Soren Jessen Petersen Commencement Speaker at AUK graduation
Soren Jessen Peters, former Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN in Kosovo will be this year’s commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony of the class of 2010.
Mr. Petersen accepted gladly invitation to address the class of 2010 and in the letter he sent us in accepting our invitation he said that “I am delighted to accept the invitation to speak at the commencement. The students graduating from the American University of Kosovo represent the future of their countries and of Europe. As such, their achievements are a confirmation of everything I believe in and worked for during my time in Kosovo. I am honored to have a chance to spend this great day with the graduates, their families and the faculty.”
Soren Jessen-Petersen was the fifth of the six Special Representatives for Kosovo of the United Nations Secretary General (SRSG), during the nine years of UNMIK’s administration of the country. More perhaps than any other SRSG, Soren Jessen-Petersen is widely respected and admired in Kosovo for his two years of service from 2004 to 2006, and is known as a true friend of this country.
Mr. Jessen-Petersen currently divides his time between his native Denmark and Washington, DC. He teaches at Georgetown University and is a Guest Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace. AUK is delighted and honored to welcome him back to Kosovo as our 2010 Commencement Speaker.
