NCSJ Events - 12.11.2007

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NCSJ Annual Board  of Governors Meeting Featured Speakers: Paul D. Wohlers U.S. State Department Director of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts,  Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow in  Russia, Ukraine, Central  Asia and the Caucasus Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. At    NCSJ 2020 K Street NW, Suite 7800 Washington, D.C. 20006 TO RSVP , PLEASE CLICK HERE

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Paul D. Wohlers - 12.11.2007

Biography for Paul D. Wohlers

Mr. Wohlers has been Director of the Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR/CARC) since August 2007. Previously, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia from July 2004 to July 2007. He served as Chargé d’Affaires in Skopje from March to September 2005. Mr. Wohlers also served as Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff in the Department of State (2001-2003), and was a Senior Watch Officer in the State Department Operations Center (2000-2001).

Earlier in his career, Mr. Wohlers held diplomatic postings at U.S. embassies in Bucharest (1985-1987), Moscow (1991-1993), and Nicosia (1997-2000). In Washington, Mr. Wohlers worked on arms control issues in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (1987-1990), and was Desk Officer for Bangladesh in the Bureau of South Asian Affairs (1993-1994). He also served on the Executive Secretariat Staff (1994-1996).

Mr. Wohlers graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1974 with a B.S. in International Affairs and served as a Naval Flight Officer, flying in the E-2C Hawkeye with VAW-121, attached to the USS Eisenhower. He earned a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1982.


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Bill Korey - 12.11.2007

Biography for Dr. William Korey

Dr. Korey is a human rights scholar and activist who has played a key role in some of the major human rights struggles of the past half-century. He holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he was admitted to the first class of the Russian (now Harriman) Institute in 1946.

He taught at City College of New York and Columbia and later was a Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University, Brooklyn College, and YIVO, and he has lectured at a wide variety of universities.

In the mid-1950’s Dr. Korey moved into human rights work. He served as a Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s regional offices in Illinois-Missouri and then in Washington, D.C. In 1960 he was chosen to become the first director of B’nai B’rith International’s United Nations Office. Subsequently, he directed the B’nai B’rith International Council and its department of International Policy Research. Dr. Korey counts as one of his major achievements helping organize the American Jewish Conference and its successor, NCSJ, for which he acted as a principal consultant.

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