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SUMMARY:Lecture: \"Can We Save the World?\"
LOCATION:Great Hall\, Memorial Union
URL:http://www.event.iastate.edu/event/18666
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DESCRIPTION:http://www.event.iastate.edu/event/18666\n\n\"Ca
 n We Save the World?\" Wendy Chamberlin\, Middle East Instit
 ute and veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service. She was the U.S
 . Ambassador to Pakistan from 2001 to 2002 and played a key 
 role in Pakistan's cooperation for the U.S.-led campaign aga
 inst al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan following 9/11.\n---
 -----------------\nAmbassador Wendy Chamberlin\nPresident\, 
 Middle East Institute\n\nWendy Chamberlin has been President
  of the Middle East Institute since March 2007. A 29-year ve
 teran of the US Foreign Service\, she was US Ambassador to P
 akistan from 2001 to 2002. During her tenure in Islamabad\, 
 she played a key role in Pakistan's cooperation for the US-l
 ed campaign against al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan follo
 wing the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.\n\nCha
 mberlin has extensive experience in counter-terrorism\, havi
 ng served as Director of Global Affairs and Counter-Terroris
 m at the National Security Council (1991-1993) and as Deputy
  in the Bureau of International Counter-Narcotics and Law Pr
 ograms (1999-2001).\n\nAs Assistant Administrator in the Asi
 a-Near East Bureau for the US Agency for International Devel
 opment (USAID) from 2002 to 2004\, Ambassador Chamberlin dir
 ected civilian reconstruction programs in Iraq and Afghanist
 an and development assistance programs throughout Middle Eas
 t and East Asia.\n\nOther assignments included US Ambassador
  to the Laos People's Democratic Republic (1996-1999)\, Dire
 ctor of Press and Public Affairs for the Near East Bureau (1
 991-1993)\, Deputy Chief of Mission in the US Embassy in Kua
 la Lumpur (1993-1996)\, Arab-Israeli Affairs (1982-1984) and
  other postings in Morocco\, Pakistan\, Malaysia\, Laos and 
 Zaire.\n\nPrior to joining MEI\, Chamberlin served as Deputy
  High Commissioner for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
  (2004-2006) where she supervised the administration of the 
 UN humanitarian organization with a budget of four billion d
 ollars.\n\nHer opinion pieces were published in The Washingt
 on Post and International Herald Tribune. In addition\, she 
 made several appearances on NPR\, FOX\, CNN\, BBC\, ABC\, CB
 S\, NBC\, Al Jazeera and the Travis Smiley Show.\n\nA gradua
 te of Northwestern University\, Chamberlin has a MS in Educa
 tion from Boston University and participated in the Executiv
 e Program at Harvard University. She holds an honorary PhD f
 rom Northwestern University. She serves on the Board of the 
 American Academy for Diplomacy and the Hollings Center. She 
 has two daughters.\n\nContact: lectures@iastate.edu\nPhone: 
 515-294-9934
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