BOOK TALK: ULRIKE SCHAEDE, AUTHOR OF JAPAN RE-EMERGES（シン・日本の経営 悲観バイアスを排す). 12/9, 5:45-8:30pm (JST), 3:45-6:30am (EST). HYBRID. Sponsor: Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. Speakers: Ulrike Schaede, Professor of Japanese Business, University of California San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). Fee. UNLOCKING DEVELOPMENT FINANCE FOR SOLUTIONS TO INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DISASTERS AND CLIMATE CHANGE. 12/9, 9:00-10:00am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for Global Development. Speakers Include: Christelle Cazabat, PhD, Head of Programmes, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre; Mohamed Amine Hillal, Financing Adviser, Solutions, UN Office of the Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement.
REAUTHORIZING THE NATIONAL QUANTUM INITIATIVE. 12/9, Noon-1:30pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Arthur Herman, Senior fellow and director of the Quantum Alliance Initiative, Hudson Institute; Ryan McKenney, General Counsel of Compliance and Director of Government Relations, Quantinuum; Rima Oueid, Senior Commercialization Executive, US Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions; Allison R. Schwartz, Vice President of Global Government Relations and Public Affairs, D-Wave Quantum Inc.
BOOK TALK: WHERE TYRANNY BEGINS: THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, THE FBI, AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY. 12/9, Noon-1:00pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: New America. Speaker: author David Rohde, National Security Editor, NBC News. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3OAKkly
[POSTPONED] PARTNERS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC: US POLICY IN THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION. 12/9, 1:30-5:30pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Yoon Jin-sik, Chairman, Korea International Trade Association; Ambassador Cho Hyundong, Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Korea; Michael Beeman, Former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan, Korea and APEC; Park Jongwon, Deputy Minister for Trade, Republic of Korea; Troy Stangarone, Director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy, Deputy Director of the Indo-Pacific Program; Kayla Orta, Senior Associate, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy; Kellee Wicker, Director, Science and Technology Innovation Program; Park Jin, Global Fellow, Former Foreign Minister, Republic of Korea; Yeo Han-koo, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Former Trade Minister, Republic of Korea; Mark Kennedy, Director, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition; Clete Willems, Partner, International Trade Policy, Akin and former Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council; Ambassador Choi Seokyoung, Former Korean Ambassador for Economic and Trade Affairs; Melissa K. Griffith, Lecturer in Technology and National Security, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; Mario Masaya, Senior Research Director, US-ASEAN Business Council; Scott Jacobs, Senior Principal for Global Government Affairs, Coupang.
CLIMATE AND THE 2024 ELECTION. 12/11, 6:00-8:00pm (EST). IN PERSON. Sponsor: Columbia Climate School. Speakers: Sheila Foster, leading scholar of environmental and climate justice; Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School.
TRUMP’S SECOND ACT: WHAT IT MEANS FOR ASIA AND PAKISTAN. 12/12, 9:30-10:30am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Asia Society. Speakers: Daniel Russel, Vice President of International Security and Diplomacy, ASPI; Maleeha Lodhi, fmr. Ambassador to the US, Pakistan,. Permanent Representative to US, Pakistan; Kamran Yousaf, Journalist, Host, The Review, Express News. https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/events/trumps-second-act-what-it-means-asia-and-pakistan
THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF CYBER POLICY: A RETROSPECTIVE. 12/9, 1:00-2:00pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Robert Knake, Principal of Orkestrel; Kiersten Todt, CSIS Non-Resident Senior Associate, President of Wondros; Mark Montgomery, Senior Director, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
BOOK LAUNCH: VIETNAM’S AMERICAN WAR: A NEW HISTORY. 12/9, 4:00-5:30pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: author, Pierre Asselin, Dwight E. Stanford Chair in the History of US Foreign Relations at San Diego State University; Olga Dror, Professor of History, Texas A&M University; Jessica Frazier, Associate Professor in the History and Gender and Women’s Studies Departments, University of Rhode Island. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3OCchcE
