John Hurford and Ambassador Heyward Isham
The Russian Elections and The Succession of Power

Both speakers are highly cognizant with Russia and her politics. John Hurford, President of this chapter of the World Affairs Council, was in Russia immediately prior to the elections with a delegation from the Jamestown Foundation. He is Vice-Chairman - Executive Committee and Mananging Director of BEA Associates, a New York based global investment management firm. Prior to joining BEA in 1969, he was employed by Lazard Freres and Company. He serves on many boards including The Jamestown Foundation, Associates of Harvard Business School, the Fulbright Association, the International Forum for Democratic Studies and the Institute for East/West Studies. Twice the recipient of Fulbright Fellowships, he spent two years in India where he lectured at the Institute for Economic Growth and the University of Delhi. He holds an A.B. economics from Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration.

Heyward Isham's distinguished career with the State Department includes assignments at the American Embassies in Berlin, Moscow, Hong Kong. He served as Chief of the U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam and as a member of the Policy Planning Staff involoved in a special study on China's nuclear weapons program. From 1974 to 1977, he was Ambassador to Haiti during the immediate aftermath of Dr. Francis Duvalier's regime. He has worked as Director of the Office of Combatting Terrorism, as Senior Foreign Service Inspector involved in policy-making in our Embassies around the world, Chairman of the Human Resources Committee - Intelligence Community Staff, coordinating inter-agency evaluations of reporting from U.S. diplomatice missions. More recently, he was a consulting editor at Doubleday, acquiring and editing Russian works, including Andrei Gromyko's memoirs. Currently, Mr. Isham is the Vice-President of the Institute for East/West Studies and Chair of the Russia Long Range Assessment Unit. One of his current projects is the publication of a quarterly review of changing patterns of power in post-Soviet Russia.

Please join us for this important lecture. A reception will follow. (There will be an admission charge for non-members.)

Saturday, August 31, 1996 at 5:00
Fine Arts Theater