When

Tue, Mar. 08, 2022
6 pm - 8 pm
(GMT-06:00) America/Chicago

Where

James A. Baker III Hall

Fellow and future Roundtable Young Professionals held a membership recruitment, networking and open house event in Baker Hall’s Doré Commons. Baker Institute Director Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, who is soon to retire, offered brief remarks, and attendees had the opportunity to get a new professional headshot as a party favor. 

The RYP is a membership group for young professionals between the ages of 21 and 45 who are passionate about the major political and public policy issues of our time and want the opportunity to network with industry leaders and peers. For more information about RYP membership, please contact Morgan Garvey at 713-348-8087 or morgan.garvey@rice.edu.

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Featured Speaker

The Honorable Edward P. Djerejian’s foreign service career spanned eight U.S. administrations, from John F. Kennedy to William J. Clinton. Prior to his nomination as U.S. ambassador to Israel, he was assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs in both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was previously the U.S. ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic. He also served as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as deputy press secretary for foreign affairs in the White House. Following his retirement from government service, Djerejian became the director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is the author of Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador’s Journey Through the Middle East. He has been awarded the Presidential Distinguished Service Award; the Department of State’s Distinguished Honor Award; the Ellis Island Medal of Honor; the Anti-Defamation League’s Moral Statesman Award; the Award for Humanitarian Diplomacy from Netanya Academic College in Israel; the National Order of the Cedar, bestowed by President Émile Lahoud of Lebanon; the Order of Ouissam Alaouite, bestowed by King Mohammed VI of Morocco; and the Order of Honor, bestowed by President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia. He is also a recipient of the Association of Rice Alumni’s Gold Medal for his service to Rice University. Djerejian is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

 

When

Tue, Mar. 08, 2022
6 pm - 8 pm
(GMT-06:00) America/Chicago

Where

James A. Baker III Hall