Great Power Competition: America’s Challenges and Opportunities with Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky - Video

The Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service invites you to join us for a talk by Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center and former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, on the challenges that the United States will face.

Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, a foreign policy expert and former diplomat specializing in national security affairs, is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. With more than 25 years in national security affairs, she held high level positions including as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, President’s Envoy to Northern Ireland receiving the Secretary of State’s highest honor the Distinguished Service Medal, NSC Director of European and Soviet Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. She also served on the Defense Policy Board and the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Board.

A member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and CFR, Ambassador Dobriansky was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Thomson Reuters, and the Distinguished National Security Chair, U.S. Naval Academy. She served as Senior Vice President and Director of the CFR Washington Office and was the first George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

A Fulbright-Hays scholar and Phi Beta Kappa, she received a B.S.F.S. summa cum laude, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Soviet political/military affairs from Harvard University.

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