Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Kiron Skinner and CMC Professor Bou Nassif. The event will begin with a guided discussion between Professor Bou Nassif, a Middle East Politics Professor in CMC's Government Department and Dr. Skinner and will end with a Q and A portion. Please dress professionally. Skinner currently serves as the Taube Family Chair of International Relations and Politics at the University of Pepperdine. Prior to Pepperdine, Skinner served as the Taube Professor for International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Politics and Strategy. At Carnegie Mellon she started several centers and institutes, including the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program. Skinner continues to serve as the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where she was the research assistant for former secretary of state George P. Shultz as he wrote his memoir about US foreign policy during the Reagan era. She has also co-authored books with Secretary Rice.Skinner's past government service includes membership on the US Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board as an advisor on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, the Defense Department’s Defense Business Board, the Chief of Naval Operations' Executive Panel, the National Academies Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security, and the National Security Education Board. From 2012 to 2015 she served on Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs. During her two years at Pepperdine, she has served on the National Academies Committee on International Talent Programs in the Changing Global Environment. The committee’s report will be published later this year. Skinner is an award-winning and best-selling author with particular scholarship focused on the life and public policy of former president Ronald Reagan. Her coauthored books Reagan, In His Own Hand (2001) and Reagan, A Life in Letters (2003) were New York Times best sellers. The former won the Hoover Institution's Uncommon Book Award in 2002.Skinner serves on the editorial boards of Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary and Texas National Security Review.Skinner is a lifetime director on the board of the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, and serves on the board of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.
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