Dr. Doran is an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton and Adjunct Senior Follow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is amongst the leading academic authorities on U.S. foreign policy; modern Middle East issues; Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process; terrorism; diplomatic history; nationalism; and ethnic conflict.

Dr. Doran has written and lectured extensively on political Islam; Middle East and Arab history and politics; and relations between the Middle East and the West. He has spoken before such groups as the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, the Conference on the Foreign Policy of Middle Eastern States, and the Pacific World Affairs Council.

Dr. Doran has been sought out to provide his insights in a number of publications, including the book "How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War" where he authored a chapter titled "Somebody Else's Civil War." Doran was also among a number of authoritative contributors in the book, "September 11, Terrorist Attacks, and U.S. Foreign Policy" (2002) providing his commentary in a chapter entitled, "The Pragmatic Fanaticism of al Qaeda: An Anatomy of Extremism in Middle Eastern Politics."

Doran has authored a number of articles including; "Beware the Islamist Backwaters," an OP-Ed piece in The Daily Star (January, 2004); the Foreign Affairs article, "The Saudi Paradox;" and the Washington Post Op-Ed piece entitled, "Intimate Enemies" (both February 2004). Doran also authored a study of the first Arab-Israeli war entitled, "Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question" (1999), and is currently working on a book on al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia. From 1997 to 2000, Doran served as assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida.

Doran earned his Ph.D. and Masters in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton. This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.

Dr. Logoglu brings nearly thirty-four years of service in the ministry of foreign affairs (MFA), addressing major areas of Turkey's external affairs, as well as Middle East and European matters. He has served as the ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the United States since October, 2001 and was undersecretary of the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs from 2000 to 2001. Dr. Logoglu served as the Turkish ambassador to Baku, Azerbaijan from 1996 to 1998 and to Copenhagen, Denmark from 1996 to 1998.

Earlier in his career, from 1973 to 1976, Logoglu held the position of first secretary at the European Union (then the EEC) and in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 1976 to 1978. During the 1980s Ambassador Logoglu was the head of the Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs where his responsibilities centered primarily on bilateral political affairs and Cyprus and Greece issues, serving as a Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations in New York from 1980 to 1984. From 1986 to 1989, Logoglu was the consulate general in Hamburg Germany. He was appointed the deputy undersecretary in 1998.

Prior to his service in the MFA, Dr. Logoglu was a lecturer in political science at Middlebury College in Vermont, from 1969 to 1970. He is author of the book entitled, "Ismet Inonu and the Making of Modern Turkey," a biography about the second president of the Turkish Republic.

Logoglu received his undergraduate and masters degree in political science at Brandeis University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1970.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the European Union Program and the Department of Near Eastern Studies. It is part of the series of Ambassador's Forum lectures. It is free and open to the public.

Cromartie is Vice President at the Washington, D.C. based Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), where he also directs the Evangelicals in Civic Life and Religion and the Media programs. The EPPC was established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy. Through its research and analysis programs and publications and conferences, EPPC explores the moral reasoning and public policy positions on a range of pressing issues including the war on terror and the challenges technology raises related to human dignity and freedom.

Cromartie' areas of interest and expertise are in Christianity and politics, the Evangelical Church in America, media coverage of religion, and the religious right. In September of 2004 Cromartie was nominated by President George W. Bush for a two-year term on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

During his career, Cromartie has served in a number of capacities as host of Radio America' weekly show "Faith and Life;" adjunct professor for the Reformed Theological Seminary; advisory editor for Christianity Today; Board of Director, Mars Hill Audio; and advisor for the PBS documentary series "With God on our Side: The Rise of the Christian Right in America."

Cromartie has been editor and co-editor of numerous publications and has been quoted on issues relating to religion and politics in the Washington Post, the New York Times, The New Republic, Christianity Today, U.S. News and World Report, the National Catholic Register, and the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Michael did his undergraduate work at Covenant College in Georgia, and received his M.A. in Justice from the American University in Washington D.C.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for the Study of Religion. It is part of the ongoing "Crossroads of Religion and Politics" series. It is free and open to the public.

Brian E. Carlson, a Senior Foreign Officer with the rank of Career Minister, took up his position as U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Latvia in November, 2001. Ambassador Carlson has served in Eastern and Western Europe and Latin America during his 32 year diplomatic career. During his career, Carlson managed worldwide operations for the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the State Department and produced President Clinton's "White House Conference on Culture and Diplomacy." He was credited during the Kosovo conflict with maintaining broad allied public support through public diplomacy actions. Earlier he helped found the U.S.-Spain Council and developed a four million dollar educational scholarship fund. In the years after 1989, Ambassador Carlson played a key role in fast growing U.S. public diplomacy programs in Eastern Europe, Russia and the new states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union.

Stanley N. Katz, lecturer with the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. Dr. Katz is an expert on American legal and constitutional history. He is active in the research field of arts and cultural policy, and currently serves as the director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School. His current research focuses upon the relationship of constitutionalism and civil society and on the prospects for constitutional democracy in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Steven J. Simmons serves on the nine-member, bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an independent federal agency which supervises all U.S. government-supported non-military international broadcasting, including the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), Radio and TV Martm, and WORLDNET Television. Simmons is also Chairman and CEO of the Greenwich Conn. cable company Patriot Media and Communications, LLC. From 1982-1994, Simmons was chairman and chief executive officer of Simmons Communications, Inc., a company that owned and managed cable companies. Earlier, he served as assistant and then associate director on the White House's domestic policy staff and taught law at the University of California at Irvine as assistant and then associate professor.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the American Foreign Policy Group. It is free and open to the public.

Whittle started his career at the World Bank in 1986. In 1987 Whittle moved to the Bank's Resident Mission in Indonesia where he worked on agricultural development and macroeconomic policy issues. In 1992 he returned to the U.S. to serve as senior economist and county officer in the Bank's Russia department. Here, Whittle addressed issues of housing reform, enterprise restructuring and energy efficiency. Whittle advanced to head of the New Products team in the Bank's Corporate Strategy Group and was later appointed the Group's senior partner and principal economist. In 1998 he, along with colleague Mari Kuraishi, was asked to lead the Group.

That same year Whittle and Kuraishi created the Innovation Marketplace; a competitive forum whereby Bank employees could propose ideas on how to fight world poverty, and if accepted, were given grant money to put these into action. The competition was well received and produced some of the Bank's most innovative and effective programs to date. Whittle and Kuraishi went on to create the Development Marketplace, which expanded the competition to socially conscious entrepreneurs on a global basis. The two took this a stage further in their creation of a second Development marketplace, whereby groups from all over the world were able to compete for multiple sources of funding for their programs.

Whittle (and Kuraishi) left the World Bank in October of 2000 to develop an internet-based Marketplace platform that would facilitate social and economic investment in developing countries. Their new company, GlobalGiving was launched in February, 2001. It is designed to bring donors and social and economic development groups together in an effort to help meet the needs in areas of philanthropy, employee giving and consumer-facing-cause marketing programs.

Whittle did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Masters in Public Affairs in 1986 from the Woodrow Wilson School.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Graduate Career Services. It is free and open to the public.

Col. Agoglia joined the Army's Peace Keeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) in the summer of 2004. Established in 2003, PKSOI is part of the Center for Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. The Institute functions as the Army's authority on strategic and operational peacekeeping and stability initiatives, focusing on issues concerning national decision-making and deployment of force commanders and their staffs.

Prior to joining PKSOI, Agoglia served at the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which he joined just four weeks before the September 11 attacks. During his three years with CENTCOM, Agoglia helped develop the organization's plans for Afghanistan and the Global War on Terror. He was also part of the initial planning group that initiated the campaign plan for Iraq. In May of 2003, Agoglia served as CENTCOM liaison officer to U.S. Civil Ambassador in Iraq, Paul Bremer where he worked on priority matters including the planning efforts between the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and the military; the transfer of police training from the CPA to the Coalition Joint Task Force 7; and the initial engagement strategy for senior military commanders with the newly appointed interim Iraqi government leaders (June, 2004).

Col. Agoglia is a 1980 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. He earned a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.

Przemyslaw Grudzinski has been Ambassador of Poland to the United States since 2000. Prior to his appointment, from 1997 to 2000, Grudzinski served as undersecretary of state at the Ministry to Foreign Affairs. From 1994 to 1997 he was a professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch, in Germany. Grudzinski served as deputy minister of national defense (policy) from 1992 to 1993, and was the director at the Bureau of Research for the Sejm (Parliament) and advisor to the deputy of minister for national defense during the years 1991 and 1990 respectively. During the 1980s Grudzinski was a member of the Solidarity Movement, which played an integral role in the fall of Poland's communist government, and became involved in independent publishing activities. Przemyslaw Grudzinski was also a professor of history at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw from 1976 to 1996. From 1978 to 1980 Grudzinski was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and later returned to Princeton in 1988 as a Fulbright fellow. He went on to teach as a visiting professor at UCLA in 1989.

Grudzinski earned an M.A. in History from the University of Nicolaus, Copernicus, Toru, and received his Ph.D. from the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.

White began his career with the Foreign Service in 1973. He served with the U.S. Embassy in Niamey, Niger as the General Services, Consular and Political/Military Affairs officer from 1974 to 1973 during the Sahel draught emergency. From 1976 to 1978 White served as chief of the non-immigrant visa section at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and subsequently as deputy chief of the immigrant visa section. White spent the latter part of 1978 and 1979 in Egypt, Israel and the Sinai Peninsula, serving as a peacekeeper with the U.S. Sinai Field Mission.

In late 1979, White joined the INR/NESA as editor of the INR's Arab-Israeli Situation Report for one year and analyst for Iraq until 1986. From 1986 to 1990, White served as analyst for Syria, the head of NESA's Lebanon crisis team and as deputy chief of INR/NESAs Arab-Israeli division.

From 1990 to 2002 White served as chief of the organization's Maghreb, Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Iraq division. He was later appointed, in 2002, deputy director and senior regional analyst. In 2003, during the Iraq war, White held the positions of INR principal Iraq analyst and headed the INR/NESAs Iraq team.

White has traveled extensively throughout Western and Northern Africa, the Levant, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, Europe, Russia, the Caribbean and Japan. Between 1983 and 1990, White took on special assignments as political officer in the U.S. Interests Section in Baghdad and briefer to foreign officials in the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan and Israel.

White has been the recipient of numerous awards including the State Department's Superior Honor Award (1991, 1993, 1997, and 2004), the State Department's Superior Honor Award (1980, 1982, and 1990), the INR Analyst of the Year Award, the Secretary's Career Achievement Award from Secretary Powell, the National Intelligence Certificate of Distinction for Service Award, the National Medal for Outstanding Achievement and a citation from the National Intelligence Council for his work in Iraq.

White received his Master of Arts degree in Middle Eastern history from Penn State University.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.

An award-winning New York Times reporter, DeParle joined the Times in 1989 and has spent nearly fifteen years covering urban issues addressing anti-poverty, child welfare, and welfare reform. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. Reporting from Washington, DeParle covered the debate leading to the 1996 law that abolished entitlement to cash assistance and created time limits and work requirements. Since that time he has written extensively about state efforts to implement the law.

In the author's recent book, "American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare," DeParle exposes the downside of welfare reform, following the lives of three single mothers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as they struggled to raise ten children while trying to get off welfare. The book examines the consequences of welfare reform and combines personal narratives that speak to the W-2 program's mismanagement and negligence, and instances where gains made by women leaving welfare were offset by new costs, long hours, lack of health insurance, and difficulty in finding affordable child care.

In 2000, DeParle was among five distinguished journalists and scholars selected as the 2000 Fall Fellows at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. He was the recipient of the 1999 George Polk Journalism Award for National Reporting, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Prior to joining the Times, DeParle was an editor at the Washington Monthly. He also wrote for The New Republic and the Times Picayune in New Orleans. From 1986 to 1987, DeParle was a Henry Luce Scholar in the Philippines, working with a community development group in a squatter camp. DeParle is a graduate of Duke University.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. It is free and open to the public.

Charles Snyder served as acting assistant secretary of state for African affairs from November 2003 to June, 2004. From 2001-2003 he served as principal deputy assistant secretary acting a policy point person for the Sudan Peace Initiative, framing policy toward Central Africa and managing policy planning and budget programming for the bureau. Prior to this, from 1995 to 2001 Snyder served as director of the office of regional affairs supporting the assistant secretary on crosscutting policy and program issues such as democracy, conflict resolution, human rights, labor, multilateral organizations, public affairs, congressional affairs, and crisis management.

Mr. Snyder served in the Senior Intelligence Service at the CIA as National Intelligence Officer for Africa from 1992 until April 1995. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1991 after 22 years of service. During the closing years of that career, he served as Senior Political-Military Advisor to States Africa Bureau. He served as military advisor on the team which mediated the Tripartite Agreement between Cuba, Angola, and South Africa; led the team that established the Joint Military Monitoring Commission which implemented the ceasefire along the Angola-Namibia border; chaired the military discussions supporting the Portuguese mediation of the Angolan Civil War; and led the U.S. technical team supporting the successful Italian effort to negotiate an end to the Mozambican Civil War.

Mr. Snyder received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Fordham University, a Master of Business Administration in International Finance from American University, and conducted additional post-graduate work in International Relations at Catholic and Howard Universities. He is a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Societies, a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of the Foreign Service Institute, and a life member of the African Studies Association.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Global Issues Forum and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. It is free and open to the public.

A leading authority on national and ethnic conflict within deeply divided territories, O'Leary is currently working on Kurdish interests in the constitutional reconstruction of Iraq serving as a constitutional advisor to the parliament and the Kurdish Regional Government. During this time, O'Leary has written several articles discussing this process, including A Transactional Law Worth Fighting For, which appeared in the Op-ed section of the Financial Times in April of '04, and "Multi-national Federalism, Federacy, Power-sharing and Kurds of Iraq," which was presented at the 2003 Georgetown University conference, "Multi-Nationalism, Power-Sharing and The Kurds in New Iraq." He is the author of several books including: The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements: The Politics of Antagonism; and most recently The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq, co-authored with John McGarry (May 2005).

O'Leary's research interests and expertise span the topics of national and ethnic conflict; conflict regulation; power sharing systems; democracy; human rights; and the history, political theory and political science of the state. He served as a leading public policy advisor to the British Labour Party and consultant on the Irish peace process. Dr. O'Leary has served an a constitutional consultant for the European Union, the United Nations in Somalia, and the United Kingdom's Department of International Development in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.

O'Leary joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 as the Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Professor of Social Sciences. Prior to this, from 1983 to 2002, O'Leary was with the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a faculty member and served as chairman of the Department of Government. Dr. O'Leary has held visiting appointments at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and the University of Western Ontario.

O'Leary did his undergraduate work at Oxford University and went on to earn his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he received the Robert McKenzie Memorial prize.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. It is free and open to the public.

The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Panelists will include: Dr. David Grande, Princeton 2nd year MPA student; Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; and Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology at Princeton.

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey was appointed President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2003. The Foundation provides funding to support training, education, and research initiatives to improve the quality of healthcare amongst Americans. She has served under both Republican and Democratic administrations as deputy administrator of the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, and most recently as co-chair of a congressionally requested study on racial inequalities in health care.

David Grande, Princeton 2nd year MPA student is a physician of internal medicine focused on health policy impacting disadvantaged populations. Dr. Grande merged his interests in medicine with policy and politics during medical school, becoming involved with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). After receiving his medical degree from Ohio State University, Dr. Grande served as ASMA president, working in the Washington, D.C. office. During this time, Grande focused the non-profit advocacy organization on campaigns for universal health care, reform of resident-physician work hours and diversity within the medical profession. In addition to his work at the Woodrow Wilson School, Grande serves as project consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, is a leading authority on health care economics. Reinhardt has been a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1978, and is a past president of the Association of Health Services Research. He has served as a commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Committee, and advised on issues related to payment of physicians.

Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology at Princeton has interests in medical sociology, political sociology, economic sociology and the sociology of knowledge. He is co-editor of the journal The American Prospect and is involved in public policy debates on health care and health insurance. Starr is Director of the Century Institute, and President of the Sandra Starr Foundation. His article "Winning Cases, Losing Voters" recently appeared in the New York Times (January, 26, 2005).

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is being held in conjunction with the art exhibition entitled "Uninsured Americans" currently on display in the Bernstein gallery. Robertson Hall. It is free and open to the public

A career environmentalist and resource specialist, Beinecke graduated from Yale University with a background in forestry and ecosystem studies and went on to the then nascent organization, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1973, where she has spent her entire career. On March 10 of this year, NRDC President and founding director John Adams announced that Beinecke would assume the presidency as of January, 2006.

Beinecke started with NRDC working to protect New York State's landscapes and end unnecessary off shore oil and gas development. She later headed a comprehensive organizational restructuring that kept NRDC at the strategic forefront in environmental advocacy. In 1998, Beinecke was appointed executive director and has served in the number two position in the organization since 1990.

Beinecke sits on the board of World Resources Institute and previously served as board chair of the Wilderness Society and the Adirondack Council. She is co-founder of the New York League of Conservation Voters (along with Paul Elston and Laurence Rockefeller).

Beinecke received her master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy and the Princeton Environmental Institute. It is free and open to the public.

Dr. Doran is an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton. He is among the leading academic authorities on U.S. foreign policy; modern Middle East issues; Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process; terrorism; diplomatic history; nationalism; and ethnic conflict.

Dr. Doran has written and lectured extensively on political Islam; Middle East and Arab history and politics; and relations between the Middle East and the West. He has spoken before such groups as the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, the Conference on the Foreign Policy of Middle Eastern States, and the Pacific World Affairs Council.

Dr. Doran has been sought out to provide his insights in a number of publications, including the book "How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War" where he authored a chapter titled "Somebody Else's Civil War." Doran was also among a number of authoritative contributors in the book, "September 11, Terrorist Attacks, and U.S. Foreign Policy" (2002) providing his commentary in a chapter entitled, "The Pragmatic Fanaticism of al Qaeda: An Anatomy of Extremism in Middle Eastern Politics."

Doran has authored a number of articles including: "Beware the Islamist Backwaters," an Op-Ed piece in The Daily Star (January, 2004); the Foreign Affairs article, "The Saudi Paradox;" and the Washington Post Op-Ed piece entitled, "Intimate Enemies" (both February 2004). Doran also authored a study of the first Arab-Israeli war entitled, "Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question" (1999), and is currently working on a book on al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia. From 1997 to 2000, Doran served as assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida.

Doran earned his Ph.D. and Masters in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton. This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.

David J. Nash has over four decades building, design and program management with the U.S. Navy and the private sector. In September 2004 Nash started with the Alabama based BE&K; one of the southeast's largest privately held companies. The company focuses on pulp and paper construction, power/cogeneration construction, and process and industrial manufacturing construction. In 2004, Nash was named one of the top 25 newsmakers in the construction industry by trade publication, "Engineering News-Record." Prior to joining BE&K, Nash served as director of the Iraq Program Management Office (PMO) where he oversaw $18.4 billion in Iraq infrastructure reconstruction projects funded by the U.S. government. In June 2004, he was named director of both the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (IRMO) and the Project and Contracting Office (PCO), successor to the PMO, focused on construction and non-construction projects assigned to the U.S. Army.

During his naval career Nash held the dual positions of commander, naval facilities engineering command and chief of civil engineers. Here, he oversaw the 20,000 person operation responsible for the design, construction facilities maintenance support, real estate, housing management, utilities procurement, environmental service transportation equipment and support of the Navy's military engineers. He also served as commander of the Pacific Division Naval Facilities Command, and the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Port Hueneme, Calif.

After retiring from the Navy, Nash worked for Parsons Brinkerhoff Construction Services, where he first served as program director of the General Motors Corporation at the Warren Technical Center campus in Warren, MI, and later as director for the Automotive/Industrial division. In 2002 Nash was appointed president of PB Buildings, a company focused on program management, design, construction and operations and maintenance services for commercial buildings, hotels, industrial and manufacturing facilities. Nash left PB Buildings to join BE&K.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.

Glasser and Baker served as the Post's Moscow bureau chiefs until late 2004 covering Russia and fourteen former Soviet republics. Their nearly four year tour dovetailed with the rise of Vladimir Putin and put them at the center of several political, economic and terrorist world news events including the revival of the Russian economy, the rollback of Russian democracy, the state attack on Russias richest men, the second Chechen war, and terrorist acts in the Moscow theater and school in Beslan. Their book, "Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and the Russian Counter-Revolution," is due out in the fall of 2005.

Following the September 11 attacks, the two covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Baker was the first American newspaper journalist into Afghanistan where he lived with anti-Taliban rebels and spent eight months covering the conflict and new government. While in Iraq, Baker reported from Saddam Hussein's Baghdad and later was embedded with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force during the U.S. invasion. Glasser covered the battle at Tora Bora in Afghanistan and traveled the Afghan countryside interviewing warlords and drug lords. Glasser also reported independently in southern Iraq, documenting the tortures of the Hussein regime and the disorder of the post-Hussein period.

Before going overseas, Glasser was a national political correspondent for the Washington Post where she wrote about the intersection of money and politics in America. Prior to this, she served as the Post's deputy national editor for investigations where she oversaw coverage of the Monica Lewinsky probe and subsequent impeachment hearings. Glasser joined the Post in 1998, leaving an eight year stay with Roll Call, a twice weekly newspaper that covers Congress, where she rose from intern to editor. Glasser did her undergraduate work at Harvard University.

Prior to his foreign assignment, Baker served as the Post's White House correspondent covering the Clinton Administration. During this time he co-wrote the original story on the Lewinsky investigation and went on to become the Post's lead writer on the scandal and impeachment battle. Baker went on to author the New York Times bestseller, "The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton." Baker started with the Washington Post in 1988 as part of its Virginia staff. Prior to the Post, he worked at the Washington Times. Baker did his undergraduate work at Oberlin College.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is part of the series entitled, "Journalists Writing the World," moderated by Professor Gary Bass. It is free and open to the public.

Robert Silverman joined the Foreign Service in 1989 at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem as a junior political officer. In 1991 he became a financial economist in the Office of Investment Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. Later that year Silverman took on the role of economic and commercial counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 1994, Silverman was assigned the Kuwait Desk Officer position in the Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the State Department. He went on to study Arabic at the State Departments school in Tunis, which served as the springboard for taking on the position of political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt in 1997. In 2000, Silverman moved to the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey and served as deputy economic counselor, where he stayed until he assumed the position deputy director of the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs (Iran and Iraq) in 2003. The Office of Northern Gulf Affairs (Iran and Iraq), known previously as the Office of Special Plans until July of 2003, is a Pentagon unit created by Donald Rumsfeld to deal with intelligence issues. Prior to the Foreign Service, Silverman worked as an attorney in Los Angeles, California.

Silverman is a 1982 graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1985.

This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is free and open to the public.