Editorials

Peter Gooderham, Counsellor of Politico-Military/European Affairs at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., will be the featured speaker at a noontime lecture Thursday on the UC Berkeley campus. 

His topic will be “A European Defense Identity: What Does It Mean for America?” The talk, sponsored by the Institute for Governmental Studies, will be held at noon in 119 Moses Hall. 

Gooderham joined the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1983. The main focus of his career has been on defense and security issues. He served as a member of the UK Delegation to NATO from 1985 to 1987, working principally on arms control questions. He was Deputy Head of the FCO’s Security Policy Department from 1993-96, overseeing British policy toward NATO and the Western European Union. 

Before taking up his position in the Washington Embassy, Gooderham worked as Counsellor (Economic, Social and Environment) at the UK Mission to the UN in New York from 1996 to 1999. 

Gooderham is a graduate in Politics and Economics from Newcastle University in England. Prior to joining the British Diplomatic Service he completed a Ph.D. thesis at Bristol University in modern Russian and Soviet history. His research took him to Moscow State University, where he was a British Council exchange scholar from 1978-79. 

For more information call 510-642-4608 or visit the IGS web site at www.igs.berkeley.edu:8880