Appointment of Louis F. Laun as a Commissioner-Observer on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

The President today announced his intention to appoint Louis F. Laun to be an executive branch Commissioner-Observer on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He would succeed Alfred Hugh Kingon.

Since 1986 Mr. Laun has been an Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC. Previously he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Operations for the U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service at the Department of Commerce in 1986. From 1977 to 1986, he was president of the American Paper Institute. Mr. Laun was also Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration, 1973-1977, and

Associate Administrator in 1973.

Mr. Laun graduated from Yale University (A.B, 1942). He was born May 19, 1920, in Battle Creek, MI. He served in the United States Marine Corps, 1942-1946. He is married, has three children, and resides in Washington, DC.