The Leadership, Ethics, And Practice Initiative and the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies presents,

Join us for a conversation with Ambassador (ret.) Marie Yovanovitch as she explores her career as an Ambassador, her leadership, and the ethical challenges she faced as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019). Ambassador Yovanovitch, a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump, will recount the challenges she faced in one of the most pivotal geopolitical spaces in the world.

Monday, October 3, 2022

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

Elliott School of International Affairs 1957 E St. NW Washington, DC 20052

Room 505

Ambassador (ret.) Marie L. Yovanovitch is a Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy of Georgetown University. She joined Georgetown after three years as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019). She previously served as Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011) and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008). From 2012-2013, Ambassador Yovanovitch was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she was responsible for policy on European and global security issues. She also served as the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2004-2005. She retired from the Department of State as a Career Minister in January 2020. A graduate of Princeton University with a master’s degree from the National Defense University, Ambassador Yovanovitch received numerous Presidential and State Department awards, including the Secretary’s Diplomacy in Human Rights Award.