"The Rise of Populism in Europe and the Future of Democracy.” - with Lord Peter Ricketts and Radek Sikorski

Open to the Public

Join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a seminar the challenges facing the European Union and the transatlantic relationship with Lord Peter Ricketts, former U.K. Ambassador to France and first U.K. National Security Advisory, and Radoslaw Sikorski, former Foreign Minister for Poland in a conversation hosted by Faculty Director Nicholas Burns.

Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2018 Time: 04:15pm - 05:45pm Location: Belfer Building - Bell Hall, 5th Floor

Radoslaw (Radek) Sikorski is a Fisher Family Fellow (in residence in April 2018). His is a Distinguished Statesman at the CSIS and a Senior Advisor at the Eurasia Group. He was previously a senior figure in Polish politics, serving as speaker of Poland’s lower house, as foreign minister in Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s cabinet from (2007 - 2014) and as defense minister in (2005 – 2007). He also held earlier positions in government, including as deputy minister of national defense in 1992 and as deputy minister of foreign affairs from 1998-2001. With Carl Bildt, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, he is seen as one of the principle architects of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy. In his early career, Sikorski was a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Angola.

Lord Peter Ricketts is a Fisher Family Fellow (in residence in April 2018) and a life peer in the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. Ricketts has spent 40 years as a member of the diplomatic service. His final post was as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to France from 2012 until 2016. Ricketts served as the United Kingdom’s first national security adviser from 2010 until 2012, and in that role was the coordinator of the 2010 National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review.