What is Putin’s Game Plan?
Join us Friday, September 7th as we bring William P. Pope to join us for breakfast. Pope will discuss our foreign relations policy. Botswana, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Libya or France. Pope has been there, done that. Walk with his story through the trials and errors on the diplomatic front, as well as the background story of America’s effort to Make America Great!
$25 for Members
$30 for Non Members
Friday, September 7th
7:30 am to 9:00 am
Stonebridge Country Club
2100 Winding Oaks Way
Naples, FL 34109
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Bio
Mr. Pope attended the University of Virginia and Georgetown University. He served as a Russian linguist in the U.S. Army Security Agency and attended the National War College and the Department of Defense’s flag officer training course, “Capstone.”
Over 44 years with the U.S. Department of State, Mr. Pope had overseas tours as Acting Ambassador in Rome, Deputy Ambassador in The Hague and served in Pretoria, Paris and elsewhere. He held senior positions in Washington, including Acting Assistant Secretary for Counter-terrorism; Director of the USG Interagency Sanctions Task Force; and Country Desk Officer for Libya. He was awarded the State Department’s Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards and its Career Achievement Award.
After retiring from the Foreign Service, Mr. Pope was called back to the State Department to work on several projects, including a terrorism-related activity in Pakistan and on U.S. cyber policy under the Office of the Secretary of State. He also was the Senior Advisor for Europe at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations for the 63rd-71st sessions of the UN General Assembly (2008-16).
Mr. Pope served for a decade as a Trustee of the Fisher House Foundation, a veterans’ service organization, and continues on its Advisory Board. He was a Diplomatic Fellow at George Mason University, where he taught graduate courses in Bio-defense and Counter-terrorism. He also was an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, where he taught a graduate-level course on Counter-terrorism.
Mr. Pope is retired in Naples, Florida, where he is on the Board of the Center for Critical Thinking and a member of the Program Committee of the Naples Council on World Affairs. He was a luncheon speaker on U.S. foreign policy for the International Men’s Club and is an active member of similar discussion organizations in Naples. Mr. Pope has been a panelist at the St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs and has spoken before the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. He volunteers at the Avow Hospice in Naples, where he works primarily with veterans.
