Salt Lake Committee on Foreign Relations
The Next Meeting Will Be Held on

Thursday May 23rd, 2013

6:00 pm Social- 7:00 pm Dinner- 8:00 pm Presentation
The Alta Club- 100 East South Temple

Complementary parking is available on the north side of South Temple, east of the Eagle Gate apartment building. Valet service is available after 6pm.

     
     Priscilla Clapp

     Building Democracy in Burma 
      
 



Ms. Priscilla Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Asia Society and Blue Moon Fund, and as a member of the International Advisory Board of the U.S. Institute of Peace. She is now a frequent speaker on U.S.-Burma relations and Building Democracy in Burma at American Committees on Foreign Relations across the U.S.

During her 30-year career with the U.S. Government, Ms. Clapp served as Chief of Mission and permanent Charge’ d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Burma (1999-2002), Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in South Africa (1993-96), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Refugee Programs (1989-1993), Deputy Political Counselor in the US Embassy in Moscow (1986-88), and chief of political-military affairs in the US Embassy in Japan (1981-85).  She also worked on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, in its East Asian, Political Military, and International Organizations Bureaus, and with the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.  She speaks Russian, Japanese, French, and some Burmese.
Prior to government service, Ms. Clapp spent ten years in foreign policy and arms control research, with the MIT Center for International Studies and as a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. 

Her books include: with Morton Halperin, Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (Brookings, 2006), with I.M.Destler et al., Managing an Alliance: the Politics of U.S.-Japanese Relations (Brookings, 1976), with Morton Halperin, U.S.-Japanese Relations in the 1970's (Harvard, 1974).  She is a frequent media commentator and the author of numerous publications on Burma and U.S. Burma policy with USIP, Brookings Institution, the East-West Center, Australia National University, the Asia Society and others.
 
Please RSVP by 3pm Tuesday, May 21, by one of the following: phone Lynda Sayge (801)561-1663, or email Lynda Sayge at saygehen@xmission.com .  Please leave your name and the number in your party.  Your committee must guarantee reservations to the caterer by 3pm, 2 days prior to the dinner, therefore, reservations made after the deadline will be taken for speaker only.  Please cancel reservations by 3pm on May 21, if you know you will not be attending the meeting. You are responsible for your own and guests fees if you do not attend after making reservations. Dinner fees; Member $30, Guests $40.