U.S. Secretary of Defense Hagel to Keynote CSIS Global Security Forum 2013

WASHINGTON, November 4, 2013– The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) will host the 4th annual Global Security Forum to discuss the challenges facing U.S. and global security today. The forum will feature a keynote address by U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles T. “Chuck” Hagel as well as discussions on cybersecurity, the future of U.S. Defense and National Security, and potential areas of global conflict.  Full details appear below.

WHEN/WHERE:
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
CSIS 1616 Rhode Island NW, Washington, DC 20036

Credentialed members of the press who would like to attend must RSVP to aschwartz@csis.org

***The final plenary session "A Simulated Crisis in East Asia" is not for attribution and electronic recording is not permitted***

AGENDA
Registration and Continental Breakfast: 7:00-8:00 a.m.
Opening Session: 8:15-9:00 a.m.
Keynote Address

The Honorable Charles T. "Chuck" Hagel
United States Secretary of Defense
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Morning Sessions: 9:30-10:45 a.m.

I. Can the United States Rebuild a National Security Consensus?  

David Ignatius
Columnist, The Washington Post

Mitchell Reiss
President, Washington College and
Senior Associate, CSIS International Security Program

Julianne Smith
Former Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President

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

II. Finding a Surveillance Consensus Post Snowden?

Darren Dick
Staff Director, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

David Grannis
Staff Director, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program, CSIS

Moderator:
Ellen Nakashima
National Security Reporter, The Washington Post

III. Has The Budget Crisis Shattered The Cold War Consensus On Defense Budgets?

Steven Cortese
Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Jim Dyer
Former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations 

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

Gregory R. Dahlberg (invited)
Former Staff Director, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense 

David Morrison (invited)
Former Staff Director, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense 

Moderator:
David J. Berteau
Senior Vice President and Director, National Security Program on Industry and Resources, CSIS

IV. U.S.-China Economic Relations V.2.0?

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy
Distinguished Scholar, Wilson Center, and former U.S. Ambassador to China

Charles W. Freeman III
Vice President, Rock Creek Global Advisors LLC

Christopher K. Johnson
Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Scott Miller
Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business, CSIS

Moderator:
Matthew P. Goodman
William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, CSIS
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Midday Plenary Session: 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

Geopolitical Implications of a Reconnecting Eurasia

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former National Security Advisor; CSIS Counselor and Trustee

Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft (ret.)
Former National Security Advisor; CSIS Counselor and Trustee

Christopher K. Johnson
Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS  

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

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

Moderator:
John J. Hamre
CSIS President, CEO, and Pritzker Chair
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Afternoon Sessions: 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

I. What Battlefield Lessons Have We Learned From Twelve Years of War?

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

Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman (ret.)
Former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force

Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli (ret.)
Former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army 

Moderator:
Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies
and Ground Forces Dialogue, CSIS

II. Can a U.S.-Iran Deal Work?

Robert Einhorn
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, and former Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, U.S. Department of State

Haleh Esfandiari
Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Al Hunt
Host, Political Capital with Al Hunt, Bloomberg Television,
and Columnist, Bloomberg View 

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

III. New Energy, New Geopolitics?

Ivan Sandrea
Senior Partner, Ernst and Young London

Peter Tertzakian
Chief Energy Economist & Managing Director, ARC Financial Corp

J. Robinson West
Senior Advisor, IHS-Energy Insight
and Senior Adviser, CSIS Energy and National Security Program

Moderators:
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Co-Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

David Pumphrey
Co-Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

IV. What Role Should Financial Power Play in National Security?

Ambassador Robert Kimmitt 
Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Ambassador to Germany

David F. Gordon
Head of Research, Eurasia Group,
and former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State

Daniel Glaser
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes

Moderator:
Juan Zarate
Senior Adviser, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS
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Closing Plenary Session: 3:00-5:00 p.m.

***The final plenary session "A Simulated Crisis in East Asia" is not for attribution and electronic recording is not permitted***

A Simulated Crisis in East Asia

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

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

William J. Lynn III
Chairman and CEO, DRS Technologies, Inc.,
and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

ADM Patrick M. Walsh (ret.)
Former Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet

Ambassador Kathleen Stephens
Koret Fellow, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University,
and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

Jim Shinn
CEO, Teneo Intelligence; Lecturer, Princeton University,
and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia 

Moderators:
Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS

Christopher K. Johnson
Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

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