Join the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy’s Ruth K. & Shepard Broad International Lecture Series & The Center for Global Engagement’s Engage Your World Speaker Series for an Engage Your World event. It will take place on Thursday, November 2 with the reception at 4:30 p.m. and the lecture at 5 p.m. in The Globe Auditorium (GME Building).
Ambassador Harry K. Thomas Jr. is a Senior Kissinger Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.
Over his 34-year career as a Foreign Service officer, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, the Philippines and Bangladesh. He also served as the State Department’s Executive Secretary, as Special Assistant to Secretary Condoleezza Rice, as Director General of the Foreign Service, and as Director for South Asia at the National Security Council and Director of its Operations Center. Ambassador Thomas retired in March 2018 with the rank of Career Minister, and he currently serves as Senior Advisor for Orbis Operations and EEC Solutions.
Ambassador Thomas speaks Spanish, Hindi, Bengali, and conversational Tagalog. He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and holds a master’s from Columbia University and Honorary Doctorates from the College of the Holy Cross, Loyola University of Maryland, and the Angeles University Foundation of the Philippines.
This event also counts toward one of the intercultural event requirements for the Global Citizenship Certificate.
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