Metropolitan Breakfast Club
presents

Select Dinner Speaker Series

Thursday, June 24
6:30 - 9:00 P.M.



Ambassador Lewis Lucke
The Haiti Earthquake:
US Response

Location:

Visit website.
98 San Jacinto Blvd.
www.shorelinegrill.com


Cost: $45 per person for meal; cash bar.
Bring your significant other for great food/wine and stimulating discussion.
(Free parking in Brazos Street parking garage)

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Please join your fellow MBC members for the next program in the MBC dinner series: Interest-ing Speakers for Interesting People. The format allows more time for members to get to know each other in a conversational setting and have deeper discussions with top-notch speakers on topics that are relevant to all of us.

Ambassador Lewis Lucke most recently served as US Response Coordinator for the Haiti earth-quake, leading the United States’ relief and recovery program.

Ambassador Lucke has been a career senior Foreign Service Officer who served for 27 years with the U.S. Agency for International Development. His prior position was that of first USAID Mission Director for Iraq, where he managed a $4.0 billion reconstruction and economic devel-opment program. He received USAID’s two highest awards: the Administrator’s Distinguished Career Award in 2001, and the Agency’s award for Heroism in 2004.

Ambassador Lucke has recently returned to his international consulting business, brokering US investment into developing countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Mr. Lucke lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Joy Willeford. Mr. Lucke received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. He is the author of “Waiting for Rain: Life and Development in Mali, West Africa” published in 1999.

Dress code for men: coat and tie.

Seating is limited and on a first come basis.

RSVP by June 18 to: cag@verfidy.com