Wilson Visiting Fellow Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch Will be In-Residence
Wilson Visiting Fellow Ambassador Will be In-Residence Sept. 23-27
Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch will visit campus for five days this fall as the University's 2002 Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. An international relations expert with special interests in the areas of Asia and economic development, she has had extensive experience in civil service and the private sector.
Bloch will be visiting Susquehanna from September 23rd through 27th. She will deliver a keynote address on Wednesday, September 25th at 7:30 p.m. in the Degenstein Center Theater.
Susquehanna is one of about 55 colleges and universities participating in the Visiting Fellows Program of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation. The program promotes "greater contact, understanding and sharing of ideas and experiences between the academic community and the world of practical affairs." The Foundation invites distinguished public figures and scholars to spend a week on campus meeting formally and informally with students and members of the University community.
A native of China, Bloch who came to this country at the age of nine and grew up in San Francisco. She volunteered for the Peace Corps in 1964 in Malaysia and continued to work in civil service for the following 25 years. From 1989 to 1993, she was U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, the first Asian American to attain such rank in U.S. history.
For much of the 1990s, she headed Bank of America's Corporate Relations Department and the U.S.-Japan Foundation, a $100 million grant-making institution. Bloch presently holds positions at Peking University in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai and has recently been elected to the American Academy of Diplomacy, a private, non-profit, elected society that seeks to enhance American diplomacy and public awareness of its importance. Since October 2001 she has been ambassador-in-residence at the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs at the University of Maryland.
Past Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows at Susquehanna have included community activist and philanthropist Stephen G. Vetter, civil rights activist Judi Hampton and the late John Wallach, founder and president of Seeds of Peace, an internationally recognized conflict resolution program.
