Monday in Washington April 14, 2014

IDENTIFYING CHALLENGES TO DELIVERING CBRNe CAPABILITIES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC. 4/14, 8:30am-4:30pm. Sponsor: Banyan Analytics. Speakers: Charles Casto, Former Regional Administrator, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; N. Vinod Chandra Menon, Former Member, National Disaster Management Authority, Government of India; Carol Chan, Deputy Director, USAID, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance; Dr. Elin Gursky, Former Senior Advisor, Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. James Schear, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations; Lieutenant General Wallace “ Chip” Gregson (U. S. Marine Corps, retired), Former Assistant Secretary of Defense. 

TOWARDS A BALANCED COMBAT AIR FORCE. 4/14, 9:30-10:30am. Sponsor: Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). Speakers: David Deptula, Dean, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies; Mark Gunzinger, Senior Fellow, CSBA.

WORKING WITH RUSSIA: LESSONS AND BEST PRACTICES FOR TIMES OF CONFLICT.4/14, 12:30-1:30pm. Sponsor: Center on Global Interests. Speaker: Suzanne Massie, Advisor on Russia to President Ronald Reagan. 

TERRORISM, PARTY POLITICS, AND THE US: EXPECTATIONS OF THE UPCOMING IRAQI ELECTIONS. 4/14, 12:30-2:00pm. Sponsor: Middle East and North Africa Club, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Speakers: Ahmed Ali, Iraq Research Analyst, Institute for Study of War; Judith Yaphe, Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University.

CHALLENGES TO FURTHER NUCLEAR ARMS REDUCTIONS. 4/14, 2:00-3:30pm. Sponsor: Brookings Institution. Speakers: Dennis Gormley, University of Pittsburgh; Gotz Neuneck, Deputy Director, Institute for Peace Research and Security policy, University of Hamburg; Nikolai Sokov, Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation; Steven Pifer, Senior Fellow and Director, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative, Brookings.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA. 4/14, 3:00-4:30pm. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Ted Piccone, Acting Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy, Brookings; Michael Kirby, Chair, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea; Marcus Noland, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Richard Bush, Senior Fellow, Chair in Taiwan Studies, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings; Roberta Cohen, Co-Chair, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Brookings.

A COMPLICATED ARRANGEMENT: INDIA AND THE US SINCE 1947. 4/14, 4:00-5:00pm. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Author Rudra Chaudhuri, Forged in Crisis: India and the US Since 1947, Lecturer, India Institute of King‘s College London; Author George Perkovich, India’s Nuclear Bomb: the Impact on Global Proliferation, Director and Vice President, Nuclear policy Program, Carnegie.

CBRNe Response in the Asia-Pacific

International CBRNe Response: 

Identifying Challenges to Delivering Capabilities 

in the Asia-Pacific

 Monday, April 14, 2014 

8:30am – 4:30pm

The Capital Hilton – Congressional Room, 

1001 16th St., NW Washington, DC 

Banyan Analytics

Themes: 

Foreign Perspectives: Lessons Learned from Fukushima Daiichi and Bhopal 

Planning for Future CBRNe (Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear defense and explosive),

events in the Asia-Pacific

Obstacles and Considerations for regional CBRNe response

Conference Agenda

8:00 am: Registration and Welcome Coffee
8:30 am: Opening Remarks by Institute Chair Lt. Gen. Wallace “Chip” Gregson
Conference Purpose by Institute Director David Hamon

8:45 am: Keynote: Charles Casto, Former Regional Administrator, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Former Director, Site Operations in Japan after Fukushima Daiichi

9:15 am: Panel Discussion, Foreign Perspectives of lessons learned from Fukushima and Bhopal
Moderator: David Hamon, Institute Director

Charles Casto, Former Director of Site Operations after Fukushima Daiichi Incident
N. Vinod Chandra Menon, Former Member, National Disaster Management Authority, Government of India
Carol Chan, Deputy Director, USAID, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
Bill Berger, Principal Regional Advisor, USAID, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

10:45 am: Break

11:00 am: Panel Discussion, obstacles and considerations for regional CBRNe response
Moderator: Dr. Clete DiGiovanni, M.D.

Dr. Amy Smithson, Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Dr. Katherine Uraneck, M.D., Health Care Preparedness Specialist
Dr. Elin Gursky, ANSER, Former Senior Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Health and Human Services.

12:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 pm: Panel Discussion, industry perspectives on remediation
Moderator: Frances Veasey, Institute Deputy Director

Dr. Eric Daxon, CHP, Battelle
Timothy Frazier, Former Senior Advisor at Dickstein Shapiro LLP and former Designated Officer, Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future

2:30 pm: Panel Discussion, planning for future CBRNe events in the Asia-Pacific
Moderator: Lt. Gen. Chip Gregson, Institute Chair

Richard Love, Esq., Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Defense University
Colonel Peter Ahern, Marine Commandant’s Strategic Initiatives Group and Former CBIRF Commander, II Marine Expeditionary Force
Dr. James Schear, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations
Heinrich Reyes, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Division Chief, National Guard Bureau

4:30 pm: Closing remarks by Lt. Gen. Gregson and David Hamon