Aspen Security Forum: DC Edition to feature Jens Plötner, German diplomat and Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to the Federal Chancellor and UN Deputy Secretary General[...]

Join the fourth annual DC Aspen Security Forum on Wednesday, December 4 as speakers discuss critical national security and foreign policy challenges. Watch the live stream here.

Contact: Jon Purves
The Aspen Institute
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Ilana Drimmer
Aspen Strategy Group & Aspen Security Forum
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Washington, DC, December 3, 2024 - Today, the Aspen Strategy Group shared additional speakers for this week's Aspen Security Forum: DC Edition. The Forum, which takes place tomorrow, Wednesday, December 4 from 1:00 - 5:00 PM ET in the Aspen Institute's Washington, DC office, will feature panels and one-on-one discussions on the incoming administration's foreign policy goals and challenges, perspectives from global leaders, insights on U.S.-China policy, and the health of the transatlantic relationship. Speakers featured include current and former U.S. government and military officials, policymakers, senior foreign officials, academics, and prominent journalists.

The Forum's agenda and additional speakers will be posted here on Wednesday morning ahead of the event. Confirmed speakers to date include:

• Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations
• Kurt Campbell, United States Deputy Secretary of State
• Jens Plötner, Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to the Federal Chancellor for the Federal Chancellery
• Chris Van Hollen, Senator (D-MD)
• Stephen Hadley, Former U.S. National Security Advisor
• Susan Rice, Former U.S. National Security Advisor
• Jane Harman, Chair of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy and former Congressperson
• Kajsa Ollongren, Former Dutch Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister
• Clément Beaune, Former French Minister for Europe
• Keoki Jackson, Senior Vice President for National Security, MITRE
• Mike Allen, Co-Founder, Axios
• Susan B. 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

For fifteen years, this internationally renowned forum has provided a nonpartisan venue for global leaders to publicly discuss national security and foreign policy issues. Now in its fourth year, the winter DC-edition of the Aspen Security Forum complements the summer forum, which takes place in Aspen, Colorado. View conversations from this year's summer forum here.

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For Media: Please direct any inquiries or requests to attend in-person to Jon Purves ([email protected]) and Ilana Drimmer ([email protected]). Please credit the Aspen Security Forum in any coverage.

The Aspen Security Forum is generously supported by Google, McKinsey, Microsoft, MITRE, Walton Family Foundation, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, as well as Amazon Web Services, Financial Times, Lockheed Martin, and The Rockefeller Foundation, with additional support from American Airlines and Intel.

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The Aspen Strategy Group's mission is to convene decision makers in resolutely non-partisan public and private forums to address key foreign policy challenges facing the United States. The ASG organizes its annual Summer Workshop, hosts Track II dialogues, and presents the annual Aspen Security Forum where domestic and foreign government officials, business executives, leading academics, and noted journalists convene for three and a half days to discuss solutions to the most pressing national security and foreign policy challenges of our time. As a part of the Aspen Strategy Group's commitment to cultivating the next generation of leaders in national security and foreign policy, the third pillar of its work is the Rising Leaders Program for young professionals.