Nomination of Paul H. Boeker To Be United States Ambassador to Jordan

The President today announced his intention to nominate Paul H. Boeker, of Ohio, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, as Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He would succeed Richard N. Viets.

Mr. Boeker entered the Foreign Service in 1961 as consular officer in Ponta Delgada. He was assistant commercial attaché in Bogota in 1964-1966. In 1966-1967 he attended economic studies at the University of Michigan. In the Department he was financial economist (1967-1970) and Director (1970-1971) of the Office of Development and Finance. He was economic officer in Bonn in 1971-1973. In the Department he was a member of the policy planning staff (1974), Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development (1974-1976), and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs (1976-1977). He was Ambassador to Bolivia in 1977-1980. In 1980-1982 he was Director of the Foreign Service Institute. On a leave of absence from the Department of State, he served as director of analysis for International Reporting Information Systems in Alexandria, VA, in 1981-1983. Since 1983 he has been a member of the Policy Planning Council in the Department.

Mr. Boeker graduated from Dartmouth College (A.B., 1960) and the University of Michigan (M.A., 1967). He attended graduate studies at Princeton University in 1960-1961. His foreign languages are German, Spanish, and French. He was born May 2, 1938, in St. Louis, MO.