NEW YORK – Co-Editor and Publisher of Ethnikos Kirikas/The National Herald Eraklis A. Diamataris hosts his third Zoom discussion.

This week's esteemed guest is Heather A. Conley, the Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic; and Director, Europe Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies think tank in Washington, DC.

Topics that were discussed included Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and the stability of the Eastern Mediterranean region as a whole.

Prior to joining CSIS as a senior fellow and director for Europe in 2009, Conley served four years as executive director of the Office of the Chairman of the Board at the American National Red Cross. From 2001 to 2005, she was deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs with responsibilities for U.S. bilateral relations with the countries of Northern and Central Europe. From 1994 to 2001, she was a senior associate with an international consulting firm led by former U.S. deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.

Conley began her career in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. She was selected to serve as special assistant to the coordinator of U.S. assistance to the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, and she has received two State Department Meritorious Honor Awards. Conley is frequently featured as a foreign policy analyst and Europe expert on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, and PBS, among other prominent media outlets. She received her B.A. in international studies from West Virginia Wesleyan College and her M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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