He will appear in conversation with NBC News Correspondent Courtney Kube on July 17
Contact: Jon Purves
Senior Media Relations Manager
The Aspen Institute
202-736-2111 | jon.purves@aspeninstitute.org
Washington, DC, July 10, 2019 –– The Aspen Security Forum announced today that Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), will open the Forum. He will appear on Wednesday, July 17 at 5:00 pm MT in an interview with NBC News Correspondent Courtney Kube. They will discuss NATO at 70, in a wide-ranging conversation that will explore the past, present, and future of the alliance.
The conversation will be live streamed at: https://aspensecurityforum.org/media/live-video/
The sold-out Forum is presented by the Aspen Institute and will take place July 17-20, 2019 in Aspen, CO. The full agenda is available now at http://aspensecurityforum.org/agenda.
Additional featured speakers include: Robert Ashley, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; Philip Davidson, Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation; Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence; Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security; Adam Schiff, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Wendy Sherman, Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America; and Elissa Slotkin, U.S. Representative for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District.
Anchors, reporters, and analysts from NBC News and MSNBC, the official media partner of the 2019 Aspen Security Forum, will drive discussion throughout the week. Conversations will address multinational alliances, Western relations with China and Russia, stability in the Middle East, Homeland Security, developments in cyberspace and technology, and much more.
All sessions will be streamed live at http://aspensecurityforum.org/ and available to view after at http://aspensecurityforum.org/media/video-library/. Join the conversation on social media at #AspenSecurity. Follow the Security Forum on Twitter @AspenSecurity.
Sponsors for the 2019 Aspen Security Forum are Accenture, American Airlines, Deloitte, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MITRE, Oracle, Symantec, and United Launch Alliance.
Editor’s Note: Press have many options to cover the Forum, and they will be able to access livestreams of almost all publicly listed sessions. If you represent an outlet that does not already have a presence at the Forum, please direct questions to Jon.Purves@aspeninstitute.org.
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