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Past Event
Director Series

Three Modes of Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and SecDef Styles

RSVP Required Open to the Public

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a directors' seminar with Ambassador Eric S. Edelman, Senior Associate at the International Security Program and visiting scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies and Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. RSVP if you would like to attend at belfer_events@hks.harvard.edu

Belfer Center Director's Seminars are strictly off-the-record.  By indicating your desire to attend the seminar, you agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the contents of the seminar.  Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions.  Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events.

 

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

About

Ambassador Eric S. Edelman retired as a Career Minister from the U.S. Foreign Service on May 1, 2009.  He has served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense as well as the White House.  He was the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (August 2005-January 2009).  He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Turkey and Finland and was Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.  He has been Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of State, a special assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and special assistant to Secretary of State George Shultz.  His other assignments include the State Department Operations Center,  Prague, Moscow, and Tel Aviv, where he was a member of the U.S. Middle East Delegation to the West Bank/Gaza Autonomy Talks.  He received a B.A. in History and Government from Cornell University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in U.S. Diplomatic History from Yale University in 1981.  His research interests include:  the practice of diplomacy, defense policy, incipient nuclear powers and extended deterrence, anti-americanism, counterinsurgency and interagency operations, as well as civil-military relations.

As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. RSVP if you would like to attend at belfer_events@hks.harvard.edu

Belfer Center Director's Seminars are strictly off-the-record.  By indicating your desire to attend the seminar, you agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the contents of the seminar.  Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions.  Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events.