On December 8, foreign policy and national security leaders will discuss critical topics including the winter war in Europe, developments in the Indo-Pacific, U.S. national security competitiveness, as well as 1-1 interviews with key officials.
Contact: Jon Purves
Associate Director, Media Relations
The Aspen Institute
Jon.Purves@aspeninstitute.org
Washington, DC, December 2, 2022 –The Aspen Strategy Group today shared the agenda for the 2022 Aspen Security Forum: D.C. Edition, a day-long conference taking place on Thursday, December 8 at The InterContinental Hotel – The Wharf. NBCUniversal News Group and the Financial Times will participate throughout as the official media partners of the Forum.
The full programming agenda and speaker list is now available at https://www.aspensecurityforum.org/2022-asf-dc-agenda and featured below.
Speakers appearing include: Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense; David Turk, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy; Zbigniew Rau, Tobias Billström, and Pekka Haavisto, respectively the Foreign Affairs Ministers of Poland, Sweden, and Finland; Tobias Lindner, Minister of State, Germany; Senators Mark Warner and Todd Young; Martha Koome, Chief Justice and President, Supreme Court of Kenya; Kurt Campbell, Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs, National Security Council; Karen Pierce, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States; Arthur Sinodinos, Ambassador of Australia to the United States; Arati Prabhakar, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and David Pekoske, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration.
Agenda
9:00-9:10 – Opening Remarks
- Joseph Nye, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group, and Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
- Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
9:10-9:45 – Fireside Chat with Kurt Campbell, Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs, National Security Council
9:45-10:10 – From AUKUS to Zhengzhou: Developments Across the Indo-Pacific
- Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
- Karen Pierce, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States
- Arthur Sinodinos, Ambassador of Australia to the United States
- Amna Nawaz, Chief Correspondent, PBS Newshour
10:10-10:50 – CHIPS, China, and Commerce
- Zoë Baird, Senior Counselor to the Secretary for Technology and Economic Growth, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs, Google
10:50-11:30 – On the Rise: Perspectives in Foreign Policy – A Panel with Aspen Strategy Group Rising Leaders
- Introduction by Dan Porterfield, President, Aspen Institute
- Mary Brooks, Public Policy Fellow, The Wilson Center
- Yanique Campbell, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
- Brian Mongeau, Principal, First In
- Anand Raghuraman, Director, Global Public Policy, Mastercard
- Geo Saba, Chief of Staff, Office of U.S. Representative Ro Khanna
11:30-12:00 – Fireside Chat with David Pekoske, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration and Tom Costello, Correspondent, NBC News
12:30-1:30 – Winter Is Here: Defense and Security in a Europe at War
- Tobias Billström, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden
- Pekka Haavisto, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finland Tobias Lindner, Minister of State, Germany
- Zbigniew Rau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland
- Moderator: Peter Spiegel, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
1:30-2:00 – Fireside Chat with Martha Koome, Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya
2:00-2:45 – U.S. Competitiveness and National Security
- Arati Prabhakar, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Mark Warner, U.S. Senator for Virginia
- Todd Young, U.S. Senator for Indiana
2:45-3:15 – Fireside Chat with David Turk, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
3:15-4:00 – Beyond the World Cup: Triumphs and Challenges in the Middle East Moderator:
- Abbas Milani, Director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, Stanford University
- Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary General, European External Action Service
- Dennis Ross, Distinguished Fellow, Washington Institute of Near East Policy
- Mona Yacoubian, Senior Advisor, Executive Office and Middle East and North Africa Center, United States Institute of Peace
- Moderator: Dafna Linzer, Executive Editor, POLITICO
4:00-4:30 – Fireside Chat with Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense and Margaret Brennan, Moderator, Face the Nation, and Chief Foreign Correspondent, CBS News
4:30-4:40 – Closing Remarks
- Niamh King, Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
- Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
An internationally renowned conference, the Aspen Security Forum has provided a non-partisan public venue for global leaders to discuss the key national security and foreign policy issues of the day for the past thirteen years. Now a biannual event, the first Washington, D.C. Forum took place in November 2021, while the three-and-a-half-day conference returned to Aspen, CO, in July 2022.
For Media: Members of the press are invited to apply for credentials here. Please direct any inquiries to Jon Purves: Jon.Purves@aspeninstitute.org. Programming will also be livestreamed at www.aspensecurityforum.org.
The Forum is generously supported by Google, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, McKinsey, Microsoft, Red Cell Partners, and Rockefeller Foundation, with travel support from American Airlines.
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The Aspen Strategy Group’s mission is to convene decision makers in resolutely non-partisan public and private forums to address key foreign policy challenges facing the United States. The ASG organizes its annual Summer Workshop, hosts Track II dialogues, and presents the annual Aspen Security Forum where domestic and foreign government officials, business executives, leading academics, and noted journalists convene for three and a half days to discuss solutions to the most pressing national security and foreign policy challenges of our time. As a part of the Aspen Strategy Group’s commitment to cultivating the next generation of leaders in national security and foreign policy, the third pillar of its work is the Rising Leaders Program for young professionals.