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Join us for a conversation on Ukraine and Russia featuring former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who also authored the New York Times best-selling memoir, "Lessons from the Edge." The event will be moderated by Carol J. Williams, a veteran Moscow correspondent. This event is free and open to the public.
About the speaker
Ambassador (ret.) Marie Yovanovitch is the author of a New York Times best-selling memoir, "Lessons from the Edge." She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University. Previously, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019), the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011) and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008).
A Career Member of the Senior U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Yovanovitch has earned the Senior Foreign Service Performance Award eight times and the State Department’s Superior Honor Award on nine occasions. She is the recipient of two Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the Secretary’s Diplomacy in Human Rights Award.
Other awards include, but are not limited to, the 2020 PEN/Benenson Courage Award from Pen/America, the Morgenthau Award from the Armenian Assembly of America, the American Spirit Award for Distinguished Public Service from the Common Good, the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government, and the Vandenberg Award. About the moderator
Carol J. Williams is a veteran Moscow correspondent with 30 years' reporting abroad for the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press. She has reported from more than 80 countries, with a focus on USSR/Russia and Eastern Europe. |
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