Special Aspen Security Forum Edition
Join us for the Aspen Security Forum on August 4, 5, and 6. See our exciting line-up of speakers and the full agenda here. Just added this week:
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in conversation with CEO of Bridgewater Associates David McCormick.
Next week, we will be sending a Daily Leaf to update you on Aspen Security Forum programming and highlight content that provides context for and compliments the sessions for the following day.
The digital 2020 Aspen Security Forum will be free to all attendees, and all sessions will be on-the-record and posted to our website for future viewing.
This Week's Content Highlights
Features from Aspen Strategy Group Members
Michèle Flournoy in The Financial Times: Treat China’s Border Clash with India as a Clarion Call
Laurie Garrett in Foreign Policy: America’s Schools Are a Moral and Medical Catastrophe
Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times: We Interrupt This Gloom to Offer…Hope
Mitch Landrieu in The New York Times: The Price We Have Paid for Not Confronting Racism
David Leonhardt in The New York Times: It’s 2022. What Does Life Look Like?
Tanvi Madan in Foreign Affairs: China Is Losing India
Anja Manuel and Kathleen Hicks in Foreign Affairs: Can China’s Military Win the Tech War?
Mira Rapp-Hooper in Foreign Affairs: Saving America’s Alliances
Julie Smith and Laura Rosenberger in Newsweek: While the U.S. Sits Back, China Is Using COVID-19 to Cozy Up to Europe
Lawrence H. Summers in Financial Times: COVID-19 Looks Like a Hinge in History
Things to Know
Stay Informed with Important Analysis Relevant to Aspen Security Forum Discussions
Mark Esper, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece
Robert O’Brien, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Paulo Guedes, Minister of the Economy of Brazil
Vivian Balakrishnan, Foreign Minister of Singapore
Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mayor of Atlanta
Brian Hook, U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Senior Advisor to the Secretary
Kelly Craft, Ambassador of the U.S. to the United Nations
Tony Blinken, former Deputy Secretary of State
Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus, Harvard University
Laurie Garrett, Author, The Coming Plague
John Bolton, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Tom Donilon, former U.S. National Security Advisor
Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Mark Warner, Ranking Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Wes Moore, CEO, Robin Hood Foundation
Wendy Sherman, Director, Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami
Steve Hadley, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Kathleen Hicks, Senior Vice President; Henry A. Kissinger Chair; Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Nicholas Kristof, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Mitch Landrieu, former Mayor of New Orleans
Mira Rapp-Hooper, Stephen A. Schwarzman Senior Fellow for Asia Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations
David Leonhardt, Writer, The New York Times
Laura Rosenberger, Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Shivshankar Menon, former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India
Julianne Smith, former Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden
Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries
Renee DiResta, Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory
Mike Brown, Director, Defense Innovation Unit
Joseph Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State
Nicholas Burns, Harvard Professor and Executive Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Anja Manuel, Co-founder and partner, Rice, Hadley, Gates, & Manuel and Director, the Aspen Strategy Group