FORMER ASSISTANT SEC. OF DEFENSE TO SPEAK AT ROTARY THURSDAY

  
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James Clad

James Clad former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia will speak on Oil Prices and National Security at the Rotary Club of Washington County Thursday at noon. The public is invited to attend the event at Cannery Kitchen, 314 East Alamo Street in Brenham. Event attendees who desire to eat lunch should check-in at the Rotary table just inside the dining hall. Cost for the buffet lunch is $10.00.

Clad consults for energy and investment firms, and is senior adviser at the Center for Naval Analyses and at Jane’s Defence and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). During 2002-10, he served as US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia and as senior counselor at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Agency for International Development. From 1995-2002 he held a Georgetown University Luce foundation professorship and was, concurrently, Director/Asia-Pacific Energy at CERA.

Trained as a New Zealand lawyer, his career has focused on Asian commercial and security affairs broadening after 2002 to include the Middle East. In the 1980s-90s, he wrote for the Far Eastern Economic Review, and had fellowships from St. Antony’s College, Oxford, from the Carnegie Endowment, and from Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. He also served in the New Zealand diplomatic service.

His first book, Business, Money & Power in Southeast Asia (1991), surveyed Asian capitalism while his next, After the Crusade (1996), critiqued US foreign policy. His most recent book is a volume on political geography, The Borderlands of Southeast Asia. He received the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service Award in 2009 and, in June 2011, became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a royal honor. He is married to Aurora Medina, a World Bank official, and has three children.

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