Dear friends,
Ambassador Freeman is a career diplomat (retired) who was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989-1992 during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Ambassador Freeman worked as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981. He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. In addition to his Middle Eastern, African, East Asian and European diplomatic experience, he had a tour of duty in India.
Following his talk, Mr. Freeman will participate in a Q&A session with us.
The event will be recorded and streamed to YouTube in case anyone wants to watch it later. Please feel free to share this email with anyone who may be interested in attending.
Thank you,
Amar