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Conversation with Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh
February 23, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A virtual career pathways discussion. Join us to discuss careers in international studies and the foreign service for foreign language majors!
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Bio: Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh (Ret.) is professor of diplomacy and conflict resolution at the University of Kentucky and chairman of International Alert, a London-based peacebuilding organization. He had a Foreign Service career centered on peace efforts and humanitarian issues which included diplomatic postings in Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi, Rome and Bern, and domestic assignments in the State Department, the Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill. In 1992, he led the team that established the American Embassy to the new Republic of Georgia. Cavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate in 2000 as Ambassador/Special Negotiator responsible for Eurasian conflicts and US Co-Chair of OSCE’s Minsk Group (tasked with assisting peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict) and led peace talks in Key West, Florida in 2001. He is a native Floridian and received his bachelor’s degree in Russian from the University of Florida in 1976.
Co-sponsored by UF Russian Studies, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Center for European Studies, and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service