Ambassador Derek Mitchell
| When |
Jan 26, 2012
from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM |
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| Where | PNC Club |
| Contact Name | Center for Asian Democracy |
| Contact Phone | 502-852-2667 |
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Derek J. Mitchell, the Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma, is the featured annual speaker at the University of Louisville's Center for Asian Democracy.
Ambassador Mitchell will speak with McConnell Scholars in a closed, off-the-record session before a public address to the Louisville community beginning at 7 p.m.
Prior to his appointment to Burma, Mitchell served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, from April 2009 until August 2011. In that capacity, he was responsible for overseeing the Defense Department’s security policy in Northeast, Southeast, South, and Central Asia. He has also served as senior fellow and director of the Asia Division of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), as a special assistant for Asian and Pacific affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1997 to 2001. Mitchell was the principal author of the Department of Defense (DoD) 1998 East Asia Strategy Report and received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Public Service in January 2001.
Mitchell received a master of arts in law and diplomacy degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1991 and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1986. He studied Chinese language at Nanjing University in China and speaks Mandarin Chinese proficiently. He has authored numerous books, articles and opinion pieces on Asian security affairs, and is coauthor of China: The Balance Sheet—What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (Public Affairs, 2006), and China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities (Peterson Institute for International Economics Press, 2008).