Smart Women, Smart Power
SWSP is creating space for women in one of the most powerful decision-making spaces in the world: national security and foreign affairs
The Smart Women, Smart Power (SWSP) Initiative has a simple starting point: people are policy. We are committed to creating a platform for respectful and inclusive discussion of the many ways in which women influence and impact the international security, foreign policy and business agendas. The Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative launched in December 2014.
Contact Information
- Alexis Day
- Associate Director, Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative
- aday@csis.org
Featured Event
Solving the World’s Hardest Problems with Mellody Hobson: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
Featured Analysis

Photo: K. Kassens/U.S. Army via DVIDS
Women: Mission Essential Personnel
Commentary by Kathleen McInnis — November 18, 2024

Photo: iLab/CSIS
Countering China and Russia: The Hidden Advantages of Women, Peace, and Security
Brief by Kathleen McInnis, Benjamin Jensen, Audrey Aldisert, and Alexis Day — November 14, 2024

Photo: CSIS
What Difference Does It Make?
Report by Kathleen McInnis and Alexis Day — October 15, 2024
Featured Podcasts

Beating Putin’s Playbook
Podcast Episode by Kathleen McInnis — July 12, 2024

Decoding the Pentagon Bureaucracy
Podcast Episode by Kathleen McInnis — November 6, 2024

Lessons from Myanmar
Podcast Episode by Kathleen McInnis — May 1, 2024

Building Trust in Nuclear Diplomacy
Podcast Episode by Kathleen McInnis and M. Elaine Bunn — April 3, 2024
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Smart Women, Smart Power: A Conversation with Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman
Event — May 26, 2016

Julia Gillard on Women, Misogyny, and Education
Podcast Episode by Nina Easton — April 29, 2016

Smart Women, Smart Power: The Global Education Agenda - A Conversation with Julia Gillard
Event — April 20, 2016
America’s Role in the World
Podcast Episode by Nina Easton — April 20, 2016

Global Security: The View from Abroad
Podcast Episode by Nina Easton — March 25, 2016

U.S. Ambassadors Open Up on Life Abroad
Podcast Episode by Nina Easton — March 25, 2016

Smart Women, Smart Power: Global Security—The View from Abroad: A Conversation with America's Ambassadors
Event — March 18, 2016
Smart Women, Smart Power: Global Security—The View from Abroad: A Conversation with America's Ambassadors
Podcast Episode by Nina Easton — March 17, 2016

Fighting Youth and Religious Extremism
Podcast Episode by Nina Easton — March 10, 2016
