We would like to warmly invite you to this week’s NCRE Public Seminar Series:
Speaker: Peter Ryan, Ambassador of Ireland
Title: The EU – responding to the challenges of 2022
Date: 27 May 2022
Time: 2 – 3pm
Location: Logie 613, University of Canterbury / Zoom
Seminar Protocols: We require all attendees to sign the manual register that will be at the entrance of Logie 613 for audit purposes
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If you are unable to attend the Diplomatic Seminar, you are encouraged to follow it live on your computer via our live stream.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/99948641427
Meeting ID: 999 4864 1427
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Biography:
The ambassadors diplomatic career began in 1994-1997 when he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Anglo-Irish Division as a Third Secretary. Peter served with the International Fund for Ireland, of which New Zealand is a member, to support the promotion of reconciliation on the island of Ireland.
Peter’s first posting was to the Embassy of Ireland in Tokyo, Japan (1997-2000), he then moved to Seoul, Korea where he served as Deputy Head of Mission from 2000-02, before returning to the Bilateral Economic Relations Division (2002-2004) in Dublin.
In 2004, Peter was seconded to the Embassy of Ireland, Singapore by the Department of Communications with a regional remit before being appointed on secondment to the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore where he served as Director of Intellectual Exchange from 2006-2009. During this time, he led the Human Rights, Environment, EU Through the Eyes of Asia and other Asia and Europe-wide programmes as well as initiating the first Asia-Europe Pandemic Response Project.
Peter served at HQ in the Political Division between 2009-2011, as Deputy Consul General, New York from 2011-2014 and more recently as Consul General, Hong Kong 2014 – August 2018.
Peter has served as Ireland’s first resident Ambassador to New Zealand since August 2018. He presented his credentials as Ambassador of Ireland to Samoa in October 2019.
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Q & A
Please send us any questions you may have related to the topic: The EU – responding to the challenges of 2022. ncre@canterbury.ac.nz
Q&A will be a major part of this week’s event.
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We look forward to seeing you all there.
Kind Regards,
NCRE
