BCSIA Open Discussion with Jendayi E. Frazer

About

BCSIA Open Discussion

with

Jendayi E. Frazer

U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Open Discussion with Jendayi E. Frazer, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. Ambassador Frzaer was nominated March 22, 2004 as the United States Ambassador to South Africa, and sworn-in on June 17, 2004.  She was confirmed by the Senate on May 21, 2004. She arrived in South Africa on August 3, 2004 and presented her credentials to President Mbeki on August 10, 2004.

Ambassador Frazer served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from February 22, 2001 until her swearing-in as Ambassador. She came to the NSC from Harvard University, where she was serving as an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. As a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, she served as a political-military planner with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Department of Defense, and as Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. She also worked on African security issues with the State Department's International Military Education Training programs and the United Nations Development Program.

Dr. Frazer was a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University; a research associate at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya; a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; and editor of the journal Africa Today.

Dr. Frazer graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Political Science and African and African-American Studies, M.A.s in International Policy Studies and International Development Education, and a Ph.D. in Political Science.

We hope you can join us for what will be an interesting and informative discussion.