NEWS                                   September 5, 1996
   
                     
                                DON GIPS NAMED CHIEF OF INTERNATIONAL BUREAU
                  
        Donald H. Gips has been named Chief of the FCC's International Bureau.  He
   has served as Acting Director of the Bureau since May 13.
   
        "Don is one of those extraordinary individuals who influences the course of
   events by having the vision to see the art of the possible,  the creativity to make
   obstacles disappear and the grace to make it all look easy," said Chairman Reed
   Hundt. 
   
        Gips joined the FCC in January 1994 and served from February 1994 to
   February 1996 as Deputy Chief of the Office of Plans and  Policy. He led the team
   which designed the Personal Communications Service band plan and auction rules for
   the FCC's first-ever auctions.  Those auctions have earned the U.S. Treasury $20
   billion and have been widely praised both in the U.S. and internationally.  The team
   Gips led received Vice President Gore's Hammer Award for reinventing government. 
   
         Gips joined the International Bureau initially as Deputy Director on February
   29, when his predecessor, Scott Blake Harris, announced his intention to leave the
   Commission.  During that period, Gips served on detail to oversee the Commission's
   implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
   
        Before coming to the FCC, Gips was Engagement Manager at McKinsey &
   Company, the international management consulting firm, where he designed and
   implemented business strategies for Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries. 
   Gips has served as well in a number of government and community leadership
   positions.  He helped create the National Service Corporation and served as
   Executive Assistant to the Director of the 92nd Street Y -- New York's largest
   community-based non-profit organization -- Senior Policy Analyst for the Mayor of
   New York City's Transportation Office, and Operations Manager for the 1984 Bill
   Bradley Senate campaign.
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        Gips graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received a
   Master's degree in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of
   Organization and Management.  He was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship to work on
   development issues in Asia and a CORO Foundation Public Affairs fellowship.
   
        Gips, his wife Elizabeth Berry, and their sons Sam and Peter live in
   Washington, DC.
   
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