NAFUSA President Terry Flynn announced that FBI Director and NAFUSA life member Chris Wray will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 NAFUSA Annual Conference. The meeting will be held at the Westin St Francis in San Francisco, on September 25-27. Director Wray will speak at the closing dinner on Friday, September 27. Registration will begin in June.

Chris Wray is serving as the eighth and current Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 2017. From 2003 to 2005 he served as the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division in the George W. Bush Administration. From 2005 until 2017, Wray was a litigation partner at King & Spalding. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was the Executive Director of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He joined the Justice Department in 1997 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2001, he moved to Main Justice as the Associate Deputy Attorney General and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General.

Click here to read the remarks of NAFUSA’s last keynote speaker, Senator Doug Jones in Nashville in 2018: Doug Jones NAFUSA remarks 2018. NAFUSA member and former board member and officer, Doug would have been NAFUSA’s president in 2018 if he had not stepped down to run for the Senate. His remarks stressed the importance of reaching across the aisle and bi-partisanship.