Global Security Forum 2014

WASHINGTON, November 7, 2014- The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will host the fifth annual Global Security Forum to address challenges facing the United States and global security. The keynote address will be given by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work. Discussion topics will include military innovation and defense policies, growing tensions in Asia, the U.S. response to Ebola, and the lasting impacts of Afghanistan and Iraq. Full details appear below.
 
WHEN/WHERE:
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Second Floor Conference Room
CSIS, 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

 
Credentialed members of the press who wish to attend should email aschwartz@csis.org or click below.

REGISTER

AGENDA
Registration and Continental Breakfast: 7:00–8:00 a.m.
Opening Session: 8:00–9:00 a.m.


Keynote address by
The Honorable Robert O. Work
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

Morning Breakout Sessions I: 9:30–10:45 a.m.
I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer
Principal, Podesta Group,
and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations


Charles J. Houy
Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth
Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:
Clark A. Murdock
Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group
and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS


II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International,
and former Deputy Secretary of State


Kurt Campbell
Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,
and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs


Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:
Mira Rapp Hooper
Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:
Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,
and Associate Professor, Georgetown University


III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry
Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

LTG Terry A. Wolff (ret.)
Director, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies,
National Defense University, and former Director of Strategic Plans and
Policy (J-5), Joint Chiefs of Staff


Moderator:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair,
and Director, International Security Program, CSIS


IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Babak Ali Naraghi
Head of Project, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone
Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:
Talia Dubovi
Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

Morning Breakout Sessions II: 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III
CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,
and former Deputy Secretary of Defense


Robert J. Stevens
Executive Chairman, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones
Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors,
and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS


Moderator:
Andrew P. Hunter
Director, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group,
and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS


II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)
Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE,
and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command


Colin H. Kahl
Deputy Assistant to the President
and National Security Adviser to the Vice President


Moderator:
Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.
Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation,
Office of the Secretary of Defense


Moderator:
Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu
Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Moderator:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

Lunch: 12:15–12:45 p.m.
Mid-Day Plenary Session: 12:45–1:45 p.m
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Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jake Sullivan
Oscar M. Reubhausen Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in National Security, Yale Law School, former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State,
and former National Security Adviser to the Vice President


Kori Schake
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution,
and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign


David E. Sanger
Chief Washington Correspondent, New York Times

Moderator:
Bob Schieffer
Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News,
and Anchor, "Face the Nation"

Closing Plenary Session: 2:00–3:30 p.m.

A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International,
and former Deputy Secretary of State


Michèle Flournoy
Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security,
and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy


General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS,
and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff


John E. McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg
Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University,
and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis
Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS,
and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten
Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors,
and former White House Chief of Staff


Moderators:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair,
and Director, International Security Program, CSIS


Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic,
and Director, Europe Program, CSIS


*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:
Frank A. Verrastro
Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate
Senior Adviser, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS
 
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