Teresita C. Schaffer, a former ambassador to Sri Lanka and director of the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, will be delivering lectures on U.S.-India relations at Emory University and the Metro Atlanta Chamber on Thursday, Oct. 29.

Ms. Schaffer also will be available to sign her recently published book “India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership.”

The Emory lecture is part of the Halle Speaker Series and is to be held at White Hall, Room 206, from 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. To attend the lecture, call Evan Goldberg at (404) 727-4060 or send him an email at evan.goldberg@emory.edu.

Ms. Schaffer is scheduled to attend a reception and dinner at the Metro Chamber from 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The cost of the chamber event is $60 and a reduced price of $50 for students and academics. Go to GlobalAtlanta's Calendar of International Events to register for the chamber event.

Ms. Schaffer has worked in international relations throughout her career.  Most recently she joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies in August 1998 after a 30-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service.

She devoted most of her career to international economic issues and to South Asia, on which she was one of the State Department's principal experts.

From 1989 to 1992, she served as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, at that time the senior South Asia position in the department; from 1992 to 1995, she was the U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka; and from 1995 to 1997, she served as director of the Foreign Service Institute.

Her earlier posts included Tel Aviv, Israel; Islamabad, Pakistan; New Delhi, India, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, as well as a tour as director of the Office of International Trade in the State Department. She spent a year as a consultant on business issues relating to South Asia after retiring from the Foreign Service.

Her publications include "Sri Lanka: Lessons from the 1995 Negotiations," in Creating Peace in Sri Lanka (Brookings, 1998); two studies on women in Bangladesh; and "Kashmir: Fifty Years of Running in Place," in Grasping the Nettle (USIP, 2004).

Her CSIS publications include India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership (2009); Kashmir: The Economics of Peace Building (2005), Pakistan's Future and U.S. Policy Options (2004), Rising India and U.S. Policy Options in Asia (2002), and several reports on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India.

Ms. Schaffer has taught at Georgetown University and American University. She speaks French, Swedish, German, Italian, Hebrew, Hindi, and Urdu, and has studied Bangla and Sinhala.

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