Meet the Speaker: David Robinson

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Ambassador David Robinson retired from the United States Senior Foreign Service in 2017. He served as an American diplomat for more than three decades, principally in conflict zones and developing countries, including Afghanistan, Bosnia and El Salvador. Ambassador Robinson is U.S. Ambassador to Guyana (Retired).

As Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration and most recently as Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, he focused on forced migration and refugee crises and immediate post-conflict stabilization challenges in, among other places, Somalia, Venezuela, and Syria. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1977 and is currently a lecturer at Yale University.

Speaker:
David Robinson, Yale University