Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement Opening

February 8, 2018

Amy Gutmann, Penn President, joined Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell to open a new home for the University of Pennsylvania in Washington, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Vice President Biden and esteemed Penn alumna Andrea Mitchell had a wide-ranging discussion on current issues and geopolitical dynamics before the ribbon-cutting for the Center.

Penn students and our faculty come from all around the world, from every state in the United States of America, they come from all different religious backgrounds, all different ethnicities and races, all different ideological perspectives, but they want to understand one another and they are hungry for the kind of understanding, for the kind of educational diplomacy, and the kind of political diplomacy that this Center represents. Our nation’s need, the world’s need, is to understand the power of connectivity and the power of communicating across divides. I look forward to watching what grows here.