Nomination of Ronald I. Spiers To Be an Under Secretary of State

The President today announced his intention to nominate Ronald I. Spiers to be Under Secretary of State for Management. He would succeed Jerome W. Van Gorkom. Since 1981 he has been serving as Ambassador to Pakistan. Ambassador Spiers joined the State Department in 1955 as foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. In 1957-1961 he was officer in charge of disarmament affairs in the Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State. He was Director of the Office of Political Affairs with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1961-1962. In the Department in 1962-1966, he was Deputy Director, then Director of NATO Affairs, in the Bureau of European Affairs. He was counselor for political affairs in London in 1966-1969 and Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the Department in 1969-1973. In 1973-1974 he was Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. He was Deputy Chief of Mission (Minister) in London in 1974-1977 and served as Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey in 1977-1980. Since 1980 he has been Director of Intelligence and Research in the Department.

Ambassador Spiers graduated from Dartmouth College (A.B., 1948) and Princeton University (M.P.A., 1950). He served in the United States Navy in 1943-1946. He is married, has four children, and resides in South Londonderry, Vt. He was born July 9, 1925, in Orange, N.J.