December 17, 2008

Ambassador Somogyi Hosts Dinner in Honor of Professor Charles Gati

Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi hosted a dinner in honor of Professor Charles Gati and his wife, Toby Gati on Tuesday, December 16, at 7pm. Ambassador Somogyi, his wife, Andrea Bors Somogyi, and diplomats of the Hungarian Embassy's political section greeted Professor Gati and his wife at the Hungarian Residence.

 

Political Counselor András Bácsi-Nagy, Deputy Chief of Mission Zoltán Gábor, Toby Gati, wife of Professor Gati, Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi, Professor Charles Gati, Andrea Bors Somogyi, wife of Ambassador Somogyi,  Political Counselor Barbara Faragó Deák, Press Attaché Zoltán Fehér

Political Science Professor Charles Gati, who has worked at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Department of Johns Hopkins University and been research fellow at the university’s foreign policy institute since 2000, was one of the three recipients of the award of “2008 Certificate of Merit in Promoting Hungarian International Relations” (click here to read more). Mrs. Toby Gati is Senior International Adviser of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and she was Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research under President Bill Clinton.

 

Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi and Professor Charles Gati with the award
 

The award of the '2008 Certificate of Merit in Promoting Hungarian International Relations'

The guests of the evening included Zbigniew Brzezinski, Professor of American foreign policy at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former National Security Advisor of President Jimmy Carter; his wife, Mushka Brzezinski; their son, Mark Brzezinski, Partner at McGuireWoods LLP; his wife, Natalia Brzezinski; Heather Conley, Executive Director of the Office of the Chairman of the Board of the American Red Cross; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central and Northern Europe under President George W. Bush; Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University; Robert King, Staff Director of the U.S. House Foreign Relations Committee; Jim Langdon, Senior Partner of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Former Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush; his wife, Sandy Langdon; Stephen F. Szabo, Executive Director of the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; his wife, Joan Szabo; and Max Teleki, President of the Hungarian American Coalition;

 

Professors Zbigniew Brzezinski and Francis Fukuyama during a discussion
 

HAC President Max Teleki, Mark Brzezinski and Natalia Brzezinski
 

Mrs. Toby Gati, Robert King, Ms. Heather Conley, Charles Gati, Mrs. Sandy Langdon, Andrea Bors Somogyi, Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi
 

(from right to left) Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi, Jim Langdon, Andrea Bors Somogyi, and Bob King

The dinner was prepared and presented by Embassy Chef Lázár Kovács.