2024
ASF: DC Edition
December 4, 2024 | Washington, DC
2024 Agenda
2024 Welcome Message
2024 Videos and Transcripts
Message from our Executive Director, Anja Manuel
December 4, 2024
Dear friends and colleagues,
On the eve of 2025 and a new U.S. administration, we come together to embrace the potential for change while recognizing what endures.
We will enter this new year with continuing global challenges: war and instability in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East; persistent tensions in the Indo-Pacific; and heightened great power competition playing out globally. Around the world, voters headed to the polls this year in unprecedented numbers, bringing about new partnerships and alliances and calling existing paradigms into question.
The new year will bring potential for great advancements in areas such as AI and space, as well as novel ways of approaching current geopolitical challenges.
However, what endures is our need for thoughtful, strategic, bipartisan efforts to tackle our difficulties. In the face of global uncertainty and complexity, our ability to come together—across political divides and ideological differences—is paramount.
As many of you know, the Aspen Strategy Group’s roots and core mission is to convene decision-makers and thought leaders from across industries, sectors, and political parties to focus on the most pressing national security and foreign policy issues—together.
Thank you for joining us in this work by convening here today for the Aspen Security Forum: DC Edition in our nation’s capital.
Anja Manuel
Executive Director
Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
2024 Agenda
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Wednesday, December 4
12:30 — 5:00 PM Registration Open for Guests
12:30 — 1:00 PM Light Bites and Refreshments for Guests
1:00 — 1:05 PM Welcome Remarks
- Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
1:05 — 1:45 PM Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next Administration
- Stephen Hadley, Founding Principal, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC; Former U.S. National Security Advisor
- Jane Harman, Chair, Commission on the National Defense Strategy; Former Member of Congress
- Keoki Jackson, Senior Vice President & General Manager, MITRE National Security
- Susan Rice, Former U.S. National Security Advisor
- Moderator: Susan Glasser, Staff Writer and Columnist, The New Yorker
1:45 — 2:10 PM Fireside Chat with Senator Chris Van Hollen
- Chris Van Hollen, Senator for Maryland, U.S. Senate
- Moderator: Nick Schifrin, Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
2:10 — 2:35 PM On the Rise: Perspectives on Foreign Policy with ASG Rising Leaders
- Alberto Alberto, Senior Policy Advisor, CHIPS National Semiconductor Technology Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Grant Cuprak, Defense Strategist
- Matthew Hauwiller, Senior Engineer, Seagate Technology
- Tina Huang, Wadhwani AI Center Adjunct Fellow, CSIS
- Rahaf Safi, Humanitarian Aid Practitioner
- Moderator: Niamh King, Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
2:35 — 3:15 PM Fireside Chat with Vivek Ramaswamy
- Vivek Ramaswamy, Co-Lead, U.S. Department of Government Efficiency; New York Times Bestselling Author; Former 2024 Republican U.S. Presidential Candidate
- Moderator: Mike Allen, Co-Founder, Axios
3:15 — 3:40 PM Coffee Break
3:40 — 4:10 PM Fireside Chat with Amina Mohammed
- Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
- Moderator: Alex Marquardt, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
4:10 — 4:50 PM The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship: Europe’s Perspective
- Clément Beaune, Former Minister of State for European Affairs, France
- Enrique Mora Benavente, Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs/Political Director, European External Action Service
- Kajsa Ollongren, Former Minister of Defense; Former Deputy Prime Minister, The Netherlands
- Jens Plötner, Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to the Chancellor, Germany
- Moderator: Peter Spiegel, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
4:50 — 5:15 PM Fireside Chat with Kurt Campbell
- Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
- Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
5:15 — 5:20 PM Closing Remarks
- Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
- Niamh King, Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
Please join us for the closing reception immediately following programming.
Videos and Transcripts
Speakers
Leadership
Harvard Kennedy School
Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group
Speakers
Amina Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
Enrique Mora Benavente
Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs/Political Director, European External Action Service
Kurt Campbell
Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Jens Plötner
Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to the Federal Chancellor, Federal Chancellery, Germany
Chris Van Hollen
U.S. Senator for Maryland, U.S. Senate
Vivek Ramaswamy
DOGE Co-Lead, New York Times Bestselling Author, Former 2024 Republican U.S. Presidential Candidate
Kajsa Ollongren
Former Minister of Defence; Former Deputy Prime Minister, The Netherlands
Clément Beaune
Former French Minister for Europe, French Civil Service, France
Stephen Hadley
Founding Principal, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC; Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Susan Rice
Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Jane Harman
Chair, The Commission on the National Defense Strategy; Former Member of Congress
Keoki Jackson
Senior Vice President & General Manager, MITRE National Security
Alberto Alberto
Senior Policy Advisor, CHIPS National Semiconductor Technology Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
Grant Cuprak
Defense Strategist
Matthew Hauwiller
Senior Engineer, Seagate Technology
Tina Huang
Wadhwani AI Center Adjunct Fellow, CSIS
Rahaf Safi
Humanitarian Aid Practitioner
Mike Allen
Co-Founder, Axios
Susan Glasser
Staff Writer and Columnist, The New Yorker
Alex Marquardt
Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Andrea Mitchell
Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
Nick Schifrin
Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Peter Spiegel
U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
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