• TFED hosted a number of guest speakers over the past academic year, featuring internationally known diplomats, global leaders, and accomplished academics. Our affiliated UNC student organization, CFED, has expressed interest in inviting these and other guest speakers for the upcoming academic year : please stay tuned for details!

• Students working with TFED come from a variety of different institutions and walks of life. The summer KCL program has welcomed students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford, Vassar, Wesleyan, NC State University, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, and a variety of other universities abroad. TFED has also been eager to welcome multiple veterans to both our educational programming and the UNC Literature and Diplomacy Study Abroad. Here, we share some of their stories.

• If you are a student interested in the work of TFED, please feel free to contact us to learn about joining the UNC study abroad program at King’s College London, attending special guest lectures (primarily on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), or interning with TFED as we work to expand our academic programming and build funding for transatlantic travel scholarships.

With enormous sadness, we share the news that Sir Christopher Meyer passed away in Megève, France, on Wednesday, July 27th, 2022. He will be missed beyond words by his beloved spouse, Catherine, Baroness Meyer, and by his wider network of family, friends, and scores of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students who had the pleasure of meeting him through our Empire and Diplomacy courses offered at UNC and in partnership with King's College London.

Sir Christopher treasured his close friendships with UNC faculty, students, and the wider UNC community. He recalled with great fondness festive gatherings with supporters of UNC -- including Joan Heckler Gillings, Betty Kenan, and Tom Kenan -- and numerous speaking events where he engaged with UNC faculty and students through his long association with Honors Carolina, the Department of English, and Comparative Literature, the Peace, War, and Defense curriculum, the UNC School of Law, and, most recently, with projects planned in partnership with UNC Global for the coming academic year. He treasured these relationships, which flowered in Chapel Hill and in London and which, in his own words, gave “real substance to the notion of the transatlantic community built on shared values.”

Sir Christopher was an active board member of the Transatlantic Forum for Education and Diplomacy. In 2010 Sir Christopher was named the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina. “SirSocks” will be remembered for his wit and wisdom and his inexhaustible devotion to the cause of strengthening the transatlantic relationship.

Sir Christopher: We will miss you!

TFED is proud to announce three new additions to the TFED Executive Board: The Earl of Effingham; Catherine Meyer, The Baroness Meyer CBE; and Ambassador W. Robert Pearson.

• A Marshall Scholar is: an American who receives financial support to study for a graduate degree at a university in the United Kingdom in order to encourage personal and intellectual growth and foster the special diplomatic relationship between the UK and US.

• 2024 Marshall Scholars:

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