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New World Order: The Middle East | Dec 17

December 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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New World Order: The Middle East

Biden Takes Over

Amy Tachco

Office of Regional and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State

December 17, 2020 @ 5p.m. CT

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take office on January 20 and their administration is likely to be far different from the one led by President Donald Trump.  TNWAC is pleased to join WACH in a discussions with experts in domestic and foreign affairs to discuss how the world is likely to change in 2021.

Join us 5 p.m. (Central Time) Thursday, Dec. 17 for our conversation  with  Amy Tachco, director of the Office of Regional And Multilateral Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. We will open with remarks from Irina Karmanova, from the State Department Office of Public Liaison.

ABOUT AMY TACHCO

Amy Tachco joined the Foreign Service in 2002 after a brief stint in finance in New York.  She has served in Karachi, Casablanca, Madrid (twice), Beirut, and in Washington in the Bureaus of Near Eastern and African Affairs.  She served as Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Damascus in the run-up to closure of the Mission in 2012, and was Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under Ambassadors Samantha Power and Nikki Haley. She also served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet Commander in Manama, Bahrain.  A graduate of Smith College and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, she speaks French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic.


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Date:
December 17, 2020
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm