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THE FOREIGN POLICY INSTITUTE
Featured Fellow
Maureen White is a Senior Fellow at The Foreign Policy Institute. She was the Senior Advisor on Humanitarian Issues in the Office of the Special Representation to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the U.S. Department of State from 2009-2013 and is an expert on the refugee crisis in the Middle East. She serves on the boards of numerous organizations involved in international humanitarian issues including the International Rescue Committee, National Democratic Institute, Center for Global Development, International Women’s Health Coalition and, in the past, Human Rights Watch and Refugees International.
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Featured Event
Please join the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) for the
First Annual Betty Lou Hummel Memorial Lecture
featuring best-selling author ROBERT D. KAPLAN.
"Why So Much Geopolitical Turbulence?"
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
4:30pm
Kenney Auditorium
1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Mr. Kaplan's recent books include Asia’s Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography andMonsoon. He is a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security in Washington and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where his work has appeared for three decades. He was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, and a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, appointed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
The Hummel Lecture will be followed by a reception hosted by FPI, SAIS China Studies, and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center celebrating the Chinese New Year.
Betty Lou Firstenberger Hummel was a member of SAIS' first graduating class of 1946 who spent her adult life serving alongside her husband in diplomatic posts around the world. Thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Hummel's friends through the Betty Lou Hummel Endowed Fund, we remember Betty Lou's life and her contributions to SAIS with a lecture that presents new perspectives on international policy challenges from leading global thinkers.
Events at FPI
First Annual Betty Lou Hummel Memorial Lecture: "Why So Much Geopolitical Turbulence?"
ISIS and Implications for the Security of the Middle East and West
National Insecurity: An Interview with David Rothkopf, President and CEO of Foreign Policy Magazine
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