Event: National Security Seminar Series – June 14

June 14, noon – 1:30 p.m. – Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen. Stephen Seche, will offer his personal views on "fixing" Yemen following the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Stephen Seche, who served as Ambassador to Yemen from September 2007 to August 2010 knows many of the Yemenis vying for leadership positions in the new regime, his views of “the ideal,” i.e. what should be done to prevent Yemen from becoming a failed state like Somalia, and “the real,” i.e. : pragmatically, what can be done to achieve those ends. From 2004 to 2007, Seche served as Deputy Chief of Mission and then Charge d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Syria; his second tour in Damascus. From 2002 to 2004 he was the Director of the Office for Egypt and Levant Affairs at the Department of State. Seche is currently detailed from the State Department to the Georgetown U. Institute for the Study of Diplomacy,