April 21, noon - 1:30 p.m. — Journalist, scholar and Middle East analyst David Ottaway, Ph.D. will discuss recent events in Saudi Arabia. Ottaway first visited Saudi Arabia in 1973 when he was based in Addis Ababa for the Washington Post and he has returned there regularly as he assumed the positions of the Post's National Security Correspondent and Investigative/Special Projects Reporter. He was a Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Scholar from December 2006 to December 2011, and is the author of King's Messenger: Prince Bandar Bin Sultan and America's Tangled Relationship with Saudi Arabia as well as articles on the US-Saudi relationship published in Foreign Affairs and the Wilson Quarterly. Ottaway holds a BA from Harvard University and a Ph.D in political science from Columbia University.