Yalowitz is currently Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, at Dartmouth College.
Ambassador Yalowitz retired from the State Department in September 2001 after 36 years a diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service. He served twice as a U.S. ambassador: to the Republic of Belarus from 1994-1997; and to Georgia from 1998-2001. His other foreign assignments included two tours of duty in Moscow, The Hague and the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels.
Yalowitz was chosen for the Ambassador Robert Frasure award for peacemaking and conflict prevention in 2000 for his work to prevent the spillover of the Chechen war into Georgia.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7:15 p.m.
I serve on the board of directors of the Windham World Affairs Council, and I can assure you that its programs are interesting, substantive and far more valuable than most foreign affairs accounts in the news media.
BTW, the Windham World Affairs Council’s annual meeting program is Friday evening, June 3 at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, and the speaker is Phyllis E. Oakley, a former U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration. Ms. Oakley will speak on “United Nations Reform: Possible and Needed” at 7:30 p.m. in the International Center. A dinner and short WWAC business meeting will precede her talk. To reserve space for dinner, call 802-365-4488.
Phyllis E. Oakley is currently the Chair of the Board of the U.S. Committee for the United Nations Population Fund, the world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programs. Since it began operations in 1969, the Fund has provided nearly $6 billion in assistance to developing countries.
As a Foreign Service Officer until her retirement in 1999, Oakley twice served as Assistant Secretary of State, heading the Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration and later the Bureau for Intelligence and Research (INR). She was the first woman spokesman for the State Department, a role she filled from 1986 through 1989.
While there is a charge for dinner, Oakley’s talk is free and open to the public.
Chuck Bingaman