William J. Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, will speak at Duke on Tuesday, April 12.
The talk, “American Leadership in a Changing International Landscape,” takes place at 5 p.m. in the Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
Burns is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, one of the nation’s oldest think tanks for international affairs. During his 33-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Burns served as deputy secretary of state under John Kerry and as special assistant to secretaries of state Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright.
In 2013, Foreign Policy magazine named him “Diplomat of the Year.
Burns’ talk is the 2016 Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. Lecture on International Studies and is hosted by the Duke University Center for International Studies.
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