Global Connections Lunchtime Series: Haiti (Tue, May 29, 2012)

Tue, 29 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT

The World Affairs Council of Maine
presents

Haiti

with Ambassador Brian Dean Curran

Free Donations Accepted Bring your lunch

Brian Dean Curran

Brian Dean Curran was United States Ambassador to Haiti from 2001 to 2003.

Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Curran served as U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique (1997-2000). His previous assignments have included positions as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (1994-1996), Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. embassy in Dublin (1987-1991), Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1985-1987), and assignments to the U.S. embassies in Paris, Guinea Bissau, and Niger, and to the U.S. Mission to the European communities in Brussels, Belgium.

A native of Maine, Ambassador Curran now lives in Damariscotta. He serves on the board of Konbit Sante.

Ambassador Curran graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1970. He received a Master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1972 and a Certificate of Studies from the National School of Administration in Paris, France in 1981.

This program is free. Donations to support the work of the World Affairs Council of Maine are welcome.

We thank our Emissary partner for their
generous sponsorship of this series:

Annual Meeting and International Leadership Award Dinner with Ambassador Rick Barton (Thu, June 14, 2012)

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Please join us on
Thursday, June 14, 2012
for the

World Affairs Council of Maine's
Annual Meeting and Dinner
featuring

Ambassador (Frederick) Rick Barton

Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict
and Stabilization Operations

Speaking on

Conflict Prevention:
The Role of the US in
the 21st Century

Ambassador Rick Barton will also be
honored with the Council's
2012 International Leadership Award

Portland Country Club
11 Foreside Road, Falmouth, Maine

5:00 pm World Affairs Council of Maine's Annual Business Meeting
5:30 pm Reception
6:30 pm Dinner and Program

Ambassador Rick Barton

Ambassador Rick Barton, a native of Maine, was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations and Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization on April 3, 2012. The Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations was recently established within the U.S. State Department to advance U.S. national security by driving integrated, civilian-led efforts to prevent, respond to, and stabilize crises in priority states, setting conditions for long-term peace.

Ambassador Barton was the first President of the World Affairs Council of Maine, serving from 1979-1983. He was also President of Barton & Gingold, a strategy and public relations firm in Portland, until he left for Washington in 1994.

Mr. Barton has worked to improve the U.S. and international response to conflict in more than 30 of the world’s most unstable places. He led independent reviews of Iraq reconstruction; developed civilian strategies for Iraq, Sudan, and Sri Lanka; created new measurements of progress in Iraq and Afghanistan; and initiated path-breaking approaches to conflict reduction in Pakistan and Nigeria.

The leadership positions he has held in this field include Co-Director of the Post Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Deputy High Commissioner of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), and founding director of the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Transition Initiatives.

Previously, Mr. Barton served for nearly two years as the U.S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), with the rank of Ambassador. In this position, he worked on development, peace building, climate change, and human rights. Mr. Barton served on the Smart Power Commission, as an expert adviser to the Iraq Study Group, and as professor and lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. He led conflict-related working groups at the United States Institute of Peace and for the Princeton Project on National Security.

Mr. Barton is a past chairman of the Maine Democratic Party. He graduated from Harvard College and earned his Master in Business Administration from Boston University. As the children of American diplomats, Mr. Barton and his brothers lived in Argentina, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Mexico. Married since 1975, Mr. Barton and Kit Lunney have an adult daughter, Kacy, and live in Washington, D.C.

World Affairs Council of Maine Upcoming Events

Global Connections Lunchtime Series: Haiti (Tue, May 29, 2012)

Annual Meeting and International Leadership Award Dinner with Ambassador Rick Barton (Thu, June 14, 2012)