Ambassador to the Philippines to speak Oct. 3

Posted 10/01/02

Francis J. Ricciardone, former Director of the U.S. State Department's Task Force on the Coalition Against Terrorism, will speak on "Influencing the Morning After in Iraq" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, in 206 Dartmouth Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in 216 Dartmouth.

Ricciardone, who is currently the Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau, was also the Secretary of State's Special Coordinator for the Transition of Iraq from March 1999 to early 2001 and a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service.

A summa cum laude graduate of the Dartmouth class of 1973, Ricciardone entered the Foreign Service in 1978 after studying in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar and teaching in Iran. His Foreign Service assignments include two tours of duty in Turkey, most recently as Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d'Affaires; and service in Cairo, Amman, and London. He served in two multinational military deployments: as chief of the Civilian Observer Unit of the Multinational Force and Observers in Egypt's Sinai Desert, and as political advisor to the U.S. and Turkish commanding generals of Operation Provide Comfort, based in Turkey and operating in Iraq. In Washington, Ricciardone has served in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Near East Bureau, and in senior management positions under the Director General of the Foreign Service and of Human Resources. He has won high awards for policy and program management and for political reporting.