PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 28th DUE TO LAST MINUTE SCHEDULING CHANGES.
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Young Professionals in Foreign Policy is pleased to present you the second in a non-partisan series of events that aim to offer our members rare insight into the presidential campaign process as it unfolds. These events are not opportunities to showcase particular candidates, but to talk to the influential foreign policy advisors of Republican and Democratic campaigns about their experiences and opinions, the challenges of life on the campaign trail, the complex interactions between domestic politics and foreign policy, and the momentous choices that will face the next President.
The second installment in the series is Derek Chollet, the Foreign Policy Coordinator for Senator John Edwards' presidential campaign and a veteran of presidential campaigns, Congress, and the U.S. State Department. To attend, please register by e-mailing events@ypfp.org with your name and affiliation
Derek Chollet
Derek Chollet is a Senior Fellow at The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where he works on a variety of issues related to U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. He is also a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development Program and an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University . Previously, he was foreign policy adviser to Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), both on his legislative staff and during the 2004 Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign. During the Clinton administration, he served in the U.S. State Department in several capacities, including chief speechwriter for Richard Holbrooke, then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and special adviser to Strobe Talbott, then-deputy secretary of state. He has also assisted former secretaries of state James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher with the research and writing of their memoirs, Holbrooke with his book on the Dayton peace process in Bosnia , and Talbott with his book on U.S.-Russian relations during the 1990s. He has been a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at The George Washington University. Educated at Cornell and Columbia Universities , he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the Woodrow Wilson House and the Truman National Security Project. He is the author of The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study of American Statecraft (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and his commentaries and reviews on U.S. foreign policy and politics have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Washington Monthly, and many other books and publications throughout the United States and Europe.