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About the Speaker: Since 2017, Todd Schwartz has been the Executive Director of the European American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cincinnati which supports trade and investment between the Cincinnati Tri-State Region and Europe.  Previously Schwartz had been a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State, with diplomatic postings in West Germany, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Qatar, the Philippines, Kuwait, Canada, and Iraq, as well as several assignments at the State Department in Washington DC.  He is a graduate of Centerville High School (go Elks!) and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics from Miami University in 1986.

About the Program: The Dayton Accords, concluded in 1995 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, formally put an end to the 3-1/2 year Bosnian war, one of numerous conflicts that erupted as Yugoslavia disintegrated after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Rich Lauf, Board Member of the World Affairs Council – Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, will provide a brief overview of the period and how the Dayton Accords were reached, then Todd Schwartz will explain his role on the “Serbian Sanctions Task Force” at the U.S. Department of State enforcing U.S. and United Nations Sanctions aimed at ending the conflict by stopping the flow of fuel and other supplies – work for which he received a Meritorious Honor Award in 1993 to 1994.