[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[May 7, 1992]
[Page 725]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Teresita Currie Schaffer To Be United States Ambassador to 
Sri Lanka and Maldives

May 7, 1992
    The President today announced his intention to nominate Teresita 
Currie Schaffer, of New York, a career member of the Senior Foreign 
Service, class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador to the Democratic 
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives. She 
would succeed Marion V. Creekmore, Jr.
    Since 1989, Ms. Schaffer has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary 
for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the U.S. Department of 
State. Prior to this, she served at the Department of State as Director 
of the Office of Egyptian Affairs, 1987-89; Director of the Office of 
International Trade, 1982-84; and as Chief of the Division of General 
Commercial Policy, Office of International Trade, 1980-82.
    Ms. Schaffer graduated from Bryn Mawr College (B.A., 1966). She was 
born September 28, 1945, in Washington, DC. Ms. Schaffer is married, has 
two children, and resides in Washington, DC.