C., in 1992 as deputy and then director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs. Mr. Cunningham most recently served as deputy chief of mission in Rome from 1996-1999. He and his wife, Leslie Genier, have two children.
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Craig Gordon Dunkerley
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Special Envoy for Conventional Forces in Europe. Craig Gordon Dunkerley of Massachusetts, a member of the Senior Foreign Service, is the new special envoy of the Secretary of State for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Mr. Dunkerley joined the Foreign Service in 1971 and has served in Vietnam, Japan, Belgium, Austria and Washington, D.C. In 1981, he was named an international affairs fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. Mr. Dunkerley served at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels and in 1992 was named deputy head of the U.S. Delegation to the Vienna-based Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. In 1995, he became director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs in Washington, D.C. His wife, Patricia Haigh, is a former Foreign Service officer.
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Anthony S. Harrington
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U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Anthony S. Harrington of North Carolina is the new U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Mr. Harrington was a senior partner of Hogan & Hartson, a law firm based in Washington, D.C. He chaired the President's Intelligence Oversight Board, served as vice chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and was a member of the congressionally created Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Mr. Harrington previously directed the Center for Democracy and served on the advisory board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies for Diplomacy in the Information Age Project.
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Donald S. Hays
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U.S. Representative to the United Nations for U.N.Management and Reform with ambassadorial rank. Donald S. Hays, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, is the new U.S. Representative to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform. Mr. Hays joined the Foreign Service in 1973 and served in Vietnam and Russia. He served as deputy chief of mission in Sierra Leone from 1978 to 1980, then returned to Washington, D.C., as executive director in the Office of Medical Services. Mr. Hays later served in Senegal, Germany and Pakistan. He returned to Washington, D.C., as executive director in the Bureau of European Affairs from 1996 to 1998, and most recently as director for the Office of Management Policy and Planning. Mr. Hays and his wife have two children.
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David H. Kaeuper
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U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Congo. David H. Kaeuper, a career Senior Foreign Service officer, is the new U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Congo. Mr. Kaeuper began his Foreign Service career in 1971 and has served in the Philippines, Burundi, France, Nigeria and Washington, D.C. He served as deputy chief of mission in Gabon from 1984 to 1986 and later as deputy director for the Office of East African Affairs in Washington, D.C. His most recent assignment was as director of the Office of African Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He and his wife, Brenda Bowman, have one child.
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Alan P. Larson
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Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs. Alan P. Larson, a career Foreign Service officer, is the new under secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs. Mr. Larson began his career in the early 1970s, serving in Sierra Leone and Zaire. In 1978, he returned to Washington, D.C., as deputy director of the Energy Policy Office. He then served in Jamaica and in Washington, D.C., where he became deputy assistant secretary of State for International Energy and Resources Policy and then principal deputy secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. In 1990, he became U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, returning to Washington, D.C., in 1994 as principal deputy assistant secretary of State for International Finance and Development. He most recently was assistant secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. He and his wife have three children.
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Luis J. Lauredo
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U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States. Luis J. Lauredo of Florida is the new U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States. He served as president of Greenberg Taurig Consulting, Inc. Mr. Lauredo was executive director of the Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994 and from 1992 to 1994 served as commissioner of the Florida Public Service Commission. He has also served as senior vice president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States and as city councilman in Key Biscayne, Fla. He and his wife, Maria Regina, have two children.
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Delano E. Lewis
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U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. Delano E. Lewis of New Mexico is the new U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. Mr. Lewis began his career in 1963 as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice before joining the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps as associate director in Nigeria, as country director in Uganda, then as director of the Peace Corps' East and Southern Africa Division in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lewis worked for Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts and Delegate Walter E. Fauntroy of Washington, D.C. For 21 years, he was with C&P Telephone of Washington, D.C., rising to president and chief executive officer. He most recently served from 1994 to 1998 as president and chief executive officer of National Public Radio. He and his wife, Gayle Carolyn Jones Lewis, have four children.
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Mary Carlin Yates
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U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi. Mary Carlin Yates of Oregon, a career member of the Foreign Service, is the new U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi. Ms. Yates joined the Foreign Service in 1980 and has served in Korea, the Philippines, Washington, D.C., Zaire and France. She served as director of the public affairs office in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs. She is married to John Melvin Yates, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
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