Former Foreign Service Officer McIlvaine To Speak On Campus Wednesday At 8 P.M.
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| Stevenson McIlvaine has more than 20 years of experience working with the Foreign Service in Africa. | GREENVILLE, S.C. - Stevenson McIlvaine, a former Foreign Service officer with more than 20 years of experience in Africa, will speak on the Furman University campus Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. in Hartness Pavilion.
His lecture, "United States Foreign Policy at the Brink: Should the United States Intervene?," is free and open to the public. McIlvaine is visiting the Furman campus throughout the week as a Riley Institute Fellow-in-Residence and Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
As a member of the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service, McIlvaine has served as Congressional Liaison for the Africa Bureau, Deputy Director of West Africa Affairs, and Charge and Deputy Chief of Mission in Lusaka, Zambia. He has also held important positions in Somalia and Zaire. He first entered the Foreign Service in 1967 as an advisor for the CORDS program in South Vietnam, working for 18 months in the Mekong Delta and Saigon.
McIlvaine, a Harvard University graduate, retired from the Foreign Service in 2003 and was awarded The Secretary's Career Achievement Award. He has also received Meritorious Honor awards from the Economic Bureau and the Legislative Affairs Bureau, and the Superior Honor Award from the Africa Bureau.
For more information, contact Furman's Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership at 864-294-3280.
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