6:30 – 7:00pm – Registration & Networking
7:00 – 8:00pm – Program

ABOUT THE EVENT:

As the former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar, Director of Voice of America VOA, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and other international positions, Ambassador Chase Untermeyer developed a deep and unique understanding of many key regions of the world.

Ambassador Untermeyer will show how geography and history help explain the foreign policy of modern Russia, China, Iran, the Arab world and the United States. These two factors, he believes, influence the nations’ behavior on the world stage more than ideology, religion and economics.

Nations, like individuals, have psyches and personalities that drive them to act in particular (and sometimes peculiar) ways. Ambassador Untermeyer will examine this key cluster of nations in an attempt to answer the question, “Why do they act that way?”.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Ambassador Chase Untermeyer, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Qatar & Director of Voice of America VOA

Chase Untermeyer was United States Ambassador to Qatar from 2004 to 2007, on appointment of President George W. Bush.

A 1968 graduate of Harvard College with honors in government, he served during the Vietnam War as an officer in the United States Navy aboard a destroyer in the Western Pacific and as aide to the commander of US naval forces in the Philippines. Upon his return to Texas, Ambassador Untermeyer was a political reporter for the Houston Chronicle and a member of the Texas House of Representatives, elected for a district in Houston.

He left the Legislature in 1981 to go to Washington as executive assistant to then-Vice President Bush. Three years later, President Reagan appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower & Reserve Affairs. When George Bush became president in 1989, Mr Untermeyer returned to the White House as Director of Presidential Personnel and in 1991 was appointed Director of the Voice of America.

Ambassador Untermeyer is currently professor of practice at the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston. He is the author of three volumes of diary-based memoirs of the Reagan and first Bush administrations.

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