B. Lynn Pascoe was confirmed by the Senate on October 6, 2004 and sworn-in on October 22 as the next U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia. Ambassador Pascoe is a Career Minister of the Senior Foreign Service.
Ambassador Pascoe served most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. His areas of responsibility included countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Prior to that, Ambassador Pascoe served as American Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He earlier served as the U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Regional Conflicts and the U.S. Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group.
From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Pascoe was the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the organization that carries out cultural, commercial and other relations between the people of the United States and the people of Taiwan. He has also served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the East Asian and Pacific Bureau of the State Department, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in Beijing, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State, and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State.
In over three decades in the Foreign Service, he has held positions on the Soviet and China desks, and been posted to Moscow, Hong Kong and Bangkok, as well as to Beijing twice, Taipei and Kuala Lumpur. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Born in Missouri in 1943, he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Kansas and his Master of Arts from Columbia University. He has also attended the U.S. National War College and the State Department’s Senior Seminar.
Ambassador Pascoe and his wife have two grown daughters.
