Nomination of Christopher W.S. Ross To Be United States Ambassador to Algeria

The President today announced his intention to nominate Christopher W.S. Ross to be Ambassador of the United States to the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria. He would succeed L. Craig Johnstone.

Mr. Ross entered the Foreign Service in 1968 as an officer of the U.S. Information Agency. In this capacity, he served as junior officer trainee in Tripoli, Libya, from 1969 to 1970; branch public affairs officer in Fez, Morocco, 1970-1973; information officer in Beirut, Lebanon, 1973-1976; and as public affairs officer in Algiers, Algeria, 1976-1979. In 1979 he was detailed to the Department of State and served as deputy chief of mission and Charge d'Affaires at the American Embassy in Algiers, 1979-1981; public affairs adviser of the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1981-1982; Special Assistant to the Special Presidential Envoys to the Middle East, 1982-1984; Director of Regional Affairs of the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1984-1985; and Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1985 to the present.

Mr. Ross graduated from Princeton University (A.B., 1965) and the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (M.A., 1967). He was born March 3, 1943, in Quito, Ecuador. He is married, has one child, and resides in Washington, DC.