United States Ambassador to Hungary - Nomination of Philip M. Kaiser

The President today announced that he will nominate Philip M. Kaiser, of New York, N.Y., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Hungary. Kaiser is director of Guinness Mahon Holdings, Ltd., in London, England.

Kaiser was born July 12, 1913, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1935 and a B.A. and M.A from Balliol College, Oxford University, in 1939.

From 1939 to 1942, Kaiser was an economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. From 1942 to 1944, he was Chief of the Project Operations Staff of the Board of Economic Warfare in Washington, and from 1944. to 1946 he was Chief of the Planning Staff of the Foreign Economic Administration.

Kaiser served as Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs in 1946. From 1947 to 1949, he was Director of the Office of International Affairs at the Department of Labor. He was Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs from 1949 to 1953.

In 1954 Kaiser was adviser to the Free Europe. Committee in New York City. From 1955 to 1958, he was special assistant to the Governor of New York. From 1958 to 1961, he was a professor of international relations at American University.

From 1961 to 1964, Kaiser served as Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. From 1964 to 1969, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in London. He was chairman and managing director of Encyclopaedia Britannica International, Ltd., from 1969 to 1975. Since 1975 he has been director of Guinness Mahon Holdings, Ltd.