Appointment of John D. Negroponte as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

The President today announced his intention to appoint John D. Negroponte to serve as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

Since July 1985 Mr. Negroponte has served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. A career Foreign Service officer since 1960, he was Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras from November 1981 to June 1985. Mr. Negroponte received the Senior Foreign Service Meritorious Service Award in both 1983 and 1987. Since joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Negroponte has served abroad in Hong Kong, Saigon, Paris, Quito, Thessaloniki, and Tegucigalpa. In Washington he has had tours on the National Security Council staff and at the Department of State. In Paris Mr. Negroponte was a member of the United States delegation to the peace talks on Vietnam. While on the National Security Council staff (1970-1973) he was head of the office dealing with Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia and in that capacity attended the 1972 Nixon/Brezhnev summit. He has also served as chief United States fisheries negotiator with the rank of Ambassador (1977-1979) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1980-1981) dealing with Southeast Asia.

Mr. Negroponte was born on July 21, 1939. He received a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1960 and is married to Diana Villiers. They have two daughters, Marina and Alexandra. They reside in Washington, DC.