Affordable World Security Conference

Affordable World Security Conference to Convene Leaders on Defense Policy, Environment, Foreign Policy on March 27–28 in Washington

Defense Cuts, Foreign Policy, China Relations, Environment on Agenda

The W. P. Carey Foundation and the EastWest Institute will host top world leaders and distinguished guests at the Affordable World Security Conference March 27-28 at the Newseum in Washington. The conference will include appearances by two former heads of state, three Nobel laureates, and prominent leaders from the private sector and government both in the United States and abroad.

Confirmed speakers and moderators include: President MICHELLE BACHELET, Executive Director of U.N. Women and former President of Chile; President ÓSCAR ARIAS SÁNCHEZ, former President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Laureate; JOSEPH STIGLITZ, Nobel Laureate in Economics; Sec. MICHAEL CHERTOFF, former Secretary of Homeland Security; General MICHAEL HAYDEN, former Director, CIA and NSA; RAJENDRA K. PACHAURI, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Laureate; JIM CLIFTON, Chairman and CEO, Gallup; VARTAN GREGORIAN, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York; DANA PRIEST, Pulitzer Prize winner, the Washington Post; Ambassador PAULA DOBRIANSKY, former Undersecretary of State; Ambassador CHAS W. FREEMAN, JR., former Assistant Secretary of Defense; CARL HORST HAHN, Chairman Emeritus, Volkswagen Group; DAVID MARTIN, National Security Correspondent, CBS News; KHALID MALIK, U.N. Development Programme; SYLVIA EARLE, former Chief Scientist, NOAA.

The Affordable World Security Conference will examine four key areas of security thinking and policy:

• Financial and Economic Realities of Security
• The Security Budget: Balancing Cuts and Consequences
• China and America: The Pivotal Relationship for Cooperative Security
• New Challenges to Human Safety and Sustainable Security

* For Updated Agenda Information or to register, please visit http://affordableworldsecurity.org/

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