The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies presents

Ambassador Derek N. Shearer
Beyond Bush - Rethinking America's Role in the World

Thursday, October 19, 12:30-1:30
McCune Conference Room,
6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

Derek Shearer served in the Clinton administration as an economics official in the Commerce Department, and then as Ambassador to Finland (1994-97). Among his many accomplishments were the creation of the administration’s coordinated strategy to 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. He also served as a foreign policy advisor to Vice President Gore during the 2000 Presidential campaign.

Ambassador Shearer’s articles on foreign affairs and public policy have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and many weekly and monthly publications.  He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an US-Japan Leadership Fellowship, and a Swedish Bicentennial Fellowship, among other honors. He is a senior fellow at the Center for Public Diplomacy located at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School.

Ambassador Derek Shearer is currently Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He also serves as Director of Global Affairs, handling the college’s international relations and directing the expansion of its international affairs programs.