Join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School at Tufts University for a conversation with Ambassador Thomas Pickering about the current state of U.S.-Russian relations. The event will be followed by a reception in the Hall of Flags. Refreshments will be provided.

Thomas Pickering has served as vice chairman of Hills and Company since 2016. He served as the U.S. Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations in New York under President George H.W. Bush. Pickering led the U.S. effort to build a global coalition in the UN Security Council during and after the first Gulf War. He also was the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President Bill Clinton. In a diplomatic career spanning five decades, he was U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Pickering was Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans, Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Executive Secretary of the Department of State, and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger.

Registration is required and can be found at this link.

Speaker:

Thomas Pickering, vice chairman, Hills and Company; former U.S. Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations