2022 World Affairs Council of the Year
Network of Independent World Affairs Councils of America
AND
PRESENT
DISTINGUISHED VISITING SPEAKER PROGRAM GLOBAL TOWN HALL
In Person
War in Europe
Ambassador William B. Taylor
Vice President, Russia and Europe, U.S. Institute of Peace
Former United States Ambassador to Ukraine
with Moderator
Dr. Thomas Schwartz
Distinguished Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
at
Belmont University
Barbara Massey Rogers Center Board Room, 1900 Belmont Blvd., Nashville
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
6:00 Registration and Networking
6:30-7:45 Program
About Ambassador William B. Taylor
Ambassador William B. Taylor is vice president, Europe and Russia at the U.S. Institute of Peace. In 2019, he served as chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv and as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. During the Arab Spring, he oversaw U.S. assistance and support to Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria. He served in Jerusalem as the U.S. government’s representative to the Mideast Quartet. He served in Kabul in 2002 and in Baghdad in 2004.
In the 1990s, Ambassador Taylor coordinated U.S. assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He earlier served on the staff of Senator Bill Bradley.
Ambassador Taylor is a graduate of West Point and Harvard’s Kennedy School and served as an infantry platoon leader and combat company commander in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and Germany.
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