DATE: 4 p.m. March 23, 2006.

EVENT: David Petraeus, commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, will give the 2006 Citigroup Lecture at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. His talk is entitled” Observations from Soldiering in Iraq.”

From June 2004 to September 2005, Petraeus was deployed in Iraq as the first commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command and the NATO Training Mission.

He previously commanded the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), leading the” Screaming Eagles” in combat during the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His command of the 101st followed a year with Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, where he was the assistant chief of staff for operations of the NATO Stabilization Force and the deputy commander of the U.S. Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorism Task Force-Bosnia.

Petraeus received his bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a doctorate in international relations from Princeton University in 1987. U.S. News & World Report named him one of America’s 25 Best Leaders.

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 dialogue and to give a public lecture.

PLACE: Hale Auditorium (Ross Business School), 701 Tappan St., Ann Arbor. Map: http://www.umich.edu/news/Maps/ccamp.html

SPONSOR: Citigroup Foundation.