THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release August 10, 1993 PRESIDENT NAMES GARDNER AMBASSADOR TO SPAIN President Bill Clinton announced today that he intends to nominate Columbia University Professor Richard N. Gardner to be Ambassador to Spain. "Professor Gardner is an internationally recognized authority on international law, international economic problems, and U.S.-European relations," said the President. "He will serve our country well as Ambassador to this important ally and trading partner." Gardner holds the Henry L. Moses professorship in Law and International Organization at Columbia, and serves as senior counsel to the international law firm of Coudert Brothers. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy in the Carter Administration, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He is the author of four books on international affairs, including Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy: The Origins and the Prospects of our International Economic Order, and In Pursuit of World Order: U.S. Foreign Policy and International Organization. He has also written numerous articles for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. For the past 11 years, Gardner has served as Co-Chairman of the Aspen Institute's program on the United States and the World Economy, which brings together political leaders, businessmen and academic experts from the United States, Europe, Japan, and developing countries to discuss current international economic problems. He has also been serving as chairman of the U.S. group in a joint Russian-American program on the United Nations and collective security established under the auspices of the U.S. and Russian United Nations Associations. In addition, he is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves as a Director of Freedom House and the International League for Human Rights. Gardner holds a B.A. from Harvard College, LL.D. from Yale Law School, and Ph.D. from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He is married to the former Danielle Almeida Luzzatto, a correspondent in New York for Italian print and television media. They have two children: Nina, 32, and Anthony, 30. # # #