US Engagement with Iran

Amb. William Luers

 Listen to an MP3 of the Ambassador's talk
(09292009_william_luers_edit.MP3  | Audio File - 22.8 MB)

Ambassador William Luers is a 31-year veteran of the US Foreign Service and the former President of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA). He served as US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983-1986) and Venezuela (1978- 1982) and held numerous posts in Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, and in the Department of State, where he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (1977-1978) and for Inter-American Affairs (1975-1977). Amb. Luers has been a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.  Amb. Luers is also the former President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

His areas of expertise include: US Foreign Policy and International Affairs, The United Nations, Russia and Eastern Europe, Latin America, US and Iran, and International Cultural Relations. 

In a collaboration between the Project on Justice in Times of Transition, the Institute for Global Leadership, and the Ex-perimental College, Amb. Luers is teaching a course at Tufts this semester on “Talking with the Enemy.” 

For more information: 

www.tuftsgloballeadership.org 

or x73314