Foreign Policy Panel to Discuss National Security Challenges

The public is invited to attend a foreign policy panel being held June 13 during reunion weekend.

June 08, 2009 -- A former ambassador, a human rights advocate, a professor/author, and a prize-winning newspaper editor will share their thoughts about national security issues during a panel discussion to be held on Saturday, June 13 at 2 p.m. during Phillips Academy’s annual alumni reunion weekend.  The panel discussion is free and open to the public.

The four panelists are among the more than 1,100 alumni who are expected on the academy campus for three days of classes, programs, events, discussions, and reunions with former classmates and teachers.

The panel, titled “Current Foreign Policy and National Security Challenges Facing the U.S.,” will be held in Cochran Chapel, located on Chapel Avenue on Phillips Academy campus in Andover, Massachusetts.

The panelists are:

L. Paul Bremer III

Career diplomat, former ambassador to the Netherlands, ambassador at large for counter-terrorism, and presidential envoy to Iraq

Carroll R. Bogert

Associate director of Human Rights Watch; former international correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and editor for Newsweek magazine

W. Scott Thompson

Professor emeritus at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; author of 13 books on world political issues

Robert B. Semple Jr. (panel moderator)

Pulitzer-prize winning associate editor of the New York Times editorial page; former foreign editor and London bureau chief for the Time