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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Directors' Seminar with Sir John Sawers on Thursday, October 23rd in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Sir John Sawers took up his appointment as UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in August 2007. Sir John was previously Political Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a post he held since August 2003. In this post he advised the Foreign Secretary on political and security issues worldwide, and negotiated on behalf of the Foreign Secretary with international partners in the G8, EU and the UN. He was closely involved in policy on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. Prior to this job he served two years in the Middle East, as Ambassador to Cairo 2001-03, and, for three months he was the British Government's Special Representative in Baghdad.
From January 1999 until the summer of 2001, he was Foreign Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair for Foreign and Defence Policy and worked closely with international counterparts. He also worked on Northern Ireland and the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
From 1995 - 1998, he was in the United States. He spent a year as an International Fellow at Harvard University and then joined the British Embassy. Prior to joining the embassy, Sawers was Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. The period was dominated by war in Bosnia, crises in the Middle East, and the debate in Britain on the European Union.
In his early career, Sir John worked in Yemen and Syria, and was in South Africa from 1988-91 during the first part of the transition from Apartheid. Between his overseas excursions, he worked in London, mainly on EU business. He studied Physics and Philosophy at Nottingham University, and spent time at the Universities of St. Andrews, Witwatersrand and Harvard.
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