For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 30, 2001
President Bush to Nominate Randt to be Ambassador of the United States to the People's Republic of China
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
Clark T. Randt, Jr. to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of the United States of America to the People's Republic of China.
"Sandy Randt has spent most of his professional career working with
China in the Foreign Service and in business matters. His expertise in
the Chinese language and culture, international business, and foreign
affairs, will help us strengthen our important relationship with China
as he serves as our next U.S. Ambassador," said the President.
Clark (Sandy) Randt has been involved in U.S. and Chinese relations
both from the government and private sector perspectives for over 25
years. He served in Taipei, Taiwan, with the United States
Air Force Security Service from 1968 to 1972. During his
second year of law school he participated in an East Asia Legal Studies
Travelling Fellowship to China where he sat on the National Council for
United States-China Trade as the China Representative. While
there he established and managed the Canton Trade Fair Office.
From 1975 to 1982, Randt was an Associate in New York and then Tokyo
with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. The
following two years he served as the First Secretary and Commercial
Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing where he was the lead negotiator
on compliance issues under the U.S.-China Bilateral Trade
Agreement. During that time he was awarded a Distinguished
Service Silver Medal and Foreign Service Sustained Superior Service
Award. Mr. Randt served as a Partner Resident in the Hong
Kong office with Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe from 1985 to 1987
and then became the Partner resident in Hong Kong and Head of the China
Practice Group for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher until 1993. He is
presently a Partner resident and Head of the China Practice Group for
Shearman & Sterling.
Mr. Randt is a resident of Connecticut, and is a graduate of Yale
University and the University of Michigan Law School.
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