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Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics and the International & Global Affairs Area
Student Co-Moderators: Catherine Leland, MPP ’13 & IGA Concentrator and Shloka Nath, MPP’13
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN DEVELOPMENT AS DIPLOMACY?
Gain an intimate knowledge of how development as diplomacy works by speaking with former U.S. Ambassador Timothy Roemer, who will join students in a student-moderated conversation. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador to India in 2009, Roemer was President of the Center for National Policy, a national security think tank in Washington, D.C, as well as a Congressional Representative from Indiana’s 3rd District. Fun Fact: Roemer was one of the original sponsors of the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security.
Some big-picture diplomatic decisions during Roemer’s tenure as ambassador to the world’s largest democracy:
• Removal of India from the U.S. “Entity List,” opening the door for increased cooperation, technology transfer, and commercial sales in the defense and space industries.
• Counterterrorism Cooperation Initiative agreement signed to increase cooperation between India and U.S. on transportation security, border security, money laundering and terrorist financing, and megacity policing.
Roemer made particular efforts in ‘soft diplomacy’: visiting villages in 17 states, working closely with women’s empowerment groups, and advocating for the use and availability of smokeless cookstoves.
About the Speaker:
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Roemer graduated from the University of California, San Diego, and later earned his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. in American government (1986) at Notre Dame.
From 1991 to 2003 Roemer served six terms as representative for the 3rd congressional district in the House of Representatives. He was appointed to the Intelligence Committee's Task Force on Homeland Security and Terrorism and was recognized for his successful leadership on issues such as bipartisan legislation to balance the budget. Roemer was the key author of the legislation in the House of Representatives to establish the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
Roemer left Congress in 2002 and served as a member of the 9/11 Commission. Prior to becoming Ambassador to India in 2009, Roemer was President of the Center for National Policy (CNP) in Washington, D.C. a moderate think-tank dedicated to finding bipartisan solutions to America's most important national security challenges. He has been a distinguished scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and has served on: The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism; The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Presidential Task Force on Combating the Ideology of Radical Extremism; the National Parks Second Century Commission; the Adams Memorial Foundation; and the State Department-funded Meridian International Center. He has also served on the boards of the Oshkosh Truck Corporation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Roemer is a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics.
