Nomination of Dennis Kux To Be United States Ambassador to the Ivory Coast

The President today announced his intention to nominate Dennis Kux, of New York, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Ivory Coast. He succeeds Robert Hopkins Miller.

Mr. Kux entered the Foreign Service in 1955 and first served as an economic officer in the trade agreements division of the Bureau of Economic Affairs and then the fuels division. He went to Karachi, Pakistan, as an economic officer and second secretary, 1957-1959. Mr. Kux was then assigned to the American Consulate General in Madras, India, as a commercial and consular officer from 1960 to 1962. He returned to the Department in 1962 to become the Nepal desk officer in the Office of South Asian Affairs. From 1964 to 1966, he was a personnel assignments officer in the Bureau of Personnel, and in 1966 became political officer and second secretary at our Embassy in Bonn, Germany. From Bonn he went to Islamabad, Pakistan, as political officer and first secretary, 1969-1971. From 1971 to 1972, Mr. Kux was a student at the U.S. Army War College. He became the Indian desk officer in the Bureau of the Near East and South Asian Affairs in 1972, followed by country director for India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, 1974-1977. He then attended the Senior Seminar for a year at the Foreign Service Institute. In 1978 he served as Political Counselor at our Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, returning to the Department in 1980 to become Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coordination in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Since 1984 he has been Deputy Director for Management Operations in the Department.

He graduated from Lafayette College (A.B., 1952) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A., 1955). He served in the U.S. Army, 1952-1954. His foreign languages are French, German, Urdu, Tamil, and Turkish. He was born August 11, 1931, in London, England.