Lecture: Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution - Colorado College

Lecture: Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution

Pavol Demes has been the Director for Central and Eastern Europe of the German Marshall Fund of the United States since January 2000, and is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. An internationally recognized NGO leader, Demes served as the elected spokesperson of the Gremium of the Third Sector, a volunteer advocacy coalition, and has served on the boards of national and international associations and foundations. In 1999 he was awarded a six-month public policy research fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C He is a graduate of Charles University in Prague (1980). He received the EU-US Democracy and Civil Society Award (in 1998), the USAID Democracy and Governance Award (1999), Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau (2005), Yugoslav Star of First Class (2005). Sponsored by Sponsored by the W. Lewis and Helen R. Abbott Memorial Fund

Location: Gaylord Hall, main floor of Worner Campus Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave. (map)

Tickets: free

This event is open to the general public.