Ex-Middle East ambassador to speak
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow David Dunford, former U.S. ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, is in residence at Washington & Jefferson College this week and will present “Making Sense of Today’s Middle East” at a lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Howard J. Burnett Center’s Yost Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Dunford’s presentation is part of the College’s Walter K. Levy Lecture Series, dedicated to the memory and spirit of Walter K. Levy, 1952 graduate and former trustee of W&J.
Dunford currently consults for government and the private sector on Middle East Issues and is an adjunct instructor at the University of Arizona.
Previously, he served in the Foreign Service in many roles, including ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman; deputy and acting ambassador in Saudi Arabia from 1988-92 (during the Gulf War); director of Egyptian affairs in the Department of State in Washington, D.C., chief of the American Embassy Economic Section in Cairo, Egypt; and deputy assistant U.S. trade representative in the Executive Office of the President.