The December Salon will feature Dr. Amanda Sloat, a Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. She is also a fellow with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Dr. Sloat served in the U.S. government for nearly a decade. She was most recently Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs at the State Department, responsible for U.S. relations with Cyprus, Greece and Turkey and for coordinating European engagement on Middle East issues. She also served as senior advisor to the White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf region and as a senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. She previously worked as senior professional staff on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, with responsibility for European policy. This event costs $40 and includes dinner.