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FULLY BOOKED - We apologize but the
Boardroom is full.
The Task Force will host Ambassador Fried, State Department’s Sanctions
Coordinator to talk with US businesses working in Burma. He will be accompanied
by members of his team from State and Treasury. Amb. Fried can also discuss NK
Sanctions if there is any interest.
A light lunch will be available to all those registered 24 hours in advance.
ABOUT AMBASSADOR FRIED
Daniel Fried assumed his position as the State Department’s Coordinator for
Sanctions Policy on January 28, 2013.
Prior to that, Ambassador Fried served as Special Envoy for Closure of
the Guantanamo Detainee Facility starting on May 15, 2009, with the additional
responsibility as the Secretary’s Special Advisor on Camp Ashraf (Iraq) from
November, 2011.
Daniel Fried served from May 5, 2005
until May 15, 2009 as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian
Affairs and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
European and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council from January,
2001 to May, 2005.
Ambassador Fried was Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the Secretary of State
for the New Independent States from May 2000 until January 2001. He was
Ambassador to Poland from November 1997 until May 2000.
Daniel Fried, of Washington, DC, began his career with the Foreign Service in
1977. He served in the Economic Bureau of the State Department from 1977 to
1979; at the U.S. Consulate General in then-Leningrad from 1980 to 1981; as
Political Officer in the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade from 1982 to 1985; and in the
Office of Soviet Affairs at the State Department from 1985 to 1987. Ambassador
Fried was Polish Desk Officer at the State Department from 1987 to 1989 as
democracy returned to Poland and Central Europe. He served as Political
Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw from 1990 to 1993.
Ambassador Fried served on the staff of the National Security Council from 1993
until 1997, first as a Director and then as Special Assistant to the President
and Senior Director for Central and Eastern Europe. In his service during the Administrations of
the first President Bush, President Clinton, President George W. Bush, and the
early months of the Obama Administration, Ambassador Fried was active in
designing and implementing U.S. policy to advance freedom and security in
Central and Eastern Europe, NATO enlargement, and the Russia-NATO relationship.
