ESU To Feature Presentation By Dr. Zygimantas Pavilionis, Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States

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Dr. Zygimantas Pavilionis, the Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States, will speak at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24.  The lecture, titled Lithuania: The Start-up Nation, will be held in the Niedbala Auditorium of the Hoeffner Science and Technology Center. The ambassador will speak on technology developments, entrepreneurship, and the crisis in Ukraine.

Ambassador Pavilionis is a diplomat of Lithuania, focused on his country’s European Union accession and transatlantic relations. He earned his master’s degree in philosophy and Ph.D. in international relations, both at Vilnius University of Lithuania. Since 1993, where he first joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has obtained titles in the Lithuanian MFA, and most currently the Ambassador-at-Large and Chief Coordinator for Lithuania’s Presidency of the Community of Democracies and Chief Coordinator for Transatlantic Relations. He has served as Ambassador to the United States since 2010.

ESU has previously hosted speakers who were experts in foreign policy and international relations such as: Jonas Hafström, the Swedish Ambassador to the United States; Friis Arne Petersen, Denmark’s former Ambassador to the United States; Dr. Margaret G. Hermann, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University; Dr. David T. Armitage, former senior European specialist and head of the European Regional Analysis at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research; and Hr. Munir Akram, former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations.

This event, which is sponsored by ESU’s political science department and college of arts and sciences, is free and open to the public.

For more information, assistance or special accommodations contact Leif Johan Eliasson, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, at 570-422-3250.