Lee Hamilton to Speak At Marian College

The Honorable Lee Hamilton (right) will give his "Thoughts on American Foreign Policy" as part of the Global Studies Speaker Series at Marian College, 3200 Cold Springs Road, Indianapolis. His presentation, at 7 p.m. 26 September in the Indianapolis Civic Theatre on the Marian campus is open to the public at no charge. However, Advance registration is required.

Lee Hamilton represented Indiana’s 9th congressional district from 1965-1999. He served as chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and he chaired the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and numerous other House committees. In 2006, Hamilton was co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, a forward looking, bi-partisan assessment of the situation in Iraq. He served as vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission and co-chair of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, established to monitor implementation of the Commission’s recommendations.

Hamilton is currently a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, and he serves on the advisory boards of several government agencies on national security matters. Lee Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University.