Music & Taste on the Harbour returns for the fall season! Two featured Shelter Cove Harbour restaurants will set up as usual around Neptune and will offer a variety of...
Ambassador (ret.) Marie L. Yovanovitch is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine for three years, from 2016 to 2019. Her memoir, Lessons from the Edge, documents how she was abruptly recalled from Ukraine by the Trump administration in April 2019 and subsequently testified in the first impeachment of President Trump in November 2019.
She previously served as Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011) and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008). From 2012-2013, Ambassador Yovanovitch was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she was responsible for policy on European and global security issues. She also served as the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2004-2005. She retired from the Department of State as a Career Minister in January 2020.
Ambassador Yovanovitch served as the Dean of the Language School at the Foreign Service Institute, as well as International Advisor and Deputy Commandant at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University, where she also taught national security strategy. She began her career in Ottawa, followed by overseas assignments in Moscow, London and Mogadishu, and at the Department of State as Deputy Director of the Russian Desk.
A graduate of Princeton University with a master’s degree from the National Defense University, Ambassador Yovanovitch received numerous Presidential and State Department awards, including the Secretary’s Diplomacy in Human Rights Award.
Party in the Park: October 7th, 4:30-8:00pm
Lowcountry Celebration Park, Hilton Head Island
Join us for a kickoff happy hour cookout. Food, drinks, & live entertainment! VIP tables available.
Main Event: October 8th, 11am-3:30pm
Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island
This year the Saturday main event is combined with the Kiwani's Chili Cook-off so bring your Jeep, a bunch of friends and your appetite for chili, football on the big screen, live entertainment, and much more.
Party in the Park: October 7th, 4:30-8:00pm
Lowcountry Celebration Park, Hilton Head Island
Join us for a kickoff happy hour cookout. Food, drinks, & live entertainment! VIP tables available.
Main Event: October 8th, 11am-3:30pm
Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island
This year the Saturday main event is combined with the Kiwani's Chili Cook-off so bring your Jeep, a bunch of friends and your appetite for chili, football on the big screen, live entertainment, and much more.
Music & Taste on the Harbour returns for the fall season! Two featured Shelter Cove Harbour restaurants will set up as usual around Neptune and will offer a variety of...
Music & Taste on the Harbour returns for the fall season! Two featured Shelter Cove Harbour restaurants will set up as usual around Neptune and will offer a variety of...
Kent Harrington, President of Harrington Group, LLC, has more than 40 years of experience on trade, economic, defense, and foreign policy issues as a specialist on intelligence analysis and Asia. He has provided political-economic assessments and strategic counsel on government relations to leading companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
At the Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Harrington led the intelligence community’s collection and research on international economic, foreign policy and national security issues, including serving four Directors of Central Intelligence as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia. He has worked with leaders around the world in several assignments, including as CIA chief of station in Tokyo, and served as CIA’s Director of Public Affairs, playing a major role in providing greater public access to intelligence and in crisis management.
Sergei Medvedev is Professor, Moscow Free University; Affiliate Professor, Charles University, Prague; and Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Previously he was a professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He has worked at the Marshall Center for Security Studies in Germany, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Helsinki), the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Ebenhausen), the Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome) and the Institute of Europe (Moscow).
TEDxHiltonHead is a locally-organized, TED-licensed community event focused on "Ideas Worth Spreading" and "Arts Worth Exploring".
Join us for an evening of
Something for everyone! One of Hilton Head's most significant and longstanding festivals is back for another year. Enjoy seafood (and non-seafood options), music, drinks, art, and more. Our family-friendly event is sure to put a smile on everyone's face.
