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Edward J. Perkins was appointed United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations by President George Bush in May 1992. Ambassador Perkins, who began his government service in 1962, holds the rank of Career Minister in the Foreign Service. A winner of the Presidential Meritorious Service Award and the Presidential Distinguished Service Award, he is a management specialist with a doctorate in public administration from the University of Southern California. |
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Since 1989, he has been Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of State Department Personnel. In that position, Ambassador Perkins was the architect of substantive changes in Foreign Serviceand State Department personnel management. |
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He devised long-range management plans to ensure that the Department's officers will be equipped to meet the challenges of the post-Cold War era. |
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Prior to being named Director General, Ambassador Perkins served as U.S. Arnbassador to South Mrica from 1986-89. At a critical juncture in U.S.-South African relations, and at a time of great social upheaval in that country, Ambassador Perkins forged ties with both the white minority government and leaders of the black majority. It was during his tenure in South Mrica that the government began to dismantle the policies of apartheid, or racial separation. |
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Ambassador Perkins was also U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia from 1985 to 1986. Prior to being named Ambassador to Liberia, he was Director of the Office of West Mrican Affairs in the State Department, 1983-85; Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy to Liberia, 1981-83; and Counselor for Political Mfairs in the U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana, 1978-81. |
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Mr. Perkins has a B.A. from the University of Maryland (1967), a Masters (1972) and a Doctorate (1978) in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. Among his honorary degrees are a Doctor of Laws from the University of Maryland, St. John's University, and Lewis and Clark College; a Doctor of Humanities from Beloit College, a Doctor of Humane Laws from St. Augustine College and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Winston-Salem State University. He is the author of "New Dimensions in Foreign Mfairs: Public Administration Theory in Practice," Public Administration Review, July-August 1990. |
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Mr. Perkins has received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award (1992), the State Department's Superior Honor Award (1983), a Meritorious Honor Award from the Agency for International Development, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Southern California, the Southern University Achievement Award, the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Foreign Service, and the Una Chapman Cox Foundation Award for Outstanding Service as a Foreign Service Officer. |
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Ambassador Perkins was born on ,June 8, 1928 in Sterlington, Louisiana. He and his wife Lucy Liu have two daughters, Katherine and Sarah. |
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