Walpole's Ambassador Adrian A. Basora, a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Director of the Project on Democratic Transitions, will be the featured speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont on Friday, June 20, at 7:30 PM, at the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro. 



	The title of his talk will be Must Democracy Continue to Retreat in Postcommunist Europe/Eurasia?



Ambassador Basora also serves as Past President and Trustee of Eisenhower Fellowships, actively participates in an EF global leadership network that includes the former President of Turkey, the new Vice President of Taiwan,and over 100 past and current cabinet ministers, plus several hundred other leaders such as CEOs, university rectors, NGO heads and media directors in over 50 key countries.



Basora is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and an Independent Director of the Quaker Investment Trust. He holds an MPA in International Affairs from Princeton University and undergraduate degrees from Fordham University and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.



There will be a short business meeting beginning at 6:30 PM, coffee with the speaker at 7:00 PM, and the talk beginning at 7:30 PM. Free and open to the general public.