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Ambassador Anne Hall is a career officer of the Foreign Service who reached the highest rank, serving as US Ambassador to Lithuania from 2016 until she retired in 2019. Her deep policy expertise is Eastern Europe – the Baltic states, Poland, and the Nordic countries – although she also served in China, Colombia and Brazil. Ambassador Hall was involved in the planning which brought the Baltic countries into NATO in 2004, while serving in the Office of Nordic and Baltic Affairs. She then served in Poland and as chargé d’affaires in Lithuania. In 2013-2014, as Director of the Office of Central and Eastern European Affairs, she had broad responsibility for US policy toward all the former Soviet Bloc states that had joined NATO and the West. In 2016 she became Ambassador to Lithuania.
Anne is a Mainer and our neighbor, living in Blue Hill. She speaks five languages – Lithuanian, Polish, Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She grew up in Orono and graduated from the University of Maine, where she now serves as Chair of the Board of Advisors for UMaine’s Graduate School of Policy and International Affairs.
The talk is free and open to the public with a reception to follow.
Reservations are not required – just bring yourself and a friend!
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