2021 Aspen Security Forum
November 3 & 4, 2021 | In-Person
Wednesday, November 3
Opening Remarks
Speakers:
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Nicholas Burns, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group
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Anja Manuel, Director, Aspen Strategy Group
A Conversation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Military Challenges of the 21st Century
Speaker: Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator: Lester Holt, Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News
Cybersecurity is National Security: Cyber Command and NSA's Partnership Defending the Nation
Speaker: Paul Nakasone, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Defeating the Virus: The Biden Administration’s Global Vaccination Pledge
Speakers:
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Gary Edson, CEO, COVID Collaborative
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Anne Pritchett, Senior Vice President, Policy and Research, PhRMA
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Kathleen Sebelius, former Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Gayle Smith, Coordinator for Global COVID Response and Health Security, Department of State
Moderator: Kavita Patel, Nonresident Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
Space as Critical Infrastructure
Speakers:
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John Galer, Assistant Vice President, National Security Space, AIA
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Erin Miller, Executive Director, Space ISAC
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Sam Visner, Technical Fellow, The MITRE Corporation
Moderator: Joseph Marks, Reporter, The Washington Post
A Conversation with Condoleezza Rice
Speaker: Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State
Moderator: Margaret Brennan, Moderator, Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CBS News
On the Rise: Perspectives on Foreign Policy
Speakers: Aspen Strategy Group Rising Leaders
A Conversation with House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff
Speaker: Adam Schiff, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News and Host, Andrea Mitchell Reports, MSNBC
The Nexus of Climate Change and National Security
Speakers:
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Raj Shah, President, Rockefeller Foundation
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John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
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Todd Gloria, Mayor of San Diego
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Alice Hill, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, The Council on Foreign Relations
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Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative for Renewable Energy for All, the United Nations, and Co-Chair, UN-Energy
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Daniel Poneman, former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
A Conversation with the Minister of Defense of Singapore on the Asia-Pacific
Speaker: Ng Eng Hen, Minister of Defense of Singapore
Moderator: Joe Nye, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group
Democracy vs. Authoritarianism: The Global Struggle
Speakers:
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Mike Abramowitz, President, Freedom House
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Sadanand Dhume, Senior Fellow, AEI
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John Frank, Vice President for UN Affairs, Microsoft
Moderator: Lara Jakes, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times
Follow the Money: Corruption and National Security
Speakers:
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Daniel Eriksson, CEO, Transparency International
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Jane Harman, Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, The Wilson Center
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Juan Zarate, Chairman, Center on Economic and Financial Power, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Moderator: Dina Temple-Raston, Senior Correspondent, The Record
The China Challenge: A Conversation with Senator Jack Reed
Speaker: Jack Reed, Senator from Rhode Island
Moderator: Gordon Lubold, White House and National Security Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
The Future of Europe and the Transatlantic Alliance
Speakers:
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Brendan Boyle, Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd Congressional District
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Philippe Etienne, Ambassador of France to the U.S.
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Emily Haber, Ambassador of Germany to the U.S.
Moderator: Nick Schifrin, Foreign and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
The Lithuania Story
Speaker: Arnoldas Pranckevičius, Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania
Moderator: Nick Schifrin, Foreign and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Introductory Remarks
Speakers:
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Anja Manuel, Director, Aspen Strategy Group
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Dan Porterfield, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
Thursday, November 4
A Conversation with the Secretary of the Navy
Speaker: Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy
Moderator: Kevin Baron, Executive Editor, Defense One
An Increasingly Adversarial World: Cross-Atlantic Perspectives
Speakers:
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Dame Karen Pierce, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the U.S.
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Kori Schake, Senior Fellow and Director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, AEI
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Tom Wright, Director, Center on the United States and Europe, the Brookings Institution
Moderator: Matt Kaminski, Editor-in-Chief, Politico
The Great Experiment: The Health of American Democracy
Speaker:
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Arthur Brooks, William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
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Amy Walter, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Cook Political Report
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Building a More Resilient Global Supply Chain
Speaker:
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Elissa Slotkin, Representative for Michigan's 8th Congressional District
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Michael McCaul, Representative for Texas' 10th Congressional District
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Bruce Andrews, Corporate VP and Chief Government Affairs Officer, Intel
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Chester "Chip" Davis, Jr., President and CEO, Healthcare Distribution Alliance
Moderator: Anja Manuel, Director, Aspen Strategy Group
Global Economic Recovery: Challenges and Opportunities
Speakers:
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Mike Froman, former U.S. Trade Representative
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Austan Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum
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Dambisa Moyo, Global Economist and Author
Moderator: Edward Luce, U.S. National Editor and Columnist, The Financial Times
The Future of Special Operations Forces
Speaker: Richard Clarke, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
Moderator: Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Rejecting Decline: Mapping America's Choices in the Digital Revolution
Speaker: Ben Sasse, U.S. Senator for Nebraska
Moderator: Stephen Hayes, CEO and Editor, The Dispatch
Preserving America's Technological Edge
Speakers:
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Mike Brown, Director, Defense Innovation Unit
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Chris Lynch, Co-Founder and CEO, Rebellion Defense
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Teresa Shea, Vice President, Cyber Offense and Defense Experts, Raytheon Intelligence and Space
Moderator: Nancy Youssef, National Security Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
A Conversation with U.S. Marine Corps Commandant David Berger
Speaker: David Berger, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
Moderator: Courtney Kube, Correspondent, NBC News
Protecting the Homeland in a New Era: A Conversation with Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Closing Remarks
Speaker: Anja Manuel, Director, Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times