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Digitized from Box 19 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 22, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Joseph A. Greenwald,
of Chicago, Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for Economic
and Business Affairs. He will succeed Thomas O. Enders who became
Ambassador to Canada on December 15, 1975.
Since 1972, Mr. Greenwald, a career Minister, has been United States
Representative to the United States Mission to the European Communities,
with the rank of Ambassador. From 1969 to 1972, he was the United
States Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development with the personal rank of Ambassador in Paris, France. He
served at the Department of State from 1963 to 1969, serving successively
as Director of the Office of International Trade for the Bureau of
Economic Affairs (1963-65); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-
national Trade Policy and Economic Defense (1965-1969); and Acting
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1969). He was an
Economic Officer in London, England from 1958 to 1963.
In 1955, Mr. Greenwald became Chief of the Special Problems Branch with
the Trade Agreements and Treaties Division for the Bureau of Economic
and Chief of the Commercial Programs Branch, serving until 1958. From
1952 to 1955, he was an Economic Adviser with the United States Delegation
to the Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Switzerland, after having
served as an Economist with the Division of Commercial Policy from
1949 to 1952 at the Department. From 1947 to 1949 he was an Economist
with International Resources Division at the State Department.
Mr. Greenwald was born on September 18, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois, and
received his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1941. He attended
Georgetown University and received his LL. B. in 1951. He served in
the United States Navy during 1940-41 and became an Economist in the
Office of Production Management in 1941. He served as a Warrant Officer,
Purser-Pharmacist with the United States Maritime Service from 1944 to 1946.
He became an Economist in the Office of Price Administration during 1946-
47.
Mr. Greenwald is married to the former Virginia Doyle and they have three
children. They reside in Brussels, Belgium.
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