Yale School of Management: Convening Yale: A Conversation with Emma Sky, Author of “The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq.”

Event time: 
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 11:45am
Location: 
Edward P. Evans Hall, School Of Management See map
165 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Yale School of Management presents:

Convening Yale: A Conversation with Emma Sky, Author of “The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq.”

Please join us at the Yale School of Management on Monday, April 11 for a very special Convening Yale with Emma Sky, author of “The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq.” Ms. Sky is Director of Yale World Fellows and a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute, where she teaches Middle East politics. Her book was named One of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2015. Lunch will be served.

Emma served as advisor to the Commanding General of US Forces in Iraq from 2007-2010; as advisor to the Commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in 2006; as advisor to the US Security Co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace Process in 2005; and as Governorate Co-ordinator of Kirkuk for the Coalition Provisional Authority, 2003-2004.

Prior to that, Emma worked in the Palestinian territories for a decade, managing projects to develop Palestinian institutions; and to promote co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians. In addition, Emma has provided technical assistance on poverty elimination, human rights, justice public administration reform, security sector reform, and conflict resolution in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.

Emma has published numerous articles including in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico, Atlantic, Slate, Survival, Center for a New American Security, US Institute of Peace, the Guardian, and the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.

Emma was educated at Oxford (UK), Alexandria (Egypt), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) and Liverpool (UK).

Emma is an Officer of the British Empire.
 

Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
General Public