LAWRENCEVILLE – Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Kenneth Yalowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to Belarus and Georgia, will visit Rider University the week of March 28 – April 1 during Rider University’s International Week. 

Ambassador Yalowitz will speak Thursday, March 31 on the topic, “Ethics and Principles in Foreign Policy,” at 11:30 a.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater. Sponsored by the Rider University Lecture Series, his talk is free and open to the public. Throughout the week, he will also examine global issues with students and faculty in various classes.

Yalowitz retired from the U.S. Department of State in 2003 after 36 years as a diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service.  He served as U.S. ambassador to Belarus from 1994-1997 and to Georgia from 1998-2001.  His other foreign assignments have included duty in Moscow, The Hague and the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels. Yalowitz has also held domestic assignments such as country director for Australia-New Zealand Affairs, deputy director for economics of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs, and Congressional Foreign Affairs Fellow. Yalowitz has won several awards for conflict prevention and overall diplomatic performance, including the 2000 Ambassador Robert Frasure Award for peacemaking and conflict prevention for his work to prevent the Chechen war expanding into Georgia.

Currently, Yalowitz is director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation connects a liberal education with the world beyond the campus by bringing thoughtful and successful practitioners to colleges for a week of classes and informal discussions with students and faculty. The  Foundation has developed and conducted programs in higher education since 1945.    

For more information, call (609) 896-5103.