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Ambassador
Carey Cavanaugh |
Ambassador
Carey Cavanaugh
Director
of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
at the University of Kentucky
March 23, 2009
The Riley Institute
at Furman welcomed Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh, Director of the Patterson
School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and professor of
diplomacy and conflict resolution at the University of Kentucky,
to campus. Ambassador Cavanaugh delivered an address, "Transforming
Institutions to Meet 21st Century Diplomatic Challenges" on
Monday, March 23rd at 7:30 p.m. in Shaw Hall, Melvin and Dollie
Younts Conference Center, Furman University. This event was presented
by the Riley Institute's Advance Team.
Ambassador
Cavanaugh returned
to academia after a twenty-two year diplomatic career with the U.S.
Department of State that focused on conflict resolution, political-military
affairs and humanitarian issues.
In addition
to Washington assignments in the State Department, Pentagon, and
on Capitol Hill, Ambassador Cavanaugh served in Berlin, Moscow,
Tbilisi, Rome, and Bern. In 1992, he established the first American
Embassy to the new Republic of Georgia, serving as Charge d’Affaires.
Under Presidents Clinton and Bush, Cavanaugh spearheaded or helped
advance peace efforts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia,
Greece, Moldova, Tajikistan and Turkey. In 2000, he was confirmed
by the U.S. Senate as Ambassador/Special Negotiator responsible
for conflicts in Eurasia and Co-Chairman of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group. Later Cavanaugh
was elected president of the State Department’s Senior Seminar
and crisscrossed the globe as a team leader for the Office of the
Inspector General. His final government assignment was foreign policy/political
advisor to U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Mullen (the
current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff).
Cavanaugh was
born in Jacksonville, Florida and raised in Atlantic Beach. He majored
in Russian at the University of Florida, but shifted to international
affairs and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of
Notre Dame, with additional graduate work at the US Army Russian
Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He and his wife Laura have
two sons: Chase, a sophomore at Notre Dame, and Keith, an eighth
grader at Lexington’s Sayre School. They live in Lexington,
Kentucky.
Ambassador
Carey Cavanaugh
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The Riley Institue Advance Team with Ambassador Cavanaugh |
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