Keynote Address by

Dr. Leslie H. Gelb

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus

“Truth and Lies in U.S. Foreign Policy”

Presentations

Network 20/20 Visionary Award
Founding Chairman Geraldine S. Kunstadter

Global Leadership Award
to An International Pacesetter

Ted Sorensen Award
to An Outstanding Member

Live Music, Cocktails, and Gourmet Hors D’oeuvres

Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 6:00 – 9:00 pm

The Racquet and Tennis Club
370 Park Avenue at 53rd Street

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Dr. Trita Parsi is the President and founder of the National Iranian American Council, the largest Iranian American grassroots organization in the US, and is the author of Treacherous Alliance – The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States. As a foreign policy expert with extensive experience on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations, he has also authored numerous articles on Middle East affairs with publications in the Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review, the Nation, The Wall Street Journal, The American Conservative, the Jerusalem Post, and The Forward. He is also a frequent commentator on BBC World News, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, Al Jazeera, C-Span, NPR, MSNBC, and Democracy Now. Dr. Parsi is the recipient of the Grawemeyer 2010 Award for Improving the World Order, and the 2008 Arthur Ross Silver Medallion. He has previously served as an adjunct professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Dr. Parsi was born in Iran, grew up in Sweden, and earned a Master’s Degree in International Relations at Uppsala University, a second Master’s Degree in Economics at Stockholm School of Economics and a PhD in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University SAIS.

Lena is a former White House Fellow with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was appointed by the President in 2006 to the forty-four year old non-partisan leadership program, along with 13 other nationally selected Americans.

Prior to her appointment as a White House Fellow, Lena was an Investment Representative at the Private Investment Management Division of Lehman Brothers. And prior to that, she was a Private Banker at the JPMorgan Private Bank in New York.

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Steven A. Cook is Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Dr. Cook is the author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square and Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey.

Dr. Cook has published widely in a variety of foreign policy journals, opinion magazines, and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, Journal of Democracy, The Weekly Standard, Slate, The New Republic Online, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, and Survival. Dr. Cook is also a frequent commentator on radio and television. He currently writes the blog, “From the Potomac to the Euphrates.”

Previously, Dr. Cook was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Soref research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Dr. Cook holds a BA in international studies from Vassar College, an MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and both an MA and PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. He speaks Arabic and Turkish and reads French.

Andrew Selee is director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, which promotes dialogue and understanding between the United States and Mexico. Dr. Selee is currently an adjunct professor of Government at Johns Hopkins University in the Advanced Academic Programs. He has previously been an adjunct professor of Political Science at George Washington University and a visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico.

Dr. Selee has published extensively including two of his more recent publications: Mexico’s Democratic Challenges and Shared Responsibility: U.S.-Mexico Policy Options for Confronting Organized Crime. Dr. Selee is interviewed frequently in the press, including PBS, CBS, NBC, Fox, NPR, BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and The Economist. He serves on the board of the Mexico-U.S. Fulbright Program, the editorial board the journal Latin American Policy, and is also a contributing editor to the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies. Prior to joining the Wilson Center in 2000, Selee was a congressional staffer and worked for five years in Tijuana, Mexico on migrant youth and community development programs. He has a PhD in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland and an MA in Latin American Studies from UCSD.

Ambassador Robert P. Finn, Associate Research Scholar in the Liechtenstein Institute of the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, provides a cutting edge perspective on the interconnection between policy, energy, business and religion in Turkey’s foreign affairs. With his extensive expertise and diplomatic service in the region, Ambassador Finn further explores the question of Turkey’s long-term political and economic stability, as it continues to emerge as critical player in global politics.

Prior to his experience as a lecturer and research scholar at Princeton University, Ambassador Finn served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan in more than 20 years, in 2002, and has also been U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan. Other diplomatic postings include Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, Turkey; Lahore, Pakistan; and Zagreb, Croatia, and opened the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan in 1992. He is the author of the book The Early Turkish Novel, which has been published both in English and Turkish, and has received numerous awards, including two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards and one for heroism. Ambassador Finn holds a B.A. in American Literature and European History from St. John’s University, an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University, and an M.A. and Ph. D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey and a Fulbright scholar at Istanbul University, and speaks more than ten languages.