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Derek Shearer
Former Ambassador to Finland
Woodrow Wilson Fellow
October 30 - November 2, 2000
Public
Address: "The Third Way: Evaluating the Clinton Administration"
Location: Furman University, Burgiss Theatre
Tuesday, October 31, 2000 at 7:30 pm
Ruth
Goldway
Member, United States Postal Rate Commission
Woodrow Wilson Fellow
October 30 - November 2, 2000
Discussion:
"Women in Politics"
Location: Furman University, Johns Hall
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
Derek Shearer
is a California native who graduated from Yale University, where
he concentrated on Russian and Chinese politics and history. He
worked as a journalist and editor for several years before earning
his Ph.D. in public policy at the Union Graduate School. He taught
economics, international relations and public policy at the School
of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA and at Occidental College
in Los Angeles and with his wife, Ruth Goldway, we active in Democratic
Party politics and policy-making in California for two decades.
He served as a policy advisor to the presidential campaigns of Gary
Hart and Michael Dukakis, and then as senior advisor to the first
Clinton campaign, where he coauthored the "Putting People First"
program. He was appointed Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce in 1993
and in 1994 because U.S. Ambassador to Finland, serving for three
years. As ambassador he devised the administration's regional policy
for the Nordic-Baltic area and managed the Clinton-Yeltsin summit
in 1997. After returning to the United States, he became a senior
fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute. He is currently on leave
as professor of international affairs and public policy at Occidental
College, a public scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center
in Washington and a foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al
Gore.
Ruth Goldway,
a native of New York, earned her bachelor's degree from the University
of Micheigan and her MA in English literature from Wayne State University.
With expertise in public relations and consumer affairs, she has
served as executive director of the California Public Policy Center
and the Center for New Priorities, and as director of public affairs
at the E.H.P. Corporation, California State University at Los Angeles
and the J. Paul Getty Trust. She was elected mayor of Santa Monica,
California, in 1979, where she initiated civic reforms including
urban redevelopment, neighborhood planning councils and a consumer
affairs bureau. As a diplomatic spouse in Finland, she emphasized
her interests in Finnish art, design and architecture, and authored
a memoir of her experiences. She was appointed to the U.S. Postal
Rate Commission by President Clinton in 1998.
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