USDANEWS VOLUME 55 NO. 6 - JULY 1996

Dan Conable was selected as deputy administrator for foreign agricultural affairs with the Foreign Agricultural Service. He succeeded George Pope, who served in that position from June 1995 until Sept. 1995 when he became the agricultural minister-counselor for FAS at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.

From July 1994 until his recent selection Conable was FAS's agricultural minister-counselor in Mexico, based in Mexico City. He worked as the agency's agricultural counselor in India, based in New Delhi, from 1990-94. From 1988-90 he was the deputy assistant administrator for commodity & marketing programs, based at FAS headquarters in Washington, DC. He served as the agricultural counselor for FAS in Korea, based in Seoul, from 1984-87, after having been the agricultural counselor in Malaysia, based in Kuala Lumpur, from 1982-84. From 1980-82 he was an agricultural officer for the agency in Indonesia, based in Jakarta.

Conable was an agricultural economist in FAS's Dairy, Livestock, and Poultry Division from 1979-80. He worked as an international economist in its Market Economies Division during 1979. He joined the agency as an agricultural economist in 1978. He was an international teacher at a middle school in Iran from 1974-76, after having worked as a farmer and a high school history and English teacher in upstate New York from 1969-74.

A native of East Aurora, N.Y., Conable holds a B.A. degree in Asian studies from Cornell University and an M.S. degree in agricultural economics from the University of Vermont. ¤

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