INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS BANKERS ANNUAL WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. 3/7-8. Speakers include: Hon. Nathan Sheets, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, who will give the opening keynote address; Hon. Lael Brainard, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, who will give the keynote luncheon address; Hon. Thomas Curry, Comptroller of the Currency; Hon. Martin Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Hon. Timothy Massad, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Alex Brazier, Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk, Bank of England. Program.
THE FY2017 DEFENSE BUDGET AND STRATEGIC OUTLOOK. 3/7, 9:00-11:30am. Sponsor: CSIS International Security Program. Speakers: Mike McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer; Jamie Morin, Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation; Robert Scher, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Capabilities; Andrew Hunter, Director, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group; Mark Cancian, Senior Advisor, International Security Program, CSIS; Shawn Brimley, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, Center for a New American Security; Roger Zakheim, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
DISCIPLES: THE WORLD WAR II MISSIONS OF THE CIA DIRECTORS WHO FOUGHT FOR WILD BILL DONOVAN. 3/7, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsor: Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Speaker: Author Douglas Waller.
COLD WAR LEGACIES: LESSONS FROM U.S.-JAPAN MILITARY STRATEGIES IN THE PACIFIC. 3/7, Noon-1:30pm,Washington, DC. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Narushige Michishita, Japan Scholar; Peter Swartz, Center for Naval Analyses; David Winkler, Director of Programs, Naval Historical Foundation.
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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE IMPERIAL ORDER: CONTEST OR COLLUSION. 3/7, 4:00-5:30pm. Sponsor: National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Speaker: Susan Pedersen is Morris Professor of British History at Columbia University, historian of British and international politics, author, The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire.
THE FY2017 DEFENSE BUDGET AND STRATEGIC OUTLOOK. 3/7, 9:00-11:30am. Sponsor: CSIS International Security Program. Speakers: Mike McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer; Jamie Morin, Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation; Robert Scher, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Capabilities; Andrew Hunter, Director, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group; Mark Cancian, Senior Advisor, International Security Program, CSIS; Shawn Brimley, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, Center for a New American Security; Roger Zakheim, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS AND SOUTHEAST ASIA: MEETING REGIONAL DEMANDS. 3/7, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: East-West Center. Speakers: Tsutomu Kikuchi, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University; Satu P. Limaye, Director, East-West Center Washington.
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COLD WAR LEGACIES: LESSONS FROM U.S.-JAPAN MILITARY STRATEGIES IN THE PACIFIC. 3/7, Noon-1:30pm,Washington, DC. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Narushige Michishita, Japan Scholar; Peter Swartz, Center for Naval Analyses; David Winkler, Director of Programs, Naval Historical Foundation.
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EUROPE, A PERFECT STORM OF CRISES? 3/7, 3:00pm. Sponsor: Project for the Study of the 21st Century. Speakers: Sir Michael Leigh, Former Director General for E.U. Enlargement, European Commission; Heather Conley, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau for European and Eurasian Affairs; Simona Kordosova Lightfoot, Campaigns Manager, Future Europe Program, Atlantic Council.
A DISCUSSION WITH SAHAR NOWROUZZADEH, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL DIRECTOR ON IRAN. 3/7, 7:00-9:00pm. Sponsor: George Washington University. Speaker: Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, National Security Council Director on Iran.