United States and global leaders to address urgent national security and foreign policy challenges at the 14th Aspen Security Forum, held with media partners NBCUniversal News Group and the Financial Times.
Contact: Jon Purves
Associate Director, Media Relations
The Aspen Institute
jon.purves@aspeninstitute.org
Washington, DC, July 13, 2023––The Aspen Strategy Group today shared the agenda for the upcoming 2023 Aspen Security Forum. The organization’s flagship annual gathering will take place in Aspen, Colorado from July 18-21. The Forum will feature current and former U.S. government and military officials, foreign cabinet officials, business leaders, key academics, and prominent journalists. Panel discussions and one-on-one interviews will address the most critical national security and foreign policy issues facing the U.S. and the global community.
The full agenda, which is subject to change, can be viewed here and the list of speakers announced to date is available here.
Speakers confirmed include: Antony J. Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State; Alejandro N. Mayorkas, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Arati Prabhakar; Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada; James Cleverly, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom; William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Christine Wormuth, U.S. Secretary of the Army; John Aquilino, Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; James Dickinson, Commander, U.S. Space Command; Mircea Geoană, Deputy Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Emmanuel Bonne, Diplomatic Adviser to President Macron; Monica Juma, National Security Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kenya; K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law of Singapore; and other prominent speakers yet to be publicly announced.
“The 2023 Aspen Security Forum will convene global leaders from Washington and the world over, including senior government officials, C-suite leadership, media, and civil society. Together we will explore the technological, security, economic, and geopolitical risks that lie just over the horizon, and work creatively to meet the challenges of tomorrow,” said Anja Manuel, Executive Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and former State Department official.
Anchors and Correspondents from NBCUniversal News Group and journalists from the Financial Times, the media partners of the Aspen Security Forum, will drive conversations and coverage throughout the event. Moderating journalists include Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent on NBC News and host of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC; Stephanie Ruhle, host of The 11th Hour on MSNBC and NBC News senior business analyst; Courtney Kube, Pentagon Correspondent, NBC News; Peter Spiegel, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times; and Edward Luce, U.S. National Editor and Columnist, Financial Times.
Additional journalist moderators include the Washington Post’s David Ignatius; NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly; The New York Times’ Peter Baker and David Sanger; The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser; Fox News’ Martha MacCallum; The Wall Street Journal’s Gordon Lubold and Sharon Weinberger; Semafor’s Steve Clemons; the BBC’s Sarah Smith; POLITICO’s Matt Kaminski; CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and Jim Sciutto; and Axios’ Ryan Heath.
While passes to attend in person are sold out, all mainstage programming will be accessible for free via livestream on the Security Forum homepage or by registering here in advance to have the daily link sent directly. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, The Weekly Leaf, for daily updates and summaries from the Forum and follow the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Threads.
The Forum is generously supported by Google, Mastercard, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, MITRE, PayPal, The Rockefeller Foundation, United Launch Alliance, USA Rare Earth, U.S. Innovative Technology, and the Walton Family Foundation, with additional support from American Airlines, Beacon Global Strategies, and Intel.
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