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Lake Forest, Ill.-—The 2003 German Marshall Visiting Fellow at Lake Forest College is Bulgarian political scientist, Dr. Ognyan D. Minchev. He will present a lecture titled, “Eastern Europe in the Developing Global World,” on Wednesday, February 19 at 4 p.m. in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel. The public is invited to attend the lecture free of charge. For more information please contact 847-735- 6010. Minchev specializes in international relations and is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for Regional and International Studies, an independent public policy and research institution. He chairs the Department of Political Science of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bulgaria. In the 1990s he was active in the Helsinki human rights movement and other organizations pushing reform in post-Communist Bulgaria, serving in 1991 and 1992 in the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly as member of the international executive council and as Chair of the Bulgarian Committee. More recently, he held positions in the Open Society organization and spent six weeks as a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies-–the Program for Eastern Europe in Washington, D.C. Dr. Minchev’s visit is made possible through a grant from The German Marshall Fund of the United States to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, as part of a major effort to increase understanding between prominent Europeans and young Americans. German Marshall Fund Campus Fellows are successful men and women from business, journalism, public service, and other professions who are placed on the campuses of small liberal arts colleges for a week of intensive dialogue with students and faculty. The Fund was established in 1972 by a gift from the federal Republic of Germany to commemorate American postwar assistance under the Marshall Plan. Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The college has 1,300 students representing 45 states and 43 other countries.
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