The Civic Initiative Speaker Series will continue this month with a lecture and discussion by Ambassador Thomas C. Krajeski, who is currently the Senior Vice President of the University. The ambassador will speak about current affairs in the Middle East, and Yemen, more specifically.
Throughout his diplomatic career, Mr. Krajeski served as the Senior Advisor on Northern Iraqi Affairs in Baghdad in 2008-2009, working to delineate the permanent boundary of Iraqi Kurdistan. On July 30, 2004, he was sworn in as the American Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen of where he served until July 4, 2007. From 2001 to 2004, Ambassador Krajeski was the Director of the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs (
Iran and
Iraq) in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department. From July to October 2003, Ambassador Krajeski served as a political advisor on Ambassador L. Paul Bremer’s staff at The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in
Baghdad. Ambassador Krajeski also served in
Nepal,
India,
Poland,
Tunisia,
Egypt, the
United Arab Emirates and
WashingtonDC. In 2007, he received the President’s Distinguished Service Award for his service in
Iraq and
Yemen. He is an alumna of the
University of
Massachusetts,
Amherst.
Please join us for “Yemen: The Next War”, on Thursday, March 3rd from 5 to 7 p.m. in Thompson 106 at the University of Massachusetts.
To learn more about the Ambassador, visit:
http://www.ndu.edu/info/LeadershipBios/Krajeski.cfm
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