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PGP Series: A Talk With Dana Banks

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The Moynihan Institute’s Practice of Global Politics Series presents a talk with Dana Banks.

A diplomat with more than 23 years of service to the United States, Dana Banks has most recently served as special assistant to the president, special adviser for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, and senior director for Africa at the National Security Council, where she was responsible for coordinating and leading U.S.-Africa policy for the Biden-Harris administration from 2021 to 2023.

Prior to that, she was deputy director of the Foreign Service Institute’s Leadership and Management School’s Division of Executive Development. She has also served in Thailand, Haiti, South Africa, Tanzania, and in Togo as deputy chief of mission. In Washington, she has served as a senior watch officer in the Operations Center, as special assistant to the assistant secretary of State for Africa, and as a desk officer in the Office of West African Affairs.


Category

Social Science and Public Policy

Type

Talks

Region

Campus

Open to

Public

Organizer

MAX-Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Contact

George Tsaoussis Carter
315.443.9248

gtsaouss@syr.edu

Accessibility

Contact George Tsaoussis Carter to request accommodations

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We’re Turning 100!


To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”

Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.