Keys to Sovereignty and Independence in the Future of Central Asia

UW Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA) lecture, Room 313.

About the speaker: A career member of the Foreign Service, Pamela L. Spratlen has 30 years of policy and leadership accomplishment across a variety of assignments. Most recently, she was the Senior Advisor to the US State Department Health Incident Response Task Force and the Senior Advisor of the Office of Inspector General in the US State Department, Inspections Division. She was the U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2015-2018 and Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) from 2011-2014.  She has also served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan (2009-2011). Ambassador Spratlen’s senior Washington assignments include her roles as Director of Western European Affairs (2007-08), Director of Central Asian Affairs (2006-2007), Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia (December 2007 – May 2008) and Special Assistant to the Counselor of the State Department (2005-2006). Ambassador Spratlen served overseas as Consul General in Vladivostok, Russia (2002-2004).

During this event, Spratlen will talk about the policies she was sent to support during her time as Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and the future of those efforts in a challenged region.