African Development Center

The African Development Center of Minnesota was privileged to feature the new Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at this month’s ADC Business Breakfast Roundtable discussion.

During the event, Dean Schwartz touched on his past work, experiences, and perspective from his time in senior public service positions of the U.S. State Department, as well as his new mission as the Dean of the Humphrey School.

Guests were eager to discuss all of these topics, but seemed especially intrigued with his thoughts on immigrants and refugees in the state, as well as what he has learned from his recent travels to the Horn of Africa.

Here are some still photos from the morning:

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Eric P. Schwartz has twenty-five years of senior public service experience at the State Department, the National Security Council, the United Nations and the U.S. Congress, as well as in the foundation and NGO communities. He holds a juris doctorate from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar, and a master of public and international affairs degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He earned a bachelor of arts degree with honors at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Schwartz served for many years as a visiting lecturer of public and international affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and was the school’s first practitioner-in-residence. While at Princeton, he taught graduate and undergraduate seminars and workshops dealing with the United Nations, democracy promotion, peace operations, international humanitarian assistance, and recovery and reconstruction after disasters. In addition, he was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His academic and research experience has complemented his leadership as a policy practitioner focusing on international humanitarian affairs, human rights, international organizations and peacekeeping.