Ambassador Holbrooke’s lecture Nov. 13 cancelled
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke cancelled his visit to The Ohio State University due to a personal obligation. This event will not be rescheduled. If you have any questions, please contact Melanie Mann at mann.281@osu.edu. 

Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Lecture

Richard Holbrooke

"A Foreign Policy Agenda for the Next President"

Thursday, November 13, 2008
4 p.m.
1008 Evans Laboratory
88 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210

To sign up for this event, please visit holbrooke@eventbrite.com by Tuesday, November 11, 2008.

Richard Holbrooke served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, where he was also a member of President Clinton’s cabinet from 1999 to 2001. In that capacity and others, he played a central role in the development of U.S. policy toward the United Nations, the Balkans, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and humanitarian crisis issues such as AIDS.  

As Assistant Secretary of State for Europe from 1994 to 1996, Holbrooke was chief architect of the momentous 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. From 1993 to 1994 he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany.   He later served as President Clinton's Special Envoy to Bosnia and Kosovo and as Special Envoy to Cyprus on a pro-bono basis while a private citizen. 

From 1977 to 1981 he was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and was in charge of U.S. relations with China when Sino-American relations were normalized in 1978.  After joining the Foreign Service in 1962, he held assignments in Vietnam, the State Department and the Johnson White House.  He was also Peace Corps Director in Morocco (1970-72), Managing Editor of Foreign Policy (1972-76), and held senior positions at two Wall Street firms.

Holbrooke has written numerous articles and two books:  To  End  a War (Modern Library, 1999), a memoir of the Dayton negotiations, and, as co-author, Counsel to the President, Clark Clifford's memoir, as well as a volume of the Pentagon Papers. 

He holds more than 20 honorary degrees and numerous awards, including several Nobel Peace Prize nominations.  A Board Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, he serves on the boards of AIG, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Refugees International.  

Holbrooke serves as Chairman of the Asia Society; Founding Chairman of The American Academy in Berlin, a center for U.S.-German cultural exchange; and President and CEO of the Global Business Council, the business alliance against HIV/AIDS.  He is currently Vice Chairman of Perseus, a leading private equity firm, and writes a monthly column for The Washington Post.   

Considered a primary authority on international current events, Holbrooke has been involved with recent issues on the international stage, such as the Russian invasion of Georgia and the arrest of Radovan Karadzic.  

The Joseph J. Kruzel Lecture is given at the Mershon Center each year in honor of Joseph J. Kruzel, an Ohio State faculty member in Political Science who served in the U.S. Air Force as well as other posts in the federal government. Kruzel was killed in Sarajevo, Bosnia, while serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs.

Richard Holbrooke
Former Ambassador to the United Nations
Broker, Dayton Peace Accords