United States Ambassador to the Sudan Nomination of C. William Kontos.

The President today announced that he will nominate C. William Kontos, of Chicago, Ill., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Sudan. He would replace Donald C. Bergus, resigned. Kontos has been Special Representative of the President and Director of the Sinai Support Mission since 1976.

He was born August 10, 1922, in Chicago. He received an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946.

Kontos was with the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) from 1949 to 1972. He was stationed in Greece, Ceylon, and Nigeria, and at AID's Washington headquarters. From 1965 to 1967, Kontos was Director of Personnel for AID. From 1967 to 1969, he was Director of the U.S. AID Mission to Pakistan, and from 1969 to 1972, he was Director of Program Evaluation at AID in Washington.

From 1972 to 1974, Kontos was posted at the United Nations as Deputy Commissioner-General of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. From 1974 to 1976, he was on the policy planning staff at the State Department.