Global Strategy Institute Anniversary Conference
FUTURE BOUND: The United States in a World of Change
Overview
The CSIS Global Strategy Institute hosted our fourth anniversary conference to assess the changing international landscape within which the United States will navigate in the future. Together we highlighted areas critical to U.S. engagement—level of competitiveness, workforce trends, state of physical infrastructure, promotion of innovation, investment in science and technology, role of government—and generated recommendations on future policy priorities.
Although this conference takes place in the context of the continuing presidential election debate, we sincerely hope that our discussion will transcend the issues that dominate the headlines and focus instead on the various longer-range forces at work around us.
AGENDA
9:00am-9:15am
Opening Remarks
John Hamre, President and CEO, CSIS
9:15am-10:00am
Strategic Vision Award*
David Walker, President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
10:15am-11:15am
Panel 1-The Future of Critical Infrastructure
Major General Don Riley, Deputy Chief of Engineers and Deputy Commanding
General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Jeff Gaynor, Advocate, Resilience Imperative
Moderator: Jay Farrar, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, CH2M HILL
11:15am-12:00pm
Keynote
Thomas Hunter, Director, Sandia National Labratories
12:30pm-1:30pm
Panel 2-The Future of Higher Education
Terrell Halaska, Partner, HCM Strategists, LLC
Anthony “Bud” Rock, Vice President for Global Engagement, Arizona State University
Moderator: George Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
1:45pm-2:30pm
Keynote
Erik Peterson, Senior Vice President, CSIS
2:30pm-3:30pm
Panel 3 - America's Role in the World
Robert Boege, Executive Director, The Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America
Chad Evans, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, The Council on Competitiveness
Moderator: Linda Jamison, Dean and Senior Fellow, CSIS Abshire-Inamori
Leadership Academy
3:30 - 3:45
Closing Remarks
Strategic Vision Award:
We honored David Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer of the newly established Peter G. Peterson Foundation, by presenting him with the 2008 Strategic Vision Award for his creative and dedicated service as Comptroller General of the United States.
