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Joël Gallegos, assistant provost for international programs for UNC Charlotte’s Office of International Programs (OIP), has been appointed honorary consul of France for the Charlotte region. Endorsed for this role by the French minister of foreign affairs and confirmed by the U.S. Department of State, Gallegos will seek to enhance relations between the United States […]

Reflecting — and advancing — its reputation as the UNC System’s most diverse institution, UNC Charlotte ranks second among the System’s campuses, third in all of North Carolina and 83rd of 3,982 degree-granting, post-secondary institutions in the U.S. for international students, according to the Institute of International Education’s 2021 Open Doors Report. With 2,547 students […]

Event Date:February 26, 2020 – 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Location:CHHS 281 Lieutenant General Michael K. Nagata, a native of Virginia, graduated from Georgia State University and was commissioned as an Infantry Officer in 1982. He initially served as a Platoon Leader in the 2nd Infantry Division before volunteering for the Army Special Forces in […]

Event Date:November 4, 2019 – 3:00 PM to November 5, 2019 – 3:59 PM Location:SAC A Salon Volker Wissing is a German lawyer and politician. Since 2011 he is national chairman of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate, since 2013 member of the presidency of the Federal Party and since May 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Economy, Transport, Agriculture […]

Event Date:October 24, 2019 – 3:00 PM to October 25, 2019 – 3:59 PM Location:Popp-Martin Student Union Movie Theater Consul General Pier Forlano is a highly motivated and dedicated diplomat, with 30 years of professional experience, including appointments in four Embassies (Bulgaria, Malta, South Africa and Australia). In 1987 he was appointed Deputy Chief of […]

Event Date:September 12, 2019 – 3:30 PM to September 13, 2019 – 4:59 PM Location:Cone Center 210 Ambassador John C. Kornblum has enjoyed a distinguished career in the United States Foreign Service which began in 1964, shortly after his graduation from Michigan State University. As a junior officer he served in Hamburg and Washington. He […]

Event Date:February 20, 2019 – 3:30 PM to February 21, 2019 – 4:59 PM Location:SAC, Salon D Appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) in September 2018, Mr. James A Walsh is responsible for supporting State Department programs and policies to combat illicit drugs […]

Event Date:January 15, 2019 – 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM Location:SAC, Salon A Daniel Mulhall became the 18th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States in August 2017. Ambassador Mulhall’s initial appointments were in India, Austria, the European Union and Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2005, while Ireland’s Ambassador to Malaysia, he was conferred with an Honorary […]

Event Date:October 3, 2018 – 3:00 PM to October 4, 2018 – 4:59 PM Location:University Cone Center, Room 208 Ms. Kirsti Kauppi became Ambassador of Finland to the United States in September 2015. Prior to her appointment as the Finnish Ambassador to the US, she began her career in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of […]

Event Date:September 5, 2018 – 3:30 PM to September 6, 2018 – 4:59 PM Location:Atkins Library, Halton Reading Room Ryan Crocker is a Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, for the academic year 2017-2018. He served as U.S ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon. Ambassador Crocker has received […]

Event Date:March 15, 2018 – 3:30 PM to March 16, 2018 – 4:59 PM Location:Atkins Library, Halton Reading Room Nancy Lindborg has served as President of the United States Institute of Peace, an independent institution founded by Congress to provide practical solutions for preventing and resolving violent conflict around the world since February of 2015. […]

Event Date:March 1, 2018 – 3:30 PM to March 2, 2018 – 4:59 PM Location:Popp Martin Student Union, Movie Theater Former CIA Director John O. Brennan is currently a Distinguished Fellow for Global Security at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, a Distinguished Non-Resident Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, […]