U.S. envoy to talk about at ex-VP Atiku’s AUN graduation ceremony

The United States ambassador to Nigeria and Everlasting Manual to the United Countries Economic Rate for Africa (UNECA), Her Excellency Ms. Mary Beth Leonard, has been named keynote speaker at the 13th Graduation ceremony of the American College of Nigeria.

The annual graduation ceremony, scheduled for Saturday, Also can 21, at the AUN major campus, may well be preceded by the aged Honor Society Award Evening on Thursday and the Graduation Award ceremony on Friday. College students who possess grand themselves in lecturers, provider and management may well be known and honored.

The 13^th Graduation ceremony will characteristic the award of Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate degrees to graduates who possess met your complete requirements for the award of the grand American College of Nigeria’s diplomas from the Colleges of Records Know-how and Computing, Law, Alternate and Entrepreneurship, and Arts and Sciences.

President of AUN, Dr. Margee Ensign, described the sequence of Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard as Keynote Speaker as historical and famous.

“Ambassador Leonard’s search the advice of with to the American College of Nigeria is a reminder of the close ties and shared values between our two international locations; international locations dedicated to supporting training and democracy at a time when it is a long way below risk in noteworthy of the sphere. We are honored to welcome her to our glorious campus and take into fable forward, as enact our college students, to her remarks on this famous event.” 

The AUN Governing Council and Senate possess authorized the conferment of a Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa) on the keynote speaker.

Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard may well be continuing a tradition of change and interaction between excessive-level officials of the U.S. Authorities and AUN. Within the midst of its historical previous, excessive-ranking U.S. Authorities officials and public figures possess in general visited the College, interacting with and mentoring college students.

Ambassador Leonard’s grand diplomatic provider profession will resonate with college students and school at a historical moment when ladies possess assumed famous management positions at the College.

The American College of Nigeria is dedicated to creating an enabling atmosphere for ladies to excel in studying, profession, and management as reflected in membership in each and each the university’s Honor Society and in elected positions within the coed govt.

Ambassador Leonard is a profession member of the Senior International Provider, Class of Minister-Counselor. From 2016-to 2019, Ambassador Leonard was as soon as the Manual of the US of The United States to the African Union, with the corrupt and region of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, serving at the same time as as U.S. Everlasting Manual to the U.N. Economic Rate for Africa (UNECA). She was as soon as beforehand the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Mali from 2011-to 2014.

The ambassador graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Boston College, majoring in economics with a minor in French. In 1988, she earned a master’s level in global family members, emphasizing African compare, from the Johns Hopkins College College of Developed World Reviews.

In 2004, she bought a Master of Security and Strategic Reviews from the U.S. Naval War College with distinction. Being multilingual, Ambassador Leonard additionally speaks French, Spanish, Afrikaans, and Dutch.

Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard joins a revered array of diplomats, intellectuals, and civil society icons who possess delivered Keynote addresses at AUN, alongside side the gradual Archbishop Desmond Tutu (2009); ragged European Union ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. David Macrae (2011); Nationwide Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Dr. Robert Pastor (2012); Civil Rights icon Ms. Charlayne Hunter-Gault (2013); ragged U.S. Ambassador to the African Union, John A. Simon (2014); Columbian educationist Ms. Victoria Colbert; and the President of the African Pattern Bank (AfDB) Community, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina.

Daniel Okereke

Executive Director, Marketing and marketing & Communications

American College of Nigeria (AUN)