Please join us on Friday, July 12, 2019, for a telephonic press briefing with Sam Brownback, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Ambassador Brownback will preview the 2019 Ministerial for the Advancement of Religious Freedom. He will take questions from participating journalists.
The briefing is on-the-record and will be conducted in English. Dial-in info will be provided upon RSVP.
BIO:
Sam Brownback was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom for the Department of State on February 1, 2018. Prior to this appointment, he served as Governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. Previously he served as a U.S. Senator from 1996 to 2011 and a U.S. Representative in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1996 from Kansas. While a member of the Senate, he worked actively on the issue of religious freedom in multiple countries and was a key sponsor of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
Ambassador Brownback’s full bio can be found here.
LOGISTICS:
• Callers should dial in to the conference call 10 minutes early.
• The operator will ask for your name, press affiliation, and location.
• Ambassador Brownback will give brief opening remarks, and then the moderator will open the floor to questions.
• Participants will be instructed to push the “*” and “1” buttons on their phones to enter the question queue. You may also submit questions in advance via email to paimestaff@state.gov.
• If you experience technical difficulties during the call, you may email paimestaff@state.gov to alert the moderator to any issues.
