Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include the correct event date. This event will be held Tuesday, Sept. 17.
The Office for Diversity Equity and Inclusive Engagement will host a Power of Diversity Lecture Series event Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A.
The event will feature a discussion by Ambassador Dennis Ross, counselor and the William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Ross will present “Understanding The Middle East Conflicts from a Diplomat’s View.”
He also teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. For more than 12 years, Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process, dealing directly with the parties as the U.S. point person on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He served two and half years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, spending the first six months of the Administration as the special advisor on Iran to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, Ross served as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. He played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition. During the Reagan administration, he served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and deputy director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment.