Fall Conference 2022 Keynote Address: Ambassador William B. Taylor

The theme of this year's Fall Conference was "The New Cold War." On October 27, Ambassador William B. Taylor gave the keynote address on "Russia, Ukraine, and the United States" in the William T. Young Library Auditorium. A great variety of campus members attended the address.

Taylor is vice president of the Russia and Europe section at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and as acting ambassador to Ukraine from June 2019 to January 2022 under President Donald Trump.