A Conversation on U.S. Foreign Policy

Edward, A50, and Vivian Merrin, A80P, A82P, A85P
in partnership with the
Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University

cordially invite you to join us for a special presentation:

"A Conversation on U.S. Foreign Policy"

featuring

Leslie H Gelb, A59, H09
President Emeritus, The Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Recipient

Following his prepared remarks, Dr. Gelb will be joined for a discussion by
IGL Alumni Matan Chorev and Lauren Lovelace

Saturday, September 21
2pm reception | 3pm program

The Merrin Garden
2547 Maple Avenue, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567

The Merrin Garden has been featured in several books and magazines, most notably in The New Garden Paradise: Great Private Gardens of the World.
Guests are encouraged to explore the gardens, which stretch for more than six acres, both before and after the 3pm program.

Please RSVP by phone: 888.320.4103 or email: rsvpevents@tufts.edu
Please register early, space is limited.

Travel Information for those planning to use Metro-North -- take Metro-North to the Peekskill Station, there will be a shuttle running between the station and the gardens for the event.

Bios
Dr. Leslie H. Gelb
Dr. Leslie H. Gelb is among America's most prominent foreign policy experts. A Pulitzer Prize winner, former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in state and defense departments, he is currently president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), having served as president of the organization from 1993 to 2003.  Prior to his tenure as president of the Council, Dr. Gelb established a distinguished career at the New York Times, where he was a columnist from 1991 to 1993, deputy editorial page editor from 1986 to 1990, and editor of the op-ed page from 1988 to 1990. He was national security correspondent for the Times from 1981 to 1986, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1985. He was diplomatic correspondent at the Times from 1973 to 1977.  Dr. Gelb was senior advocate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1980 to 1981, where he was consultant to the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. From 1977 to 1979, he was an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, serving as director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, where he received the highest State Department award: the Distinguished Honor Award. He was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1969 to 1973, during which time he was also a visiting professor at Georgetown University. He was director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense from 1967 to 1969, where he also served as director of the Pentagon Papers Project. While at the Defense Department, Dr. Gelb won the Pentagon's highest award, the Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Gelb received his BA from Tufts University in 1959 and his MA in 1961 and PhD in 1964 from Harvard University. He is the author of Anglo-American Relations, 1945-1950: Toward a Theory of Alliances (1988). He is also co-author of The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (1980), which won him the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award; Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (1984), and Claiming the Heavens (Star Wars) (1988).

Matan Chorev
Matan Chorev joined the U.S. Department of State in February 2013 as a speechwriter and special assistant in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of State. He previously served as a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Executive Director for the Future of National Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a Rosenthal Fellow at the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning.

Matan holds a BA from Tufts and a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.  Matan was a co-founder of the New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) at the Institute, a student in the 2003-04 EPIIC year, and a TA for EPIIC 2006-07.

Lauren Lovelace
Lauren Lovelace is Executive Director of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council at Georgetown University. A career Foreign Service Officer, Lauren has served in India; Egypt; the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in NY; the International Visitor Leadership Program in NY; Washington DC; and most recently Bangladesh, where she launched a groundbreaking public-private partnership to engage, inspire, connect, and empower Bangladesh’s 80% youth majority through public service.

Lauren speaks French, Arabic, and Russian. She holds a BA from Tufts University; a Masters in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School; a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Kentucky; and a graduate certificate from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Lauren is a recipient of the State Department’s Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards.  Lauren was in the EPIIC 1990-91 year.