Martin Forums | 2024-2025

The Martin Institute presents: "The US and Venezuela," featuring Patrick Duddy, former US ambassador to Venezuela.

Join us 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 5 in the Horizon-Aurora Room on University of Idaho's campus in Moscow, Idaho. Free and open to the public.

This Martin Forum address is part of Duddy’s weeklong visit at U of I, during which he will also teach a short course on Inter-American Relations and visit with students, including those in international studies and business courses.

“We are excited to welcome Ambassador Duddy to the Palouse and to tap into his vast knowledge and experience as we explore the US’s relationship with Venezuela,” said Bill Smith, director of the Martin Institute.

Ambassador Patrick Duddy is a senior advisor on Global Affairs at Duke University. He also teaches in Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Before joining the Duke faculty, Ambassador Duddy served as a U.S. diplomat for nearly thirty years. At his retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service, he was one of the Department of State’s most senior Latin American specialists with exceptionally broad experience in trade, energy, public affairs and crisis management. From 2007 to 2010 he was the U.S. Ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for both President Bush and President Obama.