Security in East Asia
Sir Tim Hitchens is President of Wolfson College, Oxford. He is also a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner and Chairman of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Before coming to the University of Oxford, Sir Hitchens was the Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Summit Unit. He also served as the Director-General, Economic and Consular at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Sir Hitchens is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and has extensive experience in his more than thirty years as a diplomat, which have taken him to parts of the world as diverse as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and France. He has spent three years as Foreign and Commonwealth Office director for Africa. Most recently, between 2012 and 2016, Sir Hitchens was the British Ambassador in Japan. He will be discussing security in East Asia during the seminar.
Date: 25 February 2020, 20:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Speaker: Sir Tim Hitchens (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: leanne.iorio@politics.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Cost: Free for members; £2 for non-members
Audience: Public
Editor: Leanne Iorio