Past Event
Seminar

Iran, Israel, the Middle East and the US: Where Do We go From Here?

Open to the Public

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Priority seating for Harvard ID holders

 

Gary Samore - Executive Director for Research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He served as President Obama's White House Coordinator for Arms Control and was Special Assistant to the President on Nonproliferation and Export controls during the Clinton Administration.

 

Jeremy Burton - Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC) which represents the organized Jewish community in the public square.  Previously he was the Senior VP of Programs at Jewish Funds for Justice, and VP of Programs at the Jewish Funders Network.

 

Brooke Kantor '15 studied Near Eastren Languages and Civilizations and Government at Harvard and has interned in the economic and political sections of the US Embassy in Kuwait, at the Institute for the Study of War, and as an Iraq counterterrorism analyst.

 

Moderater Jim Sebenius - Gordon Donaldson Professor at HBS, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.  He specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations and co-chairs a project to conduct extensive interviews with all former US Secretaries of State.

 

Funding for this Forum was provided by David and Clare Weinstein

 

Co-Sponsored by Harvard Hillel, Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Program on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.