Former Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., who is serving at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute this spring as a visiting distinguished professor of public policy, recently became a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and announced the formation of his own Washington-based Lugar Center on global issues.

On Tuesday, Lugar delivered the Georgetown Public Policy Institute’s Whittington Lecture.

Earlier this year, Lugar and University of Indianapolis President Robert Manuel announced the creation of the Richard G. Lugar Academy, a Washington, D.C.-based internship program. Manuel previously served as Georgetown’s associate provost and dean of the School of Continuing Studies.

The Lugar Center aims to become a prominent voice on issues that framed much of Lugar’s career: nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, global food security, foreign assistance effectiveness and global development, energy security and enhancing bipartisan governance. The center’s goal is to bring together expert sources and sponsor research to improve the quality of debate and bridge ideological divides around these issues.

Lugar, a former Rhodes scholar and mayor of Indianapolis, was the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he left the Senate, and was a member and former chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. When his 36-year tenure in Congress ended, he was the longest serving member from Indiana in history. Lugar was defeated in a primary early in 2012.

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