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Lake Forest, Ill.—Lake Forest College and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR) will sponsor a lecture and discussion by Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel titled “Conflict Diamonds: The Kimberly Process Certification Scheme,” on Thursday, February 19 from 6:30–8 p.m. in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel, located on the College’s Middle Campus. For more information please call 847-735-6010. The event is open to the public. Tickets are $20 for CCFR members and $30 for nonmembers. Admission is free to Lake Forest College students, faculty, and staff. Refreshments will be available in the Wood Lounge from 6–6:30 p.m. Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, vice president for program at The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, is an authority on U.S.–European relations, specializing in U.S.–German relations. Prior to joining The Chicago Council, Ambassador Bindenagel was a U.S. special negotiator and led the U.S. government’s Kimberley Process negotiating team to ban trade in “conflict diamonds” used to finance rebellions in Africa. In his 28- year U.S. Foreign Service career, his assignments included U.S. ambassador and special envoy for agreements on forced labor, insurance, art, property restitution, and Holocaust education and remembrance (1999-2002); chargé d’affairs, U.S. embassy, Bonn/Berlin (1994-97); deputy U.S. ambassador in East Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989); director of Central European Affairs, U.S. State Department (1992-94); and head, U.S. embassy political affairs unit, Bonn, West Germany, during the deployment of U.S. Pershing missiles (1983). He also worked for Congressman Lee H. Hamilton as a congressional fellow (1987-88) and for Rockwell International as director for government-business programs (1991-92). Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 46 states and 50 other countries.
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