Speaker: Fran Ulmer, Arctic Initiative Senior Fellow, Harvard’s Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government
Fran Ulmer has spent over 45 years in public service. She chaired the U.S. Arctic Research Commission after being appointed by President Obama in 2011 until 2020. Ulmer is a Senior Fellow of the Arctic Initiative in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. She served as a Special Advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry on Arctic Science and Policy from 2014 to 2017. In 2010, President Obama appointed her to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. From 2007 to 2011, Ulmer was chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is a member of the Global Board of the Nature Conservancy and on the Board of the National Parks Conservation Association. Ulmer, who earned a J.D. cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School, served as an elected official in Alaska for 18 years as the mayor of Juneau, a state representative and as lieutenant governor.
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