Biography - B. Lynn Pascoe

B. Lynn Pascoe - Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs

B. Lynn Pascoe took up his duties as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs on September 4, 2001. His areas of responsibility include countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

A Career Minister in the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Pascoe served most recently as American Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He earlier served as the U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Regional Conflicts and the U.S. Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Minsk Group.

From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Pascoe was the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the organization that carries out cultural, commercial and other relations between the people of the United States and the people of Taiwan. He also has served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the East Asian and Pacific Bureau of the State Department, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State, and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State.

In over three decades in the Foreign Service, he has held positions on the Soviet and China desks, and has been posted to Moscow, Hong Kong and Bangkok, as well as to Beijing twice, Taipei and Kuala Lumpur. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Born in Missouri in 1943, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas and his Master of Arts from Columbia University. He has also attended the U.S. National War College and the State Department's Senior Seminar.

Ambassador Pascoe and his wife have two grown daughters.

Released by the U.S. State Department Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, July 2002.