Presented By: International Institute
II Career Event. Government, Business, and Human Rights: What are the Stakes?
Lieutenant Colonel Eldridge R. Singleton, Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché, Department of Defense
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Lieutenant Colonel Singleton will discuss his career path from Second Lieutenant Infantry Officer to Foreign Area Officer and now Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché. He will address the role of government engagement with business in addressing human rights issues. LTC Singleton will make the (business) case for adopting internationally recognized best practices in preventing and eliminating child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking in global supply chains by discussing witting or unwitting complicity in transnational organized crime (TOC), and the impact of human flows on countries near centers of human rights issues.
The lunch talk will followed by Q&A with students interested in serving as Foreign Area Officers. Food will be provided. This event is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education and co-organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
About the speaker:
Lieutenant Colonel Eldridge R. Singleton was awarded both his Bachelors of Science degree and commission in the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant Infantry Officer by the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 2000. He also holds a Masters of Arts degree in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University and an Associate of Arts degree in Brazilian Portuguese from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, California.
Lieutenant Colonel Singleton served as the U.S. Army Attaché to Bolivia until 2015 to 2017, Acting Defense Attaché to Jamaica in 2016, and Operations Officer and Army Section Chief for the Security Cooperation Office of the Embassy of the United States of America in Port-au-Prince, Haiti from 2013 to 2015. He also served in many command and staff positions in the United States, the Middle East, and Latin America, including combat operations in the Global War on Terrorism. After multiple combat tours, he trained over the course of four years to transition to a career as a multilingual US Army Foreign Area Officer.
Both the Departments of State and Defense have recognized Lieutenant Colonel Singleton’s work in combat and foreign relations. These include four Bronze Star Medals for heroic service in combat, a Defense Meritorious Service Medal for interagency service overseas, an Army Commendation Medal with “V” device for valor in combat, and the Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award.
Lieutenant Colonel Singleton will discuss his career path from Second Lieutenant Infantry Officer to Foreign Area Officer and now Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché. He will address the role of government engagement with business in addressing human rights issues. LTC Singleton will make the (business) case for adopting internationally recognized best practices in preventing and eliminating child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking in global supply chains by discussing witting or unwitting complicity in transnational organized crime (TOC), and the impact of human flows on countries near centers of human rights issues.
The lunch talk will followed by Q&A with students interested in serving as Foreign Area Officers. Food will be provided. This event is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education and co-organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
About the speaker:
Lieutenant Colonel Eldridge R. Singleton was awarded both his Bachelors of Science degree and commission in the U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant Infantry Officer by the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 2000. He also holds a Masters of Arts degree in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University and an Associate of Arts degree in Brazilian Portuguese from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, California.
Lieutenant Colonel Singleton served as the U.S. Army Attaché to Bolivia until 2015 to 2017, Acting Defense Attaché to Jamaica in 2016, and Operations Officer and Army Section Chief for the Security Cooperation Office of the Embassy of the United States of America in Port-au-Prince, Haiti from 2013 to 2015. He also served in many command and staff positions in the United States, the Middle East, and Latin America, including combat operations in the Global War on Terrorism. After multiple combat tours, he trained over the course of four years to transition to a career as a multilingual US Army Foreign Area Officer.
Both the Departments of State and Defense have recognized Lieutenant Colonel Singleton’s work in combat and foreign relations. These include four Bronze Star Medals for heroic service in combat, a Defense Meritorious Service Medal for interagency service overseas, an Army Commendation Medal with “V” device for valor in combat, and the Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award.
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