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Six Top Issues for 2014
New Confirmed Speakers Announced
 
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Aviation Leasing

 

Barclays Capital

 

 1918 Society Members

 

Carlson & The Carlson Family Foundation

 

Carnegie Corporation of New York

 

Cisco

 

Chevron

 

The Claremont Group

 

Duke Energy

 

ExxonMobil

 

The Gambrinus Company

 

German Marshall Fund of the U.S.

 

Goldman Sachs

 

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Hutchins Family Foundation

 

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Mr. Michael Phillip

 

NATO

 

Northrop Grumman

 

Raytheon

 

Steelcase, Inc.

 

Tomassian, Throckmorton & Inouye LLP

 

Thomson Reuters

 

Turkish Cultural Foundation

 

Weber Shandwick

 

August 14, 2013


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$455 World Affairs Council Member ($495 after September 1)
$545 Non-Member 
$430 World Affairs Council CEO/Staff/Board Member
 
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The World Affairs Councils of America is pleased to announce new confirmed speakers for the 2013 National Conference, Six Top Issues for 2014. Make your plans to join us in November. We are pleased to announce the following speakers have confirmed in addition to those listed further below:



President & Founding Chairman, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, on the virtual economy





Former Chairman and CEO, Carlson, on human trafficking






Deputy Commander, U.S. Cyber Command, on cyber security





Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., on energy and the environment





C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, on global economic realignment





Tarek Masoud
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, on the Middle East




Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, on emerging economies






Managing Director, Thomson Reuters, on the virtual economy




Already Confirmed
    

 

Peter Baker

1918 Society -- White House Correspondent, The New York Times; author of the upcoming book Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

  

 

 

 

 

Senator Richard Blumenthal

Co-Chair, Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, on making our democracy work

 

 

  

 

 

 

The Honorable Michael Chertoff

Former Secretary of Homeland Security; and Chairman and Co-Founder, The Chertoff Group, on cybersecurity 

 

  

 

 

Frank J. Cilluffo

Former Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security; Associate Vice President, George Washington University; Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute,  on cybersecurity 

 

 

 

Steve Clemons

Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic; Editor, Atlantic Live; and Senior Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation, on global economic realignment

 

 

 

 

Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky 

Senior Fellow, Harvard University JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs; Chair, WACA National Board of Directors 

 

 

 

John Hofmeister

Founder and Chief Executive, Citizens for Affordable Energy; and former President, Shell Oil Company, on U.S. energy policy and the environment

  

 

 

 

 

Kevin Johnson

Chief Executive Officer, Secure Ideas; and Senior Instructor, SANS Institute, on cybersecurity

 

 

 

 

  

Michael Levi

David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations, on U.S. energy policy and the environment 

 


 

William F. Martin

Former Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury and former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan; Chairman, Washington Policy & Analysis, Inc., on U.S. energy policy and the environment 

 

  

 

 

 

Barbara Slavin

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Center's South Asia Center; and Washington Correspondent, Al-Monitor, on the Middle East

 

  

 

  

Ambassador Ross Wilson

Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey; Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Lecturer, The George Washington University, on the Middle East

 

 


 

Robin Wright

Joint Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic world, on the Middle East 

 

 

Confirmed Embassy Receptions to Date

 

Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco

 

 
The World Affairs Councils of America will host its 2013 National Conference, Six Top Issues for 2014November 13-15, 2013 at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel

 

Held annually for over two decades, the World Affairs Councils of America's National Conference engages our regional leaders and members drawn from the business, civic, and education communities with leading policy-makers and experts. The National Conference launches the National Network's year-long discussion of the Six Top Issues for 2014 selected by our network leadership across the country and helps plan our programming for the coming year. 

 

The Six Top Issues selected by the National Network's leadership as the most important national security issues for the coming year are: 

  • Cybersecurity
  • U.S. Energy Independence
  • Global Economic Realignment
  • Middle East
  • Global Environment Issues
  • U.S. Education 
Councils, a flyer is available for your use to promote the National Conference to your members. Download Flyer
 

National Conference Scholarships Available

The National Board of Directors of the World Affairs Councils of America is proud to announce that we will be offering 25 scholarships for college students from our national network to attend the 2013 National Conference, U.S. National Security: Six Top Issues in 2014November 13-15, 2013 in Washington, DC at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel. For more information on how to apply, click here

 

For more information on the WACA Annual National Conference, click here.

 

Please join us! Conference registration and hotel reservations are now open. 

  

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Reserve Hotel Room at The Liaison

 

Special Early-Bird Rate for Members
Prices:
$455 World Affairs Council Member ($495 after September 1)
$545 Non-Member 
$430 World Affairs Council CEO/Staff/Board Member 

 

Staying at The Liaison 

We have secured a special group rate at The Liaison Capitol Hill of $225/night. 

 

To book rooms at this rate, click here or call 1-866-233-4642 and reference "National Conference - World Affairs."

 

The Liaison is the closest hotel to the U.S. Capitol. The Smithsonian, the National Mall, Union Station, and dozens of the country's most visited museums and monuments are within walking distance.

 

Celebrity chef Art Smith, who creates his award-winning Southern-modern "food for the soul" for the Liaison's restaurant Art and Soul, will be the chef for the National Conference. Perhaps best known as Oprah Winfrey's personal chef, Smith is well known for his fine-tuned, artisanal farm-to-table menu. First Lady Michelle Obama is known to have dined there with friends. 

 

Tentative Agenda

Wednesday, November 13

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM: Fall Leadership Meeting for Council CEOs and Staff/Annual Membership Meeting

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM: Opening Dinner  

 

Thursday, November 14

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Main Plenaries

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM: Embassy Receptions

 

Friday, November 15

7:30 AM - 8:45 AM: 1918 Society Breakfast

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Main Plenaries

Conference concludes at 3:00 PM 


Thank You to Our 2013 National Conference Sponsors
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