Georgetown Club Portugal organises annual event with support from PLMJ

The Georgetown Club Portugal is holding its annual event for alumni, friends and people interested in studying or researching at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and the event will take place in the PLMJ Auditorium in Lisbon on 21 September. The aim of this get-together is to build relationships between Portuguese people who have studied at the university, to discuss current topics, to allow lecturers and students to meet up, and to provide future candidates with an idea of the ethos of the university and what it has to offer.

This year, the event will be attended by Kim Sawyer, the wife of the US Ambassador to Lisbon, and the driving force behind Connect to Success, a flagship initiative launched in 2014 to support women in the business world. The Georgetown Club Portugal was founded in 2011 by Paula Redondo Pereira (Georgetown LLM ’09), who will also attend the event this year, as she has done in previous years. The Club's objective is to bring Hoyas (Georgetown alumni) together, and it has around 40 members from a wide variety of professional backgrounds. They include José Manuel Durão Barroso (former president of the European Commission), Luís Amado (former Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs) and João Carlos Espada (Director of the Institute of Political Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa).

The event is being supported by PLMJ.