Ambassador Teresita Schaffer '66 to Discuss India-U.S. Dialogue in First Armstrong Lecture

On Thursday, March 22, Ambassador Teresita Schaffer '66 will give the Center for International Studies' inaugural Janee Armstrong lecture. The talk, titled "Dialogue of the Giant Democracies: The United States and India in the 21st Century," will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Dalton 300.

Schaffer became the director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies after a 30-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, during which she became one of the State Department's principal experts in South Asia. Prior to serving as U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka in 1992-95, Schaffer held the senior South Asia position in the State Department. Following her ambassadorship, she directed the Foreign Service Institute, the primary training institution for officers and support personnel of the U.S. foreign affairs community. Schaffer speaks French, Swedish, German, Italian, Hebrew, Hindi, Urdu, Bangla and Sinhala.

Her publications include "Sri Lanka: Lessons from the 1995 Negotiations," in Creating Peace in Sri Lanka (Brookings, 1998); two studies on women in Bangladesh; and "Kashmir: Fifty Years of Running in Place," in Grasping the Nettle (USIP, 2004). Reports published by CSIS include Rising India and U.S. Policy Options in Asia (2002), Pakistan's Future and U.S. Policy Options (2004), Kashmir: The Economics of Peace Building (2005) and several reports on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India.

Janee Armstrong '59 earned an A.B. in history from Bryn Mawr and a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been instrumental in bringing education about international relations, which remained her lifelong passion, to the public. The new Janee Armstrong Lecture Series continues that tradition at Bryn Mawr.

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