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
12:00 — 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.
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