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Breakfast Conversation | Former Amb to Ukraine William Taylor | Nov 29

November 29, 2023 @ 7:30 am - 9:00 pm
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AND

PRESENT

A BREAKFAST CONVERSATION 

WITH


Ambassador William B. Taylor

Vice President, Russia and Europe, U.S. Institute of Peace
Former United States Ambassador to Ukraine

First Bank

1221  Broadway (11th Floor), Nashville

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

7:30-9:00 a.m.

 

 

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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Date:
November 29, 2023
Time:
7:30 am - 9:00 pm