Anti-Corruption in Iraq Colloquium Sept. 12, 2007 in Arlington, VA

The speaker at the colloquium is Paul Tyson, who I worked with at the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity in 2005. He started at CPI in mid-2004 when I did, and he replaced the outgoing CPI founder, Chuck Grinnell in early 2005 and Paul left in mid-2005 before I did.
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Peace Operations Policy Program
School of Public Policy
Peace and Stability Operations Colloquium The Peace Operations Policy Program of the School of Public Policy, George Mason University is proud to present the following in its "Peace and Stability Operations Colloquium Series" of events:

Anti-Corruption in Iraq: The Bridge Too
Far?

Date:
Wednesday, 12 September 2007

Time:
1:00 PM-3:30 PM

Location:
George Mason University
3401 North Fairfax
Drive, Room 317
Arlington, Virginia
22201
(Virginia Sq/GMU Metro
station)
http://coyote.gmu.edu/map/arling.html

Speaker:
Paul H. Tyson

Paul H. Tyson has spent the last three years engaged in Iraq issues on behalf of the U.S.
Department of State. He will join us to discuss his time working as the senior U.S. Embassy official for the newly established Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity. Tyson is currently the Senior Director for International Business at PRO-telligent LLC. Prior to his Iraq work, he had been assigned to State's Office of the Inspector General (1999-2003) where he evaluated and suggested improvements for the Front Offices, Economic, Political and Public Diplomacy sections of U.S. missions overseas and in Washington, D.C. Other past positions include work in the Bureau of Political Military Affairs Executive Office (1998) to draft an agreement on Department of Defense-State personnel exchanges; in U.S.
Embassy Kuwait (1993-96) where he tracked the
$2 billion dollar foreign military sales program; in U.S. Embassy London (1989-93) where he served as an expert on electricity privatization; and in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (1988-89) where he negotiated Third World debt resolution. Tyson also served as a civilian observer with the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula (1985-86). He has a B.A. in Government-Urban Studies from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from George Washington University, and an M.S. in National Security Strategy from the National War College.

Host:
Robert W. "Bill" Farrand, Amb.
(Ret.)
Peace Operations Policy Program, GMU

RSVP: Please contact Dr. Allison
Frendak at 703.993.4983 or afrendak@gmu.edu