National Security and Alternative Energy

Dean's Distinguished Speaker at Gallagher Hall, UC Davis Features Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, the founding director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, one of the United States’ most distinguished diplomats and a leading expert on the complex political, security, economic, religious and ethnic issues of the Middle East. Djerejian's career spanned the administrations of eight U.S. presidents. He played key roles in the Arab–Israeli peace process, the U.S.-led coalition against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, successful efforts to end the civil war in Lebanon, the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and the establishment of collective and bilateral security arrangements in the Persian Gulf.