Nomination of L. Paul Bremer III To Be Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism

The President today announced his intention to nominate L. Paul Bremer III, of Connecticut, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, as Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism.

Ambassador Bremer entered the Foreign Service in 1966 and, as a junior officer, was first assigned to our Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. From 1968 to 1971, he served as a economic/political officer in Blantyre, Malawi. He returned to the Department in 1971 to serve in the following capacities: operations officer; staff assistant to the Secretary of State; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, and then Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State. From 1976 to 1979, Ambassador Bremer was deputy chief of mission in Oslo, Norway. He was assigned in 1976 as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department and in 1979 as Executive Secretary and Special Assistant to the Secretary. Since 1983 he has been our Ambassador to the Netherlands.

He graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1963), the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, France (CEP, 1964), and Harvard Graduate School of Business (M.B.A., 1966). His foreign languages are French, Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, German, and Persian. Ambassador Bremer is married to the former Frances Winfield, and they have two children. He was born September 30, 1941, in Hartford, CT.