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McCloskey Speaker Series: U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges: A conversation with Michèle Flournoy and Anne-Marie Slaughter moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Tue Aug 7, 2012
Aspen, CO

Date

Tue Aug 7, 2012
11:30am – 12:30pm MDT

Location

Aspen, CO, United States
Paepcke Auditorium

Contact

    [email protected]
    (970) 920-5770

Hosts

In Collaboration with the Aspen Strategy Group.

Michèle Flournoy served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Obama Administration, and was the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. Ms. Flournoy has received several awards from the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Aspen Strategy Group.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009–2011 she served as Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Upon leaving the State Department she received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award for her work leading the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.

Fee: $15. Tickets on sale at www.aspenshowtix.com.n/a