[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992-1993, Book II)]
[August 24, 1992]
[Page 1418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Appointment of Dennis B. Ross as Assistant to the President for Policy 
Planning
August 24, 1992

    The President today announced the appointment of Dennis B. Ross as 
Assistant to the President for Policy Planning.
    Since 1989, Mr. Ross has been Director of the Policy Planning Staff 
of the Department of State. In that position he played a major role in 
formulating and implementing U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union 
and the Middle East peace process. Prior to becoming Director, Mr. Ross 
served as the senior foreign policy adviser to the George Bush campaign 
and the head of national security affairs during the Presidential 
transition. He was the Director of Near East and South Asian Affairs on 
the National Security Council staff from May 1986 to July 1988. From 
1984 to 1986, he was outside the Government in the academic world, 
serving as the executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford program on 
Soviet international behavior. In the early 1980's, he held positions in 
both the State and Defense Departments, serving first as a member of the 
policy planning staff with responsibility for Middle Eastern issues. 
Later, from 1982 to 1984, he was the Deputy Director of the Office of 
Net Assessment in the Pentagon, working principally on Soviet, Middle 
Eastern, and broad military balance issues.
    Mr. Ross did his undergraduate and graduate studies at UCLA, wrote a 
doctoral dissertation on Soviet decisionmaking, and has published 
extensively on Soviet and Middle Eastern policy questions. He was born 
on November 26, 1948, in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Ross is married and has 
three children.