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Former Ambassador to Speak at Oglethorpe This
Thursday
Atlanta – Former U.S. Ambassador John H. Kelly will speak
on the Middle East peace process at Oglethorpe University on
Thursday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Lupton Auditorium.
The event is free and open to the public.
Kelly was U.S. Ambassador in Beirut from 1986 to 1988 during the
war years. He was assistant secretary of state for the Near East and
South Asia from 1989 to 1991, during the Gulf War and up to the
Madrid Middle East Peace Conference. He served as American
ambassador in Helsinki, Finland from 1991 to 1994.
A career diplomat, Kelly was four times a deputy assistant
secretary of state and also served in the office of the secretary of
defense as well as overseas assignments in Turkey, Thailand, France,
Lebanon and Finland.
Kelly, of Conyers, now operates his own international consulting
firm assisting U.S. companies with overseas strategies and
marketing. He is active in business in Europe, the Middle East and
Asia. Kelly is also an adjunct faculty member of the Center for
International Strategy, Technology and Policy at the Sam Nunn School
of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Oglethorpe University is an independent, highly selective,
coeducational liberal arts university located at 4484 Peachtree Road
in northeast Atlanta. Founded in 1835, Oglethorpe University is
dedicated to producing graduates who are broadly educated in the
fundamental fields of knowledge and the basic concepts and
principles of their disciplines.
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