DATE: 4 p.m. March 15, 2006.

EVENT: Aaron David Miller, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former adviser to six secretaries of state on Arab-Israeli negotiations, will give the 2006 Citigroup Lecture at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His talk is titled” Is Arab-Israeli Peace Possible? Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Negotiations.”

Between 2003 and 2006, Miller served as president of Seeds of Peace, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance coexistence and reconciliation.

For the previous two decades, he served at the Department of State as an adviser to six secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior adviser for Arab-Israeli negotiations. He also served as the deputy special Middle East coordinator for Arab-Israeli negotiations, senior member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and in the Office of the Historian. Miller received his doctorate in American Diplomatic and Middle East History from U-M in 1977.

The Citigroup Foundation, honoring President Gerald R. Ford’s long affiliation with Citigroup, Inc., established the endowed Citigroup Lecture Series. The series, which began in 2001, brings prominent policymakers from the national and international arenas to the Ford School each year to engage students and faculty in discussions and to give public lectures.

Previous lecturers include: Lawrence Summers, U.S. Treasury secretary 1999-2001; Oscar Arias, president of Costa Rica 1986-1990 and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1987; and Joseph Stiglitz, senior vice president for development economics and chief economist for the World Bank, 1997-2000.

PLACE: Hale Auditorium (Ross School of Business), 701 Tappan Street, corner of Hill Street, in Ann Arbor. Map: map: http://www.umich.edu/news/Maps/ccamp.html

SPONSOR: Citigroup Foundation.