Appointment of Harry W. Shlaudeman as Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America

The President today announced his intention to appoint Harry W. Shlaudeman to be Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America.

Mr. Shlaudeman has been serving since October 1980 as Ambassador to Argentina. Previously he was Ambassador to Peru from 1977 to 1980. Shlaudeman joined the Foreign Service in 1954 and was posted in Barranquilla, Bogota, Sofia, and Santo Domingo. From 1963 to 1965, he was chief of Dominican affairs at the State Department, and from 1965 to 1966, he was Assistant Director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs. He was in the senior seminar in foreign policy in 1966-1967. From 1967 to 1969, Shlaudeman was Special Assistant to the Secretary of State. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Santiago from 1969 to 1973 and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1976, he was Ambassador to Venezuela, and from 1976 to 1977, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

Shlaudeman was born May 17, 1926, in Los Angeles, Calif., and is a resident of San Marino, Calif. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1944 to 1946. He received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1952.