Former U.S. Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian is scheduled to deliver an address June 30 on “The Broader Middle East and the Global Economy.”

The talk is part of the Dean’s Distinguished Speakers Series at the Graduate School of Management. The GSM and the Institute of Governmental Affairs are co-sponsoring the free talk. Due to limited space, the program is open initially only to affiliates of the GSM, the Institute of Government Affairs, and other campus units with Middle East interest or ties.

Djerejian, the founding director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, is considered a leading expert on the political, security, economic, religious and ethnic issues of the Middle East.

He is the author of Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador’s Journey Through the Middle East.

Djerejian’s lecture is set to begin at 4 p.m., and a question-and-answer session is planned from 5-5:30 p.m. The location is the Ali Abbaszadeh Lecture Hall, 1213 Gallagher Hall. For viewing after the event, Djerejian’s talk will be videotaped and available at www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/multimedia and on UCTV at www.uctv.tv.

Djerejian’s career as a diplomat spanned the administrations of eight presidents.

He played key roles in the Arab–Israeli peace process, the U.S.-led coalition against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, successful efforts to end the civil war in Lebanon, the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and the establishment of collective and bilateral security arrangements in the Persian Gulf.

He served as ambassador to Israel (under President Clinton) and the Syrian Arab Republic (under President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush); deputy assistant secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Jordan. and as special assistant to President Reagan and deputy press secretary for foreign affairs in the White House.

Registration and more information. Organizers are asking for RSVPs by the end of today (June 25).

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