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Jeff Flake: Why the World Needs Leaders

Jeff Flake
November 5, 2025
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Ohio Union Performance Hall

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The ASC Leadership Major presents Former Senator and Ambassador Jeff Flake on "Why the World Needs Leaders."

 Jeff Flake was a Senator and a Representative from Arizona. He was born in Snowflake, Navajo County, Ariz., December 31, 1962. He graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah in 1986 and received an M.A. from Brigham Young University in 1987. Elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2001-January 3, 2013), he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 2012, and served from January 3, 2013, to January 3, 2019. From 2022-2024, he was U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. 

This event is free and open to the public but registration is requested.

Cosponsored by the Mershon Center, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Department of Political Science, and Department of History.