January, 2017 Meeting

The next meeting of the Roundtable is at noon Thursday, January 19th, at the Capital City Club downtown. RSVP whether you plan to attend.

We’re honored to have as speaker Ambassador Mary Ann Peters, CEO of the Carter Center. Before taking over the Carter Center responsibilities in 2014, she was provost of the U.S. Naval War College and dean of academics at the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Ambassador Peters spent more than 30 years as a career diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. From 2000 to 2003, she was U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh, leading the mission’s efforts in support of the war on terrorism and other key U.S. foreign policy goals. She received a Presidential Meritorious Service Award in 2003 for her work there.

Ambassador Peters holds a Bachelor of Arts from Santa Clara University and a master’s degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her formal education also included courses at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.