Nomination of Robert Brendon Keating To Be United States Ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Brendon Keating to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Madagascar and to the Federal and Islamic Republic of the Comoros. He would succeed Fernando E. Rondon.

Since 1982 Mr. Keating has served as a consultant to the office of the General Counsel at the Department of the Navy. He was a consultant, international security affairs, office of the Secretary of Defense in 1981-1982; vice president, Pure Water Systems, Inc., in 1979-1981; a self-employed consultant in 1973-1979; Director General of the Bureau of Roads, Ministry of Public Works of the Government of Zaire in Kinshasa in 1970-1973; senior adviser for transport and infrastructure projects at the Inter-American Development Bank in 1967-1969; and director of the Chile-California Program of Technical Cooperation in 1964-1967.

He was also Chairman of the United States State Department Committee on Transport Technology for Developing Countries in 1961-1962 and was a member of the United States Delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference in 1981 (Geneva) and 1982 (New York City).

Mr. Keating served in the United States Navy in 1946-1956 as lieutenant. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy (B.S., 1946) and George Washington University (M.E.A., 1961). He is married, has one daughter, and resides in Washington, D.C. He was born May 7, 1924, in Medford, Mass.