US Ambassador Briefing Series: Strategic Relations between the U.S. and New Zealand
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The Honorable David Huebner
US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa
US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa David Huebner will speak about the future of strategic relations between the United States and New Zealand.
Before being posted to New Zealand and Samoa, Ambassador Huebner was a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, where he headed the law firm's China Practice and International Disputes Practice. Based in Shanghai, he specialized in international arbitration and mediation and handled a wide range of matters across the Pacific Rim region.
Previously, the Ambassador was chairman of the international law firm Coudert Brothers and an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, where he taught courses in international business transactions, international arbitration, and international intellectual property. He has guest lectured on the same topics at other schools in the United States and China.
A native of Pennsylvania and long-time resident of California, Ambassador Huebner is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a graduate of the Yale Law School. While on leave of absence from Yale as a Henry Luce Scholar, he served in Tokyo as special assistant to the Hon. Kakizawa Koji, member of the lower house of Japan's Diet.
US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa David Huebner will speak about the future of strategic relations between the United States and New Zealand.
Before being posted to New Zealand and Samoa, Ambassador Huebner was a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, where he headed the law firm's China Practice and International Disputes Practice. Based in Shanghai, he specialized in international arbitration and mediation and handled a wide range of matters across the Pacific Rim region.
Previously, the Ambassador was chairman of the international law firm Coudert Brothers and an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, where he taught courses in international business transactions, international arbitration, and international intellectual property. He has guest lectured on the same topics at other schools in the United States and China.
A native of Pennsylvania and long-time resident of California, Ambassador Huebner is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a graduate of the Yale Law School. While on leave of absence from Yale as a Henry Luce Scholar, he served in Tokyo as special assistant to the Hon. Kakizawa Koji, member of the lower house of Japan's Diet.
Event Details
Wed 20 Oct 2010
Asia Society Washington, The Cinnabar Room, Whittemore House, 2nd Flr. 1526 New Hampshire Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 Washington, DC
Asia Society members: $15, Asia Society non-members: $20. Please RSVP to 202-833-ASIA by 12 pm on October 19th.