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Edward W. Gnehm Jr. |
Gnehm is President’s
choice for personnel
Edward W. Gnehm Jr., U.S. deputy representative to the United Nations, has been named director of personnel and director general of the Foreign Service. The nomination requires confirmation by the Senate.
Mr. Gnehm, at the United Nations since 1994, joined the Foreign Service in 1969. After serving as commercial officer in Saigon, he became vice consul in Kathmandu in 1970. He served as a desk officer for Nepal and as a staff assistant in Public Affairs before reporting to Damascus in 1974 as economic officer.
After language training in Tunis and Beirut, Mr. Gnehm headed the U.S. liaison office in Riyadh from 1976 to 1978. He served as deputy chief of mission in Sanaa, 1978-81. After a stint as a Pearson fellow, he headed Personnel’s Junior Officer Division, 1982-83, before his selection as director of the Secretariat staff. In 1984 he was named deputy chief of mission in Amman. Mr. Gnehm served as DAS for Near East and South Asia at Defense before holding the same position at State, 1989-90. He was ambassador to Kuwait until 1994.
Mr. Gnehm is a native of Carrolton, Ga., and earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from George Washington University. He speaks Arabic and French. His honors include Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, the Defense Department’s Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service and George Washington University’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He is married to Margaret Scott; they have a daughter, Cheryl, and a son, Edward Jr. ~
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Karl F. Inderfurth
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Inderfurth named for
top South Asian slot
Karl F. Inderfurth, alternate representative for special political affairs at the United Nations, has been nominated to become assistant secretary for South Asian affairs. The position requires Senate confirmation.
Mr. Inderfurth began his career in 1970 as a staff assistant to Senator William Proxmire. After working as a field organizer in the McGovern presidential campaign, he joined Senator Gary Hart’s staff on the Select Committee on Intelligence in 1975. He was a staff assistant to national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1977-79, then served as deputy staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1979-81.
Mr. Inderfurth served as Moscow and national security correspondent for ABC News, 1981-91. He was a consultant to the Eurasia Foundation, 1991-92, and a project director at the Center for National Policy, also in 1992. He served as a consultant to the Department before assuming his U.N. position in 1993.
A native of Charlotte, N.C., Mr. Inderfuth holds a bachelor’s from the University of North Carolina and a master’s from Princeton. He also attended Duke Divinity School and Glasgow’s Strathclyde University on a Fulbright Scholarship. His foreign language is Russian. He has received an Emmy, an Emmy nomination and the Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. He is married to Meredith Roosa Inderfurth. They have three children: Ashley, Allison and Jean. ~
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