B. Lynn Pascoe
Ambassador
US Embassy (Indonesia)
B. Lynn Pascoe took up his duties as United States Ambassador to Indonesia on October 28, 2004.
A Career Minister in the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Pascoe was most recently Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. He earlier served as U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia and the U.S. Special Negotiator for Regional Conflicts in the former Soviet Union.
From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Pascoe held the post of Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the organization that carries out 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 and a half decades in the Foreign Service, Ambassador Pascoe 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, Diane, have two grown daughters and two grandchildren.
