International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Nomination of Colbert 1. King To Be U.S. Executive Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate Colbert I. King, of Rockville, Md., to be United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He would replace Edward R. Fried, resigned.

King has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs (International) since 1977.

He was born September 20, 1939, in Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. from Howard University in 1961. He served in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1963.

From 1963 to 1964, King was with the U.S. Civil Service Commission. From 1964 to 1970, he was State Department Attaché in Bonn, West Germany. From 1970 to 1971, he was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

From 1971 to 1972, King was Chief of the Policy and Program Development Staff at VISTA. From 1972 to 1976, he was minority staff director for the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia and was on Senator Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.'s staff, as legislative assistant, then chief of the legislative department. From 1976 to 1977, King was director of

government relations for Potomac Electric Power Co.