Oct 18, 2016

Joe Barnes, the Bonner Means Baker Fellow at the Baker Institute of Public Policy, will speak about how the upcoming presidential election could affect foreign policy on Oct. 27 12:30-1:30 p.m in the College of the Mainland Learning Resources Center Auditorium.

The lecture, part of COM’s International Speaker Series, is open to the public. 

From 1979 to 1993, Barnes was a career diplomat with the U.S. State Department, serving in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. He has written extensively on international economics, with a focus on the geopolitics of energy, and he has been published in “The New York Times,” “Houston Chronicle” and “The National Interest.” Barnes is a graduate of Princeton University.

For more information, contact John Presnall at jpresnall@com.edu or 409-933-8126.