Bob Gallucci, President, MacArthur Foundation
| Event Type: | Lecture |
| Location: | Carpenter Library Room B21 |
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Marge Pyle
610-526-5156
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| Department: | President's Office |
Robert Gallucci will give a lecture, titled "We Have to Talk: The Urgency of Dialogue Between International Relations Scholarship and Policy," as part of the Presidential Lecture Series.
Gallucci is president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Previously, he served for 13 years as dean of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He completed 21 years of government service, serving since August 1994 with the U.S. Department of State as Ambassador at Large. In March 1998, the Department of State announced his appointment as Special Envoy to deal with the threat posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. He held this position, concurrent with his appointment as dean, until January 2001. Gallucci has a doctorate in politics from Brandeis University. Before joining the State Department, he taught at Swarthmore College, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and Georgetown University.