Events Detail

The Return of an

Aggressive Cuban Foreign Policy

featuring

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

for Western Hemisphere Affairs

Roger Pardo-Maurer

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Hudson Institute

1015 15^th Street, NW

Sixth Floor

Washington, DC

(Please note Hudson’s new location

on McPherson Square at 15^th and K Streets.)

Mr. Pardo-Maurer is the senior political appointment in the Defense Department with responsibility for hemispheric security. Before joining the Department of Defense, he was president of Emerging Market Access, a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C.  He was also a managing partner of Access NAFTA Project Management, a trade and investment advisory firm based in Washington, D.C. and Mexico City. He has worked as a specialist in Latin American and U.S.-Hispanic issues at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Mr. Pardo-Maurer joined the Southern Front of the Nicaraguan Resistance in 1986, and served through 1989 as chief-of-staff of the representative of the Nicaraguan Resistance in Washington D.C. He was the original conduit for contacts between the governments of Costa Rica and the United States which developed into the Central American peace process, and was actively involved in the process that culminated in the cease-fire and democratic elections in Nicaragua.

He obtained a B.A. in history from Yale University, and a postgraduate degree (with distinction) in development economics from King’s College at Cambridge University, where he was cofounder of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, the graduate and faculty journal of the international relations department.

To RSVP, email rsvp@hudson.org or call 202-974-2400.