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Careers in foreign service subject of BYU lecture Feb. 26

February 18, 2009

"Inside the Foreign Service: Getting In and Thriving as a Diplomat" will be the topic of discussion for a David M. Kennedy Center lecture on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 2 p.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark Building at Brigham Young University.

Guest speaker Andy Wilson is a career diplomat with 15 years of service in Taiwan, Japan, China and Turkey.

Wilson is now a political officer in Kabul, Afghanistan, working on political/military affairs. Prior to joining the diplomatic corp, he received master's degrees in Asian studies from the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

This lecture will be archived online. For more information on events sponsored by the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, see the calendar online at kennedy.byu.edu.

Writer: Angela Fischer

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