May 25, 2017
You are cordially invited to join the guest lecture of John Marks, founder and Ex-President/CEO of Search for Common Ground (SFCG).
John Marks also founded Common Ground Productions (CGP) and produced and/or executive-produced TV series in more than 20 countries. He remains a Senior Advisor to both SFCG and CGP. In addition, he is Visiting Scholar in Peacebuilding and Social Entrepreneurship at Leiden University in the Netherlands.听
He will be happy to share his life - path, talk about social entrepreneurship and track II diplomacy with you.
Date: 听8th June, 2017
Time: 18:00
Venue: 缅北强奸, Conference Hall
John D. Marks is the founder and former president of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that focuses on international conflict management programming. Marks now acts as a Senior Adviser to SFCG. He is also a former Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. Department of State and co-authored the 1974 controversial non-fiction book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence with Victor Marchetti.
Marks is a graduate of Cornell University. He worked for five years with the State Department, first in Vietnam and then as an analyst and staff assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. After leaving the State Department, he became Executive Assistant for foreign policy to US Senator Clifford Case (R-NJ), responsible within the Senator's office for passage of the Case-Church amendment, which eventually cut off funding for the Vietnam War. He also worked with Marchetti on a book about the need to reform the Central Intelligence Agency.听
John Marks is the recipient of numerous awards:
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