NEW AIT CHAIRMAN APPOINTED
ROC Central News Agency
2006-02-25 12:25:33
Washington, Feb. 24 (CNA) The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) announced Friday the appointment of Raymond F. Burghardt as the new chairman of the organization that handles U.S.-Taiwan affairs in the absence of diplomatic ties.
Barbara J. Schrage has been appointed managing director of AIT, according to an AIT statement.
The posts have been vacant since former AIT Chairwoman and Managing Director Therese Shaheen resigned in April 2004.
Burghardt, currently director of East-West Seminars at the East-West Center in Honolulu, will continue to hold his Honolulu position while concurrently serving as AIT chairman, the statement said.
Burghardt has previously served as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, director of the AIT Taipei Office, American consul general in Shanghai and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassies in Manila and Seoul.
Burghardt's previous positions include an assignment on the National Security Council staff as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and senior director of Latin American Affairs. His earlier Latin American experience included service in the U.S. embassies in Honduras and Guatemala. In addition, he has served as political counselor in Beijing, political officer in Hong Kong and Saigon and as deputy director of the State Department's office of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Affairs.
Burghardt was born in New York City in 1945. He received a B.A. from Columbia College in 1967 and did graduate work at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia before joining the Foreign Service in 1969.
(By Jorge Liu and Y.F. Low)
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