EVENT:

Please join us on Thursday, January 13, for an online press briefing with Ambassador Michael Carpenter, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Ambassador Carpenter will provide a readout of the January 13 OSCE Permanent Council’s discussion of the crisis in and around Ukraine. He will take questions from participating journalists.

The briefing is on-the-record and will be conducted in English. URL and Dial-in info will be provided upon rsvp.

BIO:

Ambassador Michael Carpenter was nominated by President Biden to serve as the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 3, 2021, by unanimous consent.

Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Carpenter was the Managing Director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2015-17, Dr. Carpenter served in the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, and Conventional Arms Control. Previously, he worked in the White House as a foreign policy advisor to then-Vice President Biden and as Director for Russia at the National Security Council. Prior to his White House jobs, Carpenter was a career Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, where his roles included Deputy Director of the Office of Russian Affairs, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Political-Military Officer, and Advisor on Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts. He served overseas in the U.S. Embassies in Poland, Slovenia, and Barbados.

His full bio can be found here.

LOGISTICS:

Participants should join the briefing 10 minutes early.
Ambassador Carpenter will give brief opening remarks and then the question-and-answer session will begin.
If you join via the Zoom application or URL, you may submit your questions by clicking on the “questions and answers” tab and typing in your question. If you join telephonically, you can enter the questions queue by pressing “*” and “9” at any time. Questions may be also submitted in advance via the Eventbrite RSVP page or via e-mail to TheBrusselsHub@state.gov
Participants using the Zoom app or URL can “up-vote” one another’s questions in the “questions and answers” tab by clicking the “like” button to the right of that question.
If you experience technical difficulties during the call, you may email TheBrusselsHub@state.gov to alert the moderator to any issues.

Online Press Briefing with U.S. Ambassador to OSCE Michael Carpenter