[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.