United States Ambassador to Austria Nomination of Philip M. Kaiser.

The President today announced that he will nominate Philip M. Kaiser, of New York City, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Austria. He would replace Milton A. Wolf, resigned. Kaiser has been Ambassador to Hungary since 1977.

He 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 with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and from 1942 to 1944, he was chief of the project operations staff of the Board of Economic Warfare. From 1944 to 1946, he was chief of the planning staff at the Foreign Economic Administration, and in 1946 he also served as executive assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs.

Kaiser was Director of the Labor Department's Office of International Affairs from 1947 to 1949 and Assistant Secretary for International Affairs from 1949 to 1953. In 1954 he was an adviser to the Free Europe Committee, and from 1955 to 1958, he was special assistant to the Governor of New York.

From 1958 to 1961, Kaiser was a professor of international relations at American University. He was Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania from 1961 to 1964. From 1964 to 1969, he was Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in London.

From 1969 to 1975, Kaiser was chairman and managing director of Encyclopaedia Britannica International Ltd. From 1975 to 1977, he was director of Guinness Mahon Holdings Ltd. of London, England.