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New Leadership in Iran: Time For Rapprochement?
New Leadership in Iran: Time For Rapprochement?
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4:00 PM WELCOMING REMARKS John Wass Associate, American Iranian Council Manuela Kurkaa Organizer of Academic Programming, GW University International Affairs Society 4:15 NEW LEADERSHIP IN IRAN: TIME FOR RAPPROCHEMENT? Amb.
William
Miller
Board
Member,
American
Iranian
Council Dr.
Patrick
Clawson
Director
of
Research,
The
Washington
Institute
for
Near
East
Policy
Prof.
Hooshang
Amirahmadi
Professor,
Rutgers
University
&
Founder
and
President,
American
Iranian
Council
Dr.
Andrew
Parasiliti
Editor
&
CEO,
Al-Monitor.com
5:15
Q&A
5:45 CLOSING REMARKS Kayvon Afshari Director of Communications, American Iranian Council
BIOGRAPHY OF SPEAKERS
Ambassador William Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has led a distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service, U.S. Senate staff, academia, foundations, and non-profit organizations. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine from 1993 to 1998. Ambassador Miller had previously served as political officer for the U.S. Embassy in Tehran from 1962 to 1964 as well as the U.S. Consulate in Isfahan, Iran from 1959 to 1962. He spent 14 years on Capitol Hill, where he served as the staff director for three different Senate committees, including the Select Committee on Intelligence. Ambassador Miller has taught at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
Dr. Patrick Clawson is Director of Research at The Washington Institute, where he directs the Iran Security Initiative. Widely consulted as an analyst and media commentator, he has authored more than 150 articles about the Middle East and international economics and is the author or editor of eighteen books or studies on Iran. Dr. Clawson appears frequently on television and radio, and has published oped articles in major newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. He has also testified before congressional committees more than twenty times and has served as an expert witness in more than thirty federal cases against Iran. Prior to joining The Washington Institute, he was a senior research professor at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies, a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and a research scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
BIOGRAPHY OF SPEAKERS
Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi is the Founder and President of the American Iranian Council. He is also a professor and former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. He holds a PhD from Cornell University and is a Senior Associate Member at Oxford University in the U.K. His publications include The Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars, Revolution and Economic Transition, and three other books in Persian on civil society, industrial policy, and geopolitics of energy. Dr. Amirahmadi is also editor of ten books on Iran and the Middle East, and 16 conference proceedings on US-Iran relations, as well as numerous journal articles.
Dr. Andrew Parasiliti is Editor & CEO of Al-Monitor.com. He serves on the Board of Directors of the US Friends of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining Al-Monitor, Dr. Parasiliti was Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies-US and Corresponding Director, IISS-Middle East; Principal, Government AffairsInternational, at The BGR Group; Foreign Policy Advisor to US Senator Chuck Hagel; Director of the Middle East Initiative at the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and Director of Programs at the Middle East Institute. He received a Ph.D. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
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