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Join us for our next TransAtlantic Dialogue with the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office Association, the Canadian Ambassadors Alumni Network, and the Canadian Foreign Service Alumni Forum, our counterparts in the United Kingdom and Canada.
The program will be moderated by Stephanie Smith Kinney, U.S. Foreign Service, retired. The panel will be comprised of Ambassador Kerry Buck, Canada's Ambassador to NATO 2015-2018; Dame Mariot Leslie, the UK's permanent representative to NATO 2010-2014; and Ambassador Robert Hunter, the US's Ambassador to NATO 1993-1998.
Stephanie Smith Kinney is a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service. Her diplomatic career included tours of duty in Europe and Latin America as well as multilateral diplomacy under the auspices of the United Nations. Ms. Kinney was one of the three chief U.S. negotiators for the original Framework Convention on Climate Change. A recipient of the Department of State’s Lifetime Achievement Award, she has recently worked as a change management consultant in the private sector, State Department, the American Foreign Service Association, and the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
Kerry Buck was Canada’s Ambassador to NATO from 2015-2018. A career diplomat, she was Political Director and Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Affairs, Canadian Representative at the UN, G7, NATO, OAS, and OSCE on issues of human rights, security, disarmament, terrorism, and humanitarian affairs, and Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Board, Economic Sector. She is currently a senior fellow a the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, the Bill Graham Centre at Trinity College, and Senior Mentor at the Canadian Armed Forces College.
Dame Mariot Leslie was the UK’s permanent representative to NATO from 2010-2014. A career British diplomat, her prior appointments included head of the Foreign Office’s policy planning staff; minister and deputy head of mission in the British embassy in Rome; ambassador in Oslo; director defence and strategic threats and counter-terrorism envoy; and immediately before her NATO appointment, director-general for defence and intelligence in the Foreign Office.
Robert Hunter was U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1993-1998. Previously, he was Vice President for International Politics at CSIS, a member of the NSC Staff, foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy, senior fellow at the Overseas Development Council, research assistant at the IISS, and advisor to VP Humphrey. He also was director of the Center for Transatlantic Security at the National Defense University, a member of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board, and a member of the Senior Advisory Group to the U.S. European Command.
