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Ukraine and Russia: A Conversation with Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch<\/span><\/h1>\n

March 30, 2023<\/span><\/h3>\n

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm<\/span><\/h3>\n

Kane Hall Room 130<\/span><\/h3>\n

University of Washington<\/span><\/h3>\n

SOLD OUT!<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Photographer – Jennifer Watkins<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

About the Speaker<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Marie Yovanovitch<\/strong> is the author of a New York Times<\/em> best-selling memoir, Lessons from the<\/em> Edge<\/em>.\u00a0 She is also a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University.\u00a0 Previously, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019), the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011) and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008).<\/p>\n

She also served as the Dean of the School of Language Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State and as the Deputy Commandant and International Advisor at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, National Defense University. \u00a0Earlier she served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she coordinated policy on European and global security issues.\u00a0 Before that, she was the bureau\u2019s Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for issues related to the Nordic, Baltic, and Central European countries.<\/p>\n

\"\" In 2003-2004, Ambassador Yovanovitch was the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. \u00a0Prior to that, she was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. \u00a0Within the Department of State, Ambassador Yovanovitch has worked on the Russia desk, the Office of European Security Affairs, and the Operations Center. \u00a0She has also worked overseas at the U.S. Embassies in Moscow, London, Ottawa, and Mogadishu.<\/p>\n

A Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Yovanovitch has earned the Senior Foreign Service Performance Award eight times and the State Department\u2019s Superior Honor Award on nine occasions.\u00a0 She is also the recipient of two Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the Secretary\u2019s Diplomacy in Human Rights Award.<\/p>\n

Following her retirement in 2020, Ambassador Yovanovitch received the Trainor Award for Excellence in the Conduct of Diplomacy from Georgetown University, the inaugural Richard G. Lugar Award from Indiana University, the 2020 PEN\/Benenson Courage Award from Pen\/America, the Morgenthau Award from the Armenian Assembly of America, the American Spirit Award for Distinguished Public Service from the Common Good, the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government, and the Vandenberg Award.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Yovanovitch is a graduate of Princeton University where she earned a BA in History and Russian Studies. \u00a0She studied at the Pushkin Institute and received an MS from the National Defense University.<\/p>\n

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About the Moderator<\/span><\/h3>\n

Carol J. Williams<\/strong> (UW \u201977) is a retired foreign correspondent who covered revolution and war for 30-plus years for Associated Press and Los Angeles Times.\u00a0She has reported from more than \"\" 80 countries, with a focus on USSR\/Russia and Eastern Europe. She has been awarded more than a dozen international reporting honors, including five Overseas Press Club awards and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1994 for her coverage of the Balkan wars. Retired from mainstream journalism, she curates \u201cWorld Briefing by CJ Williams\u201d on Twitter\u00a0@cjwilliamslat, writes on foreign affairs for Seattle\u2019s\u00a0PostAlley.org, and speaks on media and foreign policy at events held by civic groups, libraries and University of Washington\u2019s Jackson School of International Studies.<\/p>\n

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Sponsors<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The annual Herbert J. Ellison Memorial Lecture\u00a0<\/span>is sponsored by the\u00a0Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Washington in partnership with the\u00a0Henry M. Jackson Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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