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CES 30th & TAM 25th Anniversary Reception

September 14, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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TAM 25th Anniversary Logo
Please join CES as we celebrate the Center’s 30th and TAM’s 25th anniversaries! Keynote presentation from Deputy Ambassador of the EU to the US Michael Curtis will begin promptly at 5:30 pm.

RSVPs are required and will be checked. IDs are required for any guests wishing to consume alcohol.

 

 

This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs.

Keynote Presenter

Deputy Ambassador Michael Curtis Headshot
Michael Curtis has been the EU Deputy Ambassador to the US since September 1st 2019. Immediately before joining the Delegation, he served in the team of the EU’s Foreign Policy Chief, Federica Mogherini, advising her on a number of important foreign policy issues for the past 5 years including on Transatlantic relations.

He has had a long career in the European Union institutions working mainly on foreign policy and external relations, trade, development and humanitarian issues. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as the EU Humanitarian Affairs Counsellor to the United Nations in New York. From 2000 to 2004, he worked on the team of the EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Poul Nielson, first as Press Spokesperson then as a member of his Staff.

Mr. Curtis has also had two stints working for the European Commission’s Secretariat General focusing on relations with the EU Member States in the area of foreign policy and trade, then relations with the European External Action Service where he was closely involved with its setting up in 2010.

Mr. Curtis has a Bachelor’s degree in French and Politics from Leicester University in the U.K and a post-graduate Master’s degree in European Politics from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

Details

Date:
September 14, 2023
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Venue

Florence and James Peacock Atrium, FedEx Global Education Center
301 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516 United States
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Phone
(919) 962-2435
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