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New Challenges, New Opportunities in British Foreign Policy

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Event Date

  • 9/4/2007   6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    Please arrive early for registration

Location

  • The World Affairs Council Auditorium

Address

  • 312 Sutter Street
    Second Floor
    San Francisco, California 94108
Speaker(s)
Dr. Kim Howells, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom

Dr Kim Howells was appointed Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in May 2005.

His responsibilities include: Middle East (including Iraq and Iran), Counter Terrorism, Counter Proliferation, South America and North America, Drugs and International Crime, UK Visas, Migration Policy, Leads on Afghanistan/Sub-Continent in Commons.

He was previously Minister of State at the Department for Education and Skills. He has also held Ministerial posts at the Department for Transport, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Department for Trade and Industry.

Dr Howells was born in 1946 and is married with three children. He is MP for Pontypridd and was educated at Mountain Ash Grammar School; Hornsey College of Art; Cambridge College of Art & Technology and Warwick University.

Event Details

Dr. Kim Howells, Minister of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom, will join the Council to discuss the British Government's policies regarding terrorism, immigration, Iraq and nuclear non-proliferation. Howells was appointed Minister of State in May 2005 and is responsible for the Middle East, Afghanistan and South Asia, Counter Narcotics, Counter Proliferation, Counter Terrorism, UN and UN Reform. Dr. Howells was previously Minister of State at the Department for Education and Skills. He has also held Ministerial posts at the Department for Transport, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Department for Trade and Industry. Dr. Howells is the first British minister to visit the west coast of the United States since the government of Gordon Brown took office in June 2007.

This event is co-sponsored by the British-American Business Council.

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