E. Wayne Merry, Senior Associate, American Foreign Policy Council.

Wednesday, October 25

5-7 PM

1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, The Rome Auditorium

Although a retired US Government expert on the former Soviet Union, Mr. Merry will be speaking entirely on his own behalf as an observer of the diplomatic efforts to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.  His presentation will not in any way reflect the views of the US Government.

Towards the end of his 26-year career in the US Foreign Service, Mr. Merry focused extensively on Russia and the new republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia.  He served in Moscow for the second time in 1991-94 and, beginning in 1995, as Regional Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia in the Department of Defense.  Before retiring in 1998, he was Senior Adviser to the US Commission on Security and Cooperation Europe, a bipartisan Congressional-Executive human rights monitoring group.

Following his retirement, Mr. Merry became Director of the Program on European Societies in Transition at the Atlantic Council of the United States and also served as a Senior Fellow of the Lester Pearson Peacekeeping Center in Nova Scotia.  In addition to his current appointment as Senior Advisor at
the American Foreign Policy Council, he is also a Russia country specialist for Amnesty International/USA and is on the boards of the Kolodzei Art Foundation and the Center for Realistic Foreign Policy Studies.  He writes and lectures widely on Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Balkans, European Security and Transatlantic Relations.

A native Oklahoman, Mr. Merry attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.A. 1970), Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (M.P.A. 1972), and the U.S. Army Russian Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1990-91)        

Refreshments will be served at 5pm and the actual presentation will start at 5.30pm.

Please RSVP with your name and affiliation to caci2@mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu or call (202) 663-7721.