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NY | A Conversation on Iran
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT
Category: Events
Escalation, Deterrence, and Brinkmanship:
A Conversation on Iran
Ambassador Karen Pierce DCMG, Permanent Representative of
the United Kingdom to the UN
Anne Gueguen, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the UN
Samantha Vinograd, National Security Analyst at CNN
Ambassador Karen Pierce DCMG became the United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in March 2018. Prior to this role, Pierce served as the Director General for Political Affairs and Chief Operating Officer of the Foreign and Commonwealth in London (2016-2018); as the UK’s Ambassador to Afghanistan (2015-2016); in Geneva as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UK Mission to the United Nations, World Trade Organization and Other International Organizations (2012-2015); and as Deputy Permanent Representative and Ambassador at the UK Mission to the UN. Since joining the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1981, Pierce has served in numerous positions in London including Director of South Asia and Afghanistan Department and Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Balkans Coordinator, and Head of EU Department and concurrently Head of Afghanistan Political Military Unit after 9/11. @KarenPierceUN
Anne Gueguen was appointed Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in New York in 2017, where she has served as Political Adviser/Political Affairs Coordinator of the Security Council since 2016. Previously, Gueguen served as Deputy at the French Embassy in Tunis (2013-2016). She also worked for over seven years as an international civil servant in the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat in New York, where she served within the Al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctions surveillance team in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and in the Middle East and West Asia Division, where she was in charge of the Middle East portfolio. Gueguen served as North Africa team leader at the Quai d’Orsay, and held postings in Egypt, the French permanent mission in New York and in Paris on Middle East and North Africa issues. @anngueguen
Samantha Vinograd is a National Security Analyst at CNN and a Senior Advisor at the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. Vinograd began her career under President Bush as the Deputy Attaché for the US Department of the Treasury in Iraq and subsequently served on President Obama’s National Security Council as the Director for Iraq, Director for International Economics, and Senior Advisor to the National Security Advisor. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2013, where her work focused on building public-private sector partnerships across a broad range of policy and business issues, and later led Global Public Policy at Stripe. Vinograd serves as an advisor to the US Fund for UNICEF, was named a David E. Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission and a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and serves on the board of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group. She is the co-founder and Managing Director of Global Opportunity Advisors. @sam_vinograd
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 1 to 2:30 p.m.
1:00 to 1:30 p.m. Registration and Lunch
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Program and Discussion
Institute of International Education
809 UN Plaza, 12th Floor
(1st Ave., between 45th & 46th)
New York, NY 10017
Tickets and Registration
WFPG Members - $20 Guests - $35
Space is limited and advance registration is required.
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