Joseph Verner Reed Jr.

Joseph Verner Reed Jr. was born on December 17, 1937, in New York City. He was named after his father, Joseph Verner Reed (1902 - 1973). His paternal grandfather was Verner Zevola Reed (1863-1919). He is also a descendant of Edward Doty (1599-1655), who emigrated to the United States on the Mayflower. He grew up at Denbigh Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Corsair in Hobe Sound, Florida. He was educated at the Deerfield Academy, a private boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and graduated from Yale University, a private university in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1961. ==Career==

He started his career as private secretary to the president of the World Bank, Eugene "Gene" Robert Black, Sr. (1898-1992). He then was vice president and assistant to the chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, David Rockefeller, from 1963 to 1981. In 1985, he became United States Deputy Permanent Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. He was then appointed by President George H. W. Bush to serve as the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1989 to 1991. He returned to the UN, serving as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative for Public Affairs from 1992 to 1997. From 1997 to 2004, he served as President of the Staff-Management Coordination Committee of the UN. In January 2005, he was appointed as Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser. He was re-appointed as such in 2009. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the recipient of the Legion of Honour. He also received The Yale Medal from his alma mater, Yale University. ==Personal life==

He married Marie Maude Byers, daughter of J. Frederic Byers (1939–1977) of Philadelphia, with whom they had two daughters, Serena (Reed) Kusserow and Electra Reed. ==References==