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Listen at home with a glass of wine. The original live meeting scheduled at The Citadel has been changed to a virtual meeting due to the threat of COVID. Registration is required. WACC members and friends will receive registration information.

The speaker will be Al Thibault, World Affairs Council of Charleston Program Chairman.

Al Thibault had a career of 35 years as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. State Department, the majority of which was spent in South Asia. He served as Deputy U.S. Ambassador in India and in Nepal. He was Deputy Consul General in Karachi, and U. S. Consul General in Lahore, both in Pakistan. He was also Political Officer in Sri Lanka.  

In the Persian Gulf region he was Political Counselor and then Deputy Ambassador in Saudi Arabia. In Washington, he was Director for Afghan refugee assistance, visiting refugee camps and coordinating with nongovernmental organizations. Al speaks Hindi and Urdu and was a graduate student at U Penn in India before joining the State Department. During his active career he was considered one of the Department’s leading South Asia experts.