New Guest Speakers for ISOA Winter Forum on Dec. 9
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
| Keynote Speaker: Ambassador James Franklin Jeffrey Former Special Representative for Syria Engagement and Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS |
Ambassador James F. Jeffrey retired from the Foreign Service with the rank of Career Ambassador in June, 2012. He was recalled to active duty at the Department of State by Secretary Pompeo in August, 2018 to serve as the Secretary’s Special Representative for Syria. In January, 2019, Jeffrey was selected by the Secretary to simultaneously serve as the Special Envoy for the |
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Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. Jeffrey was also named Chief of Mission for Syria in 2020. He retired again from the Foreign Service in November 2020.
During the period 2012-2018 Jeffrey was the Philip Solondz Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Visiting Instructor at George Washington University, an energy consultant for APCO, member of the SoSi Advisory Council, and member of the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board 2012-1017 and CIA External Advisory Board 2017-2018.
Before his first retirement in 2012, Ambassador Jeffrey held a series of senior posts in Washington, D.C., and abroad. His last assignment in the Service was Ambassador to Iraq, 2010-2012, where he led a mission by 2012 of 16,000 personnel and an annual budget of $6 billion. READ MORE >> |
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PANEL SPEAKERS Followed by a panel of experts to discuss the key regions of the world and the associated budgets in the next Administration. |
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| Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman President, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington |
Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman is president of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He previously served as U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2016-19 and U.S. ambassador to Kuwait from 2014-16. From 2013-14, he served as a senior advisor in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in the U.S. Department of State. |
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| The Honorable Randall G. Schriver Chairman of the Board, The Project 2049 Institute |
The Honorable Randall G. Schriver is Chairman of the Board at The Project 2049 Institute. Most recently, Mr. Schriver served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs from 8 January 2018 to 31 December 2019. Prior to his confirmation as Assistant Secretary, Mr. Schriver was a founding partner of Armitage International LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in international business development and strategies. READ MORE >> |
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| Todd Harrison Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs |
Todd Harrison is the director of Defense Budget Analysis and director of the Aerospace Security Project at CSIS. As a senior fellow in the International Security Program, he leads the Center’s efforts to provide in-depth, nonpartisan research and analysis of defense funding, space security, and air power issues. READ MORE >> |
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| Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia |
Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas has three decades of experience working on national security and foreign policy in the U.S. executive, legislative branch, private sector and for international organizations overseas. In 2019-2020, she ran to represent New York’s 17th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. She is currently President, Farkas Global Strategies. Prior to that, she was Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United State and the Atlantic Council and National Security Contributor for NBC/MSNBC. |
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