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"International Terrorism in the Post-‘911’ Era" Topic of Simmons College Warburg Lecture

BOSTON, MA. (Oct. 10, 2001)--The chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism will speak on the urgent and elusive nature of international terrorism on Wed., Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. at Simmons College in Boston.

Commission chairman L. Paul (Jerry) Bremer will speak on "International Terrorism in the Post-‘911’ Era" during the annual Warburg Lecture Series at Simmons. He will be joined by Louise Richardson, a renowned scholar in international terrorism and terrorist movements who is currently studying decision-making inside terrorist movements. Richardson is executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The lecture, free and open to the public, is in Room C-103 of the Main Campus Building of Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston. A question and answer period will follow.

Bremer was appointed chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism in Sept. 1999 with a mandate to review America’s counter-terrorism policies. The commission’s findings were reported to the President and Speaker of the House the following June.

In 1986, President Ronald Regan named Bremer the Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-Terrorism, responsible for developing and implementing America’s global policies to combat terrorism. He served as top advisor to the President and Secretary of State on terrorism for the next three years.

Since Oct. 2000 Bremer has been managing director and senior advisor for political and emerging risks for MMC (Marsh & McLennan Companies) Enterprise Risk, helping clients address business exposure to political and other evolving risks to business operations. Prior to his work at MMC, Bremer was managing director at Kissinger Associates, a strategic consulting firm headed by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Bremer joined Kissinger’s firm after a 23-year career in the diplomatic service. He was Ambassador to the Netherlands, Executive Secretary of the State Department, and Ambassador-at-large for Counter-Terrorism.

Richardson of the Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study is a political scientist and former Harvard professor who has taught on terrorism movements, international security, and international relations, among other topics. A scholar in the areas of international terrorism and terrorist movements, she is currently doing research on decision-making inside terrorist movements, and a comparative study of state responses to changes in the structural distribution of power in Europe.

The Warburg Lecture is named for Joan Warburg of Greenwich, Ct., a 1945 Simmons graduate who established the Warburg Chair in International Relations with her husband, James P. Warburg. The current Warburg Professor of International Relations and organizer of the lecture series is Ambassador Charles Dunbar, who was charge d’affaires of the American embassy in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation from 1981-83. For 21 years, he served as an American diplomat and Ambassador in the Middle East.

Simmons College is a nationally recognized small, private, predominantly women’s university in Boston. It was the first women’s college in the nation to provide both liberal arts and career preparation.