SUMMIT AREA –On Tuesday, March 3, Steve Bondy, the recently retired US Ambassador to Bahrain, will speak about the role of the Foreign Service in advancing US policies internationally. He will describe his 34-year career with the State Department as a Middle East specialist. Bondy will discuss conflicts and trends that are strategic to the interests of the United States in the region. Among his other achievements, Bondy led 6,000 employees and contractors at the U.S. Embassy inAfghanistan; worked to reconcile armed militias fighting U.S. and local forces in Iraq; assisted Jordan and Israel to negotiate their 1994 peace agreement; created the 2023 U.S.-Bahrain Comprehensive Security Integration and Prosperity Agreement; and confronted Iranian interference and aggression throughout the region.