Ambassador Sichan Siv

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Answering the Call: Conversations with Practitioners

The Ready Room

11 episodes

4 months ago

Join members of The Ready Room at the Bush School of Government and Public Service as they interview leaders who chose to answer the call to public service. Our distinguished guests reflect on their lives and careers and discuss emerging national security and intelligence topics. We will explore why these men and women dedicated their livelihoods to serving their country, and why the next generation should follow in their footsteps. *The thoughts and ideas expressed in this podcast are not representative of Texas A&M, the Bush School, or the Intelligence Studies Program.

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Ambassador Sichan Siv

Answering the Call: Conversations with Practitioners

42 minutes

2 years ago

Ambassador Sichan Siv

Hear one man's incredible journey from escaping Cambodia's killing fields, to serving in the upper echelons of the U.S. government.

Ambassador Sichan Siv joins The Ready Room to tell his fascinating story. A self-described “bookworm, armchair traveler, and political spectator” during his youth in Cambodia, Sichan Siv's world was turned on its head in 1975 when Pol Pot's reign of terror began. Captured and forced to perform slave labor, Siv feared that he’d be worked to death or killed. He fled to Thailand at the behest of his mother, always remembering her advice to “never give up hope!” Beginning his new life in the United States, Siv worked his way into the White House as President George H.W. Bush's deputy assistant. From 2001 to 2006, he served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations Economic & Social Council. Sydney talks with Ambassador Siv to hear how he conquered seemingly insurmountable odds, to having such a prolific public service career.

Recorded March 2, 2023.