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Vision and Foresight in Government Decision-Making

July 30, 2010 • 12:30 – 5:30 pm EDT

Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) Vision Working Group Book Launch

Vision and Foresight in Government Decision-Making: Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) Vision Working Group Book Launch

Friday, July 30, 2010
8:30am-1:30pm

Future scenarios are a time-tested tool to prepare for emerging challenges and to improve decision-making. Please join PNSR's Vision Working Group and CSIS at the launching of a new book, which explores the role of foresight and visioning in government decision-making, and proposes a Center for Strategic Analysis and Assessment within the Executive Office of the President. Copies of the book entitled "Project on National Security Reform Vision Working Group Report and Scenarios" will be distributed at the event.

8:30am-9:00am

Registration and Coffee

9:00am-9:10am

Introduction and Welcome
Sheila Ronis
Director, MBA/Management Programs, Walsh College

9:10am-9:30am

The Project on National Security Reform
Jim Locher
President and CEO, Project on National Security Reform

9:30am-10:15am

The Vision Working Group Report: The Need to Establish The Center for Strategic Analysis and Assessment
Sheila Ronis
Director, MBA/Management Programs, Walsh College

10:15am-10:30am

Break

10:30am-12:00pm

Panel Discussion: Why Anticipatory Governance and a Center for Strategic Analysis and Assessment Are Needed
Sheila Ronis, Facilitator
Director, MBA/Management Programs, Walsh College


Leon Fuerth, Forward Engagement
Research Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Al Gore

Panelists:

Clem Bezold
Chairman, Institute for Alternative Futures

Moana Erickson
Consultant, Millennium Project and Former Executive Director, CSIS Governance Program

Warren Fishbein
Coordinator, Global Futures Forum, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State

Erik Kjonnerod
Director, Center for Applied Strategic Learning, National Defense University

Tim Mack
President, World Future Society

Jonathan Peck
President, Institute for Alternative Futures

12:00pm-1:20pm

Lunch

The Next Steps: Uniting Foresight and Policy in Governance
Leon Fuerth
Research Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Al Gore

1:20pm-1:30pm

Concluding Remarks
Sheila Ronis
Director, MBA/Management Programs, Walsh College

 

Hosted by
David J. Berteau
Director, Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Register to Attend

CSIS, B1 Conference Center
1800 K Street, NW
Washington DC, 20006

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