Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS B. LYNN PASCOE OF UNITED STATES

 

UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of B. Lynn Pascoe of the United States as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs.  Mr. Pascoe has served as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia since November 2004.

Mr. Pascoe previously served as United States Ambassador to Malaysia, before he took up duties as Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on 4 September 2001.  Earlier, he served as United States Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Regional Conflicts and the United States 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 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 United States Embassy in Beijing, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of States and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State.

In over three decades of his diplomatic career, he has held positions on the Soviet and China desks, and has 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 United States National War College and the State Department’s Senior Seminar.  Mr. Pascoe and his wife have two grown daughters.

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