Nomination of Robert Brendon Keating To Be United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Brendon Keating to be United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a term of 2 years. He would succeed James B. Burnham.

Since 1983 he has been serving as United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Madagascar and the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros. He also served as Chairman of the President's Third World Hunger Study in 1983-1984. He was United States delegate to the Law of the Sea Conference and technical director for the Law of the Sea Treaty Review in 1981-1982. He was a consultant in International Security Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 1981-1983. He served as vice president of Pure Water Systems, Inc., in 1979-1981.

Ambassador Keating graduated from the United States Naval Academy (B.S., 1946) and Georgetown University (M.E.A., 1961). He is married, has one child, and resides in Washington, DC. He was born May 7, 1924, in Medford, MA.