The Channel City Club is proud to bring Ambassador Ryan Crocker to Santa Barbara for the first time. “Middle East Breakdown: Causes and Consequences”, will focus on issues pertaining to the Middle East and the cause and effects of the United States’ engagement in the region.
Ambassador Ryan Crocker is a Career Ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has served as United States Ambassador to Afghanistan and as United States Ambassador to Iraq . Prior to those appointments, he was the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and to Lebanon. Ryan Crocker currently is a Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, for the academic year 2017-2018.