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CAREERS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS PANEL
*Focus on Careers in the US Foreign Service*

w/ Ambassador Ross Wilson
and Career Diplomat Margo Squire
moderated by Ambassador Ken Yalowitz

THURSDAY, May 12th
12pm-1pm (lunch provided)
Haldeman 041
Please RSVP to http://tinyurl.com/CareersUSfs

In 2008, Ross Wilson completed three decades in the US Foreign Service,
including six years as American ambassador to Turkey in 2005-08 and to
Azerbaijan in 2000-03.  Elsewhere overseas, he served at the US embassies in
Moscow and Prague and was American Consul General in Melbourne, Australia. In
Washington, Ambassador Wilson served as Chief of Staff for Deputy Secretary of
State Robert Zoellick in 2005.   In 1997-2000, Ambassador Wilson served as
Principal Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary
of State for the New Independent States (of the former Soviet Union). 

A career Foreign Service Officer, Margo joined the U.S. Information Agency in
1984 and has served with USIA and the State Department in Munich, Moscow,
Melbourne, Baku, Ankara and Washington. She has experience in public affairs,
international broadcasting, educational exchanges, and management of USG
assistance activities. She has also worked in the private sector and in NGOs.
Margo is currently a Division Director in the Leadership and Management School
at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. 

Amb. Yalowitz is the current director of the John Sloan Dickey Center of
International Understanding and retired from the US Department of State in 2001
after 36 years as career 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.

Join Ross and Margo to hear about their experiences with the US foreign service,
and ask any questions you might have about pursuing a career as a diplomat!

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