POSTPONED: Challenges of the US-Iran Relationship

Date: 

Thursday, February 18, 2021, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Onilne

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Robert Malley
US Special Envoy for Iran, Former President and CEO of the International Crisis Group

This event has been postponed.

Robert Malley is an American lawyer, political scientist and specialist in conflict resolution, who was the lead negotiator on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He is currently the U.S. Envoy to Iran, tasked with bringing the United States and Iran into compliance with the Iran deal abandoned by President Trump. Previously, Malley was President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, a Washington, D.C. non-profit committed to preventing wars. Prior to holding that title, he served at the National Security Council under Barack Obama from February 2014 until January 2017. In 2015, the Obama administration appointed Rob Malley as its "point man" on the Middle East, leading the Middle East desk of the National Security Council. In November 2015, Malley was named as President Obama's new special ISIS advisor.

Before negotiating the historic JCPOA, Malley was Program Director for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group and Assistant to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger (1996–1998) and the Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council (1994–1996). Malley is considered, by some, to be an expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and has written extensively on this subject advocating rapprochement with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood. As Special Assistant to President Clinton, he was a member of the U.S. peace team and helped organize the 2000 Camp David Summit.

Co-sponsors: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: Liz Flanagan