Federal Event: Please join us on Thursday, December 10th for the next CISSM Forum: "Getting a new START"
Bring your own lunch; chips, cookies, and drinks will be provided.
Time:
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, Thursday, December 10th
Place:
1107 Van Munching Hall, School of Public Policy
Speaker:
Greg Thielmann, Senior Fellow, Arms Control Association
Greg Thielmann most recently served as a senior professional staffer of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). Prior to joining the SSCI in 2005, he was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for 25 years, last serving as Director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
Bring your own lunch; chips, cookies, and drinks will be provided.
Time:
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm, Thursday, December 10th
Place:
1107 Van Munching Hall, School of Public Policy
Speaker:
Greg Thielmann, Senior Fellow, Arms Control Association
Greg Thielmann most recently served as a senior professional staffer of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). Prior to joining the SSCI in 2005, he was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for 25 years, last serving as Director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs Office in the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
His foreign posts include Deputy Political Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil; Political-Military Affairs Officer in Moscow, USSR; and Political-Military Affairs Officer in Bonn, Germany.
Thielmann also served as the Deputy Office Director in the State Department’s Office of German, Austrian and Swiss Affairs; Special Assistant to Ambassador Paul Nitze (then Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters); and State Department advisor to the U.S. Delegation at the Geneva INF arms control negotiations.
Greg is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Arms Control Association (2003-2005).
His July 2003 appearance at an ACA press briefing on faulty intelligence assessments on Iraq’s WMD capabilities http://www.armscontrol.org/events/iraq_july03 led to a CBS News “60 Minutes” segment titled “The Man Who Knew”, which won an Emmy Award for reporter Scott Pelley: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/14/60II/main577975.shtml
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About the CISSM Forum
The CISSM Forum is a "brown bag" lunch for those at the University of Maryland community interested in international issues. It is held every Thursday, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1107, Van Munching Hall.
The line-up for the CISSM Forum series continues to cover a wide range of topics related to international security, economics, and development. The current list of upcoming speakers is at the bottom of this e-mail and you can find the lists of our past and future speakers on our website: http://www.cissm.umd.edu/projects/forum.php . Please check regularly for updated information.
The CISSM Forum is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research.
The CISSM Forum is a "brown bag" lunch for those at the University of Maryland community interested in international issues. It is held every Thursday, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm in room 1107, Van Munching Hall.
The line-up for the CISSM Forum series continues to cover a wide range of topics related to international security, economics, and development. The current list of upcoming speakers is at the bottom of this e-mail and you can find the lists of our past and future speakers on our website: http://www.cissm.umd.edu/projects/forum.php . Please check regularly for updated information.
The CISSM Forum is supported by the Yamamoto-Scheffelin Endowment for Policy Research.
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List of speakers for the spring 2010 semester will be available later. Please check our website for updated information.
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