Democracy Talk: Why American Democracy Matters to the World
Join Keough School of Global Affairs Marilyn Keough Dean Mary Gallagher in conversation with Ambassador Chris Lu, a leading practitioner of public policy and global affairs.
Lu is an accomplished senior leader with a proven policy, diplomacy, management, communications, and strategy development track record. In addition to holding some of the most consequential management positions in the federal government, he oversaw the 2008 Obama-Biden presidential transition planning and served as then-Senator Obama’s Chief of Staff.
In this Democracy Talk, Ambassador Lu will comment on how the strength of American democracy matters to the rest of the world from the perspective of someone who defended American values at the United Nations.
More about Ambassador Lu:
Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform (2022-2025)
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor (2014-2017)
White House Cabinet Secretary (2009-2013)
Co-sponsored by the Democracy Initiative and the Keough School of Global Affairs' Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.