Speaker:

Ambassador Derek Shearer, Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles

The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies 
presents
Sports As Soft Power: The Role of Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century

Ambassador Derek Shearer
Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy
Director, McKinnon Center on Global Affairs
Occidental College
 

WHEN: 2:30PM on Thursday, October 31, 2013
 
WHERE: Orfalea Center Seminar Room ~~ 1005 Robertson Gym
 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Ambassador Derek Shearer is currently Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and Director of the McKinnon Center on Global Affairs at that institution. In addition he is a fellow at the Center for Public Diplomacy located at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School. Ambassador Shearer served in the Clinton administration as an economics official in the Commerce Department, and then as Ambassador to the Republic of Finland (1994-97), helping coordinate strategies for the Nordic-Baltic region and the hosting of the Clinton-Yeltsin summit in Helsinki.
 
After diplomatic service, Ambassador Shearer was a fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute and then at the Woodrow Wilson Scholars Center in Washington, DC, and served as a foreign policy advisor to Vice President Gore during the 2000 Presidential campaign. He has published widely in major newspapers and periodicals.