Foreign Policy and the Presidential Election: A Post-Debate Debrief

The Ford School and the Weiser Diplomacy Center invite all University of Michigan students to join us for an event entitled Foreign Policy and the Presidential Election with Ambassador Susan Page and Associate Professor John Ciorciari directly following the Presidential Debate on October 22 at 10:30pm.

About the Speakers:

Ambassador Susan D. Page (sdpage@umich.edu), a former diplomat, joined the Ford School faculty, and the Weiser Diplomacy Center in 2020 as a Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy. She also serves as a Professor from Practice at the Law School. Ambassador Page has served the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations in senior roles for decades, across East, Central, and Southern Africa, and in Haiti and Nepal. She was the first U.S. ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan and served as deputy assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, covering Central and Southern Africa, and Sudan; legal adviser to the regionally-led peace process that resulted in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) for Sudan. Ambassador Page also served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH). Among her other roles, she was attorney-adviser for Politico-Military Affairs in the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, USAID regional legal advisor in Kenya and Botswana covering East and Southern Africa, and political officer in Rwanda.

John Ciorciari (johncior@umich.edu) is an Associate Professor of Public Policy. His research interests include international law and politics in the Global South, particularly in Asia. He has been a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and as a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford's Asia-Pacific Research Center. From 2004-07, he served as a policy official in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of International Affairs. Since 1999, he has been a legal advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which promotes memory and justice. He is the co-author of Hybrid Justice: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Michigan, 2014) and author of The limits of Alignment: Southeast Asia and the Great Powers Since 1975 (Georgetown, 2010). He is part of the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.