For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 2, 2001
Statement by the Press Secretary
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
announced today the appointment of John A. Cloud as Special Assistant
to the President and Senior Director for International Economic
Affairs, effective April 30, 2001.
Mr. Cloud has been Deputy Chief of Mission at
the U.S. Mission to the European Union from 1999 to
2001. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Cloud served as the Deputy
Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.
From 1991 to 1995, Mr. Cloud was the Economic
Counselor at the American Embassy in Bonn, Germany. He
served at the State Department from 1988 to 1991 as Bulgarian/Albanian
Desk Officer and as Economic Desk Officer for Poland, Hungary and
Czechoslovakia. Mr. Cloud served in Mexico as well as an
earlier assignment in Warsaw, Poland. In the State
Department, he has also worked in the Bureaus of Economic & Business
and Intelligence & Research.
Mr. Cloud received his B.A. from the
University of Connecticut in 1975, and a Masters in International
Affairs from George Washington University in 1977. Raised in
Connecticut, Mr. Cloud lives in Virginia. He and his wife, Mary, have
two daughters, Jennifer and Michelle.
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