Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium: Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

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Marie Yovanovitch is a three-time U.S. Ambassador with a 33-year career with the U.S. Foreign Service. Most recently, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and has previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic from 2005 to 2008 and to the Republic of Armenia from 2008 to 2011. She is the author of the 2022 New York Times bestselling memoir Lessons from the Edge, which shares insights on Ukraine and the current crisis as well as experiences from her time with the U.S. Foreign Service. Yovanovitch earned the Senior Foreign Service Performance Award eight times and the State Department's Superior Honor Award on nine occasions. She is the recipient of two Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and the Secretary's Diplomacy in Human Rights Award.

Her talk will be followed by a book signing beginning at 8 p.m.

This is the third installment of the 2022 Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium, a student-run lecture series at the Johns Hopkins University. The symposium aims to deliver world-class speakers to the university and its surrounding community. All events are free and open to the public.