SOLD OUT: Members-Only Roundtable with UNHCR’s Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements

October 21st, 2024 5:00PM -6:30PM

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The World Affairs Council is pleased to invite its members to a small off-the-record roundtable with United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Kelly Clements on Monday, October 21 from 5:00-6:30 pm. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is responsible for providing international protection and humanitarian assistance and seeking permanent solutions for refugees and people forcibly displaced. With more than 120 million people forcibly displaced around the world today—the largest number in history—this is a unique and timely opportunity for dialogue on the global refugee crisis, displacement trends, and the challenges faced in providing assistance and advocacy for people forced to flee. 

The program is only open to members of the World Affairs Council. Seating is limited. Please indicate your interest in attending as soon as possible.  Registration details will be sent to confirmed participants.  

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About Our Speaker

Kelly T. Clements joined UNHCR as Deputy High Commissioner on 6 July 2015. Clements has been closely involved with refugee and displacement issues throughout her three decade career.

Before joining UNHCR, Clements was a member of the Senior Executive Service, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) where she was responsible for humanitarian issues in Asia and the Middle East and global policy and budget. In 2014, she was Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

From 1993 to 1996, Clements served at the U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on a Foreign Service appointment. She was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs in 1997-1998. Clements served as a Senior Emergency Officer for Europe, the Newly Independent States, and the Americas, and later as Balkans Assistance Coordinator; she was deployed to Albania in 1999. She worked for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Bangladesh in 1992.

Clements holds a B.A. in International Studies and an M.A. in Urban Affairs from Virginia Tech.

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When: October 21st, 2024 5:00PM -6:30PM

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