Southeast Connecticut World Affairs Council Annual Meeting and Speaker Event
Reception begins at 5:30pm, Annual Meeting will take place from 5:45pm-6pm. Speaker E. Wayne Merry will present at 6:00pm. A dinner at Filomena's with Speaker E. Wayne Merry will follow the event.
E. Wayne Merry is Senior Fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. He is widely published and a frequent speaker on topics relating to Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Balkans, European security and trans-Atlantic relations. In twenty-six years in the United States Foreign Service, he worked as a diplomat and political analyst specializing in Soviet and post-Soviet political issues, including six years at the American Embassy in Moscow, where he was in charge of political analysis on the breakup of the Soviet Union and the early years of post-Soviet Russia. He also served at the embassies in Tunis, East Berlin, and Athens and at the US Mission to the United Nations in New York. In Washington he served in the Treasury, State, and Defense Departments. In the Pentagon he was Regional Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia during the mid-Nineties. He also served at the Headquarters of the US Marine Corps and on Capitol Hill with the staff of the US Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He was later a program director at the Atlantic Council of the United States. He studied economics and political science at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), has an MPA from Princeton University’s Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and studied at the U.S. Army Russian Institute (Garmisch-Partenkirchen). A native Oklahoman, he lives in Virginia.
Date and Time
Thursday Sep 25, 2014
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
5:30pm - Reception
5:45pm - Annual Meeting
6:00pm - Speaker Presentation
7:00/7:30pm - Dinner at Filomena's
Location
Annual Meeting and Speaker Event
Charter Oak Federal Credit Union Community Room
1055 Hartford Turnpike
Waterford, CT 06385
Dinner with Speaker E. Wayne Merry
Filomena's Restaurant
262 Boston Post Road
Waterford, CT 06385
Fees/Admission
The event is free to all members, guests may attend their first meeting free to decide if they would like to join.
The cost of the dinner is $35 per person, payable at the event. Reservations are requested due to limited seating.
Contact Information
Sandra Rueb
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