*Due to filming of this lecture we will be closing the doors at 5:30 pm, so be sure to 
arrive on time.  

Global Security Lecture:  Countering Violent Extremism in Syria and Beyond
Samar S. Ali
Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, 5:30 pm* - Toyota Auditorium

Samar S. Ali is a Nashville attorney with Bone McAllester Norton PLLC, where she 
concentrates her practice on cross-border transactions, international law and private 
diplomacy. Ali also served as assistant commissioner for International Affairs for Gov. Bill 
Haslam and was a White House Fellow, where, she served as an adviser on the senior 
staff of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Immediately following her 
fellowship, she worked as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security in 
Washington, DC and in Doha, Qatar. From 2007 to 2010, Samar was an associate with 
Hogan Lovells US LLP; she worked in Washington, DC and the United Arab Emirates and 
established that firm’s office in Abu Dhabi. Samar is also an adjunct professor at 
Vanderbilt University, where she teaches courses in international relations. She received 
her BS in political science with honors from Vanderbilt and was the school’s first Arab-
American elected as Student Body President. She graduated with her JD from Vanderbilt 
University Law School. 

Free & Open to the Public!