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January 27, 1998
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The 1998 Johns Hopkins Symposium on Foreign Affairs
Speaker Short Biographies
Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) has represented Maryland's Third
Congressional District
in Congress since 1987. Currently, he is a member of the Ways and
Means Committee and
serves on the Health Subcommittee. He is also a member of the
Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission).
Taiwanese Ambassador Steven Chen heads the Taipei Economic
and Cultural
Office (the effective Embassy of Taiwan) in the United States. He
was born in Nanjing,
China, and served the Republic of China early in his diplomatic
career. Many of these posts
concerned Chinese interests in Latin America. For the Taiwanese
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, he has served as vice minister, and as deputy
secretary-general for the Office of the
President.
Russian Ambassador Yuli M. Vorontsov has served as
ambassador from the
USSR to India, France, and Afghanistan. He headed the Soviet
delegation to the Belgrade
meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
In 1990, Vorontsov was
appointed the permanent representative of the Russian Federation
to the UN and
representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Security
Council. In 1994, he became the
ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States. Today
he serves as adviser to
President Boris N. Yeltsin on Foreign Affairs, as well.
Congressman Robert Ehrlich (R-MD) was elected in 1994 to
the U.S. House
of Representatives. He currently serves on the House Budget
Committee and the Banking and
Financial Services Committee. He was given the Exceptional
Legislator Award during the
104th Congress by the American Health Care Association.
Pakistani Ambassador Riaz Khokhar was assigned to the
Office of the Prime
Minister and worked directly under Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto from
1974 to 1977. He
participated in bilateral meetings with the Shah of Iran and with
President Daud of
Afghanistan to resolve border problems. He also served as the
ambassador to Bangladesh and
Bhutan as well as Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Defense under
Prime Ministers Bhutto,
Jatoi, and Sharif. Finally, he participated in several rounds of
foreign secretary and defense
secretary level talks between Pakistan and India on Kashmir and
Siachen. Today he serves as
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States.
Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD).
A son of Greek immigrants, Sarbanes graduated magna cum laude
with a Rhodes scholarship
from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International
Affairs. He served three terms
in the U.S. House of Representatives and in 1976 was elected to
the United States Senate. He
is a ranking member on the Senate Committee on the Budget and
also serves on the Joint
Economic Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. This past
summer his efforts were
instrumental in preventing stipulations in the controversial
Helms-Biden Bill, calling for a
potential withdrawal of the United States from the United
Nations, from passing.
Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Ben Elissar began his diplomatic
career as a
delegate to the World Zionist Congress and Director-General for
the Prime Minister's Office.
In 1977, he served as the head of Israel's first delegation to
the Mena House talks in Cairo.
Three years later he became Israel's first ambassador to Egypt,
and then a member of
Knesset in 1981. In 1991, he became a member of Israel's
delegation to the Madrid Peace
Conference, and finally a member of Israel's delegation to the UN
General Assembly.
Today, he serves as Israel's ambassador to the United States.
Mexican Ambassador Jesus Reyes-Heroles has served as the
Mexican envoy
to the United States since October 1997. Previously, he has been
Mexico's energy minister
and as director general in the Ministry of Finance. He has also
been the chief executive
officer of Mexico's infrastructural development bank. Heroles has
been a professor of
economics at Universidad Iberoamericana, one of Latin America's
primary universities.
Japanese Ambassador Kunihiko Saito entered the Ministry of
Foreign
Affairs of Japan in 1958. He has since served as counselor for
the Permanent Mission of
Japan to the European Communities, director general of the
Treaties Bureau and as vice-
minister for Foreign Affairs. In 1995, he was appointed
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America where he
has been a leading figure
in Japanese-US relations and in United Nations Security Council
enlargement.
Former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake served as
national security
advisor to President Clinton from 1993 to 1996. Most recently
he served as a senior foreign
policy advisor to the Clinton/Gore campaign. Clinton
characterizes Lake as the point man of
our foreign policy team ... in moments of crisis, in times of
triumph, he has always been at
my side. His state department career included assignments as
U.S. vice consul in Saigon
and vice consul in Hue. Lake also served as an aide to Henry
Kissinger and as director of
policy planning for President Carter in 1977. Lake is the author
of several books, including
Somoza Falling, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American
Foreign Policy
and The Tar Baby Option.
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