Nomination of Jonathan Moore To Be United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and Ambassador at Large

The President today announced his intention to nominate Jonathan Moore to be United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and Ambassador at Large. He would succeed Howard Eugene Douglas.

Mr. Moore became director of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1974 after having resigned his post as Associate Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice. Immediately prior to that, he served as special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Counselor to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He was a legislative assistant to Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and he worked in various State and national election campaigns in 1967-1968. Earlier, he worked in the Departments of Defense and State and the U.S. Information Agency in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Eisenhower administrations, respectively. Mr. Moore presently serves on the board of directors of IU International, chairs the WCVB-TV editorial board and the visiting board of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Moore was born September 10, 1932, in New York City. He received his A.B. in 1954 from Dartmouth College and M.P.A. in 1957 from Harvard University. He is married, has four children, and resides in Weston. MA.