Retired United States Diplomat, Earle Scarlett – a Jamaican-born, US Department of State career officer – will deliver two public lectures on foreign policy and diplomacy on January 28 and 30 on the invitation of the Sir Arthur Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) of the University of the West Indies.
 
Mr. Scarlett will lecture on United States President Barrack Obama’s Foreign policy agenda – Opportunities and Constraints on January 28, and on A Diplomat’s Quiver – Handling the Unpredictable, on January 30th. Both lectures will take place at the Council Room of the University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters at 6:30 p.m., both days.
 
Students, academics and the general public interested in international relations and the art of diplomacy are invited to attend. 
 
A Jamaican by birth Mr. Earle Scarlett was a US career diplomat with the Department of State, from 1976-2004. He served as the State Department’s Senior Adviser for International Affairs at the Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Prior to that, he was Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Dublin, Ireland. Earlier, he was Director of Political Training at the Department of State’s George P. Shultz Foreign Affairs Training Center following several years of immersion in Balkans affairs.