 Coordinator and Ambassador at Large for Refugee Affairs on September 12, 1986, and was appointed Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs on March 5, 1987.From 1989 to 1992, he served as United States Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.He returned to the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1992, becoming an associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.