About this Event
San Francisco, CA
Credo
The Archive Room
360 Pine Street
San Francisco‚ CA 94104
The GW community in the Bay Area is invited to join us for a reception and discussion with Elliott School Dean Alyssa Ayres on “U.S. Foreign Policy in a Time of Turmoil.” Dean Ayres will provide updates on GW and the Elliott School of International Affairs‚ and examine the extraordinary foreign policy challenges facing the United States.
Registration is $15 for alumni‚ parents‚ and guests‚ and includes heavy hors d’ouevres‚ beer‚ wine‚ and soft drinks. Students are free.
Alyssa Ayres joined the Elliott School as dean on February 1‚ 2021. She is a foreign policy practitioner and award-winning author with senior experience in the government‚ nonprofit‚ and private sectors. From 2013 to 2021‚ she was senior fellow for India‚ Pakistan‚ and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations‚ where she remains an adjunct senior fellow. From 2010 to 2013‚ Ayres served as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia. Her work focuses primarily on India’s role in the world and on U.S. relations with South Asia in the larger Indo-Pacific. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Trilateral Commission‚ the Halifax International Security Forum’s agenda working group‚ and the Women’s Foreign Policy Group board of directors. In 2021 and 2022‚ the Washingtonian included her as one of their “most influential people shaping policy.”
