Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science - United States and Europe - Challenges to a Crucial Partnership

Jan Eliasson, Swedish Ambassador to the U.S., will share his reflections on the European Union and the global economy.

Prior to assuming this position in 2000, he was deputy secretary of state of Sweden for six years. He was Sweden's ambassador to the United Nations in New York from 1988 until 1992, and served as the secretary general's personal representative on Iran/Iraq during that period.