    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [March 22, 1991]
    [Page 303]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Appointment of Ed A. Hewett as Special Assistant to the President for
    National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Soviet Affairs
    March 22, 1991

        The President announced today the appointment of Dr. Ed A. Hewett as
    a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and
    Senior Director for Soviet Affairs.
        Dr. Hewett has been a senior fellow in the foreign policy studies
    program at the Brookings Institution since 1981. From 1971 to 1981 he
    was associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at
    Austin. He has served as visiting professor at the University of
    Pennsylvania and Columbia University and has been a visiting scholar at
    Harvard's Russian Research Center and the Institute for World Economy in
    Budapest. A founder and editor of the journal Soviet Economy, Dr. Hewett
    served as chairman of the National Council for Soviet and East European
    Research and president of the Association for Comparative Economic
    Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
    American Economics Association, and the American Association for the
    Advancement of Slavic Studies. Dr. Hewett is the author of many books
    and articles on Soviet affairs. His most recent books are ``Reforming
    the Soviet Economy: Equality vs. Efficiency'' (1988) and ``Open for
    Business: The Soviet Union and the Global Economy'' (in press).
        Dr. Hewett graduated from Colorado State University (B.S. and M.S.,
    1964 and 1966) and from the University of Michigan (Ph.D. in economics
    with a certificate in Soviet studies, 1971). He speaks Russian and
    Hungarian.