For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 16, 2001
Statement by the Press Secretary
The President today announced the appointment
of Stephen E. Biegun as Executive Secretary of the National Security
Council, effective June 18, 2001.
Mr. Biegun has served for thirteen years as a
foreign policy advisor to members of both the House of Representatives
and the United States Senate. For the past two years, his
responsibilities have included Staff Director of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Committee
Chairman, Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC). From 1994 to 1996, Mr.
Biegun was the Foreign Relations Committee's Senior Professional Staff
Member for European Affairs. From 1992 to 1994, he was the
Resident Director in the Russian Federation for the International
Republican Institute, a democracy-building organization established
under the National Endowment for Democracy. For six years in
the House of Representatives, Mr. Biegun was a staff member on the
Committee on Foreign Affairs with responsibility for the foreign
assistance budget, trade policy, and European affairs.
Mr. Biegun was born in Detroit,
Michigan. He has a B.A. from the University of Michigan in
Russian Language and Political Science. He resides in
Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Adelaide and their three children.
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