2015: Conversation on the Arctic, Space and Cybersecurity

The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and The American Academy of Diplomacy presented

 

New Frontiers in International Affairs:

A Conversation on the Arctic, Space and Cybersecurity

 

Views from the Puget Sound and the Potomac

 

Friday, October 16, 2015

University of Washington, HUB Room 334 and 332

Seattle, Washington

  

Inaugural Conference of the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute

Co-sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation

 

Seattle Conference 2015

The Inaugural Conference of the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute featured panel discussions on Cyber-security, The Arctic and Space, and included a keynote presentation by Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman of the Cohen Group and former U.S. Ambassador and Under Secretary of State. The conference was co-sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and delivered in partnership with the American Academy of Diplomacy.


AGENDA

 

8:00-8:30       Registration

 

8:30-8:45      Welcome

Professor Reşat Kasaba, Director & Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Robert M. Beecroft, Supervisory Senior Inspector, U.S. Department of State; former Ambassador and Head of the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Program Chair, American Academy of Diplomacy

Stephen Del Rosso, Program Director, International Peace & Security, Carnegie Corporation of New York

 

 

8:45-10:15:    Panel One –  Changing Political and Economic Dynamics in the Arctic:  Nation-States and Indigenous Permanent Participants

Moderator:  Nadine Fabbi, Managing Director, Canadian Studies Center and Arctic & International Relations, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Kenneth S. Yalowitz, Global Fellow, The Wilson Center; former Ambassador to Belarus and Georgia

Ben Fitzhugh, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of  Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington

Matt Morrison, Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Northwest Economic Region

 

10:15-10:30:   Break

 

10:30-12:00:    Panel Two – New Regions, New Frontiers: Pacific Northwest and Asia in Outer Space

Moderator:  Saadia Pekkanen, Associate Director, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Teresita C.  Schaffer, Nonresident Senior Fellow, The India Project, The Brookings Institution; former Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia

Roger Myers, Executive Director of Advanced-In-Space Programs, Aerojet Rocketdyne

Dominic Gates, Aerospace Reporter, Seattle Times

 

           

12:00-2:00:     Keynote Address – America’s Global Interests:  Can We Do More Than One Thing At A Time?

Welcome  John Hempelmann, President, Board of Governors, Henry M. Jackson Foundation

Marc I. Grossman, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group; former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Ambassador to Turkey

 

2:00-3:45:       Panel Three –  Public-Private Collaboration in Establishing International Cybersecurity Norms

Moderator:  Sara Curran, Associate Professor of International Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Jessica Beyer, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

David C. Gompert, Senior Fellow, The RAND Corporation; former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence

Paul Nicholas, Senior Director, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Corporation

Scott Godwin, General Manager in the National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Center

 

3:45-4:00       Concluding Remarks

Don Hellmann, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies

 

4:00-6:00:     Reception,

Yukon Room, University of Washington Club