PLF Lunch with Students: "National Security Policy: From Academia to Practice"

Pacific Leadership Fellow Student Event

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Sigrid Arzt, co-director of Mexico's non-profit association Democracy, Human Rights, and Security; former Technical Secretary of Mexico’s National Security Council

October 06, 2009

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Dean's Conference Room, Robinson Building Complex
Open to: Students

Pacific Leadership Fellow Sigrid Arzt will share lunch with IR/PS students on Tuesday, October 6 at 12:30 p.m. in the Dean's Conference Room. During this casual talk, Ms. Arzt will discuss her career path, touching on the educational background and important steps that led her to a lifetime of work in public policy and national security. This is an excellent opportunity for any students interested in public policy and human rights to hear first-hand tales from the field.

Lunch will be served to the first 25 students, facutly, or staff who R.S.V.P. (Click the "Register" button under the photo.)

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The former Technical Secretary of Mexico’s National Security Council under President Felipe Calderón’s administration, Sigrid Arzt has also served as a consultant for the World Bank and has presented numerous workshops for local governments on crime and violence prevention. She recently was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and she also served as co-director of Mexico City’s non-profit association Democracy, Human Rights and Security, which she founded in 2003. Ms. Arzt holds academic degrees from the Universidad Iberoamericana and Notre Dame University.