Agenda, New Speakers Announced for Today’s Aspen Security Forum: DC Edition

December 4, 2024

ASF: DC edition takes place today from 1pm ET. Review the agenda here and watch the livestream here. Speakers include Vivek Ramaswamy, Amina J. Mohammed, Kurt Campbell, Jens Plötner, and Senator Chris Van Hollen.

Contact: Jon Purves
The Aspen Institute
jon.purves@aspeninstitute.org

Ilana Drimmer
Aspen Strategy Group & Aspen Security Forum
ilana.drimmer@aspeninstitute.org

Washington, DC, December 4, 2024 – The Aspen Strategy Group this morning shared the agenda for the 2024 Aspen Security Forum: DC Edition, which takes place today, December 4, 2024, at the Aspen Institute’s DC headquarters from 1:00pm-5:20pm ET. View the agenda and speaker list.

The winter edition of one of the world’s premier forums addressing critical national security and foreign policy challenges will feature panels and one-on-one discussions. Speakers will address the incoming administration’s foreign policy goals and challenges, perspectives from global leaders, insights on U.S.-China policy, and the health of the transatlantic relationship. Speakers include current and former U.S. government and military officials, policymakers, senior foreign officials, academics, and prominent journalists.

Programming includes:

  • DOGE Co-Lead, entrepreneur, and former 2024 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in conversation with AXIOS co-founder Mike Allen.
  • United States Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell in conversation with Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News.
  • U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) in conversation with PBS NewsHour Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent Nick Schifrin.
  • A panel on foreign policy challenges for the next administration with Stephen Hadley, Former U.S. National Security Advisor; Jane Harman, Chair of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy and former Congressperson; Keoki Jackson, Senior Vice President for National Security, MITRE; Susan Rice, Former U.S. National Security Advisor; moderated by Susan B. Glasser, Staff writer and columnist, The New Yorker.
  • A panel with Europe’s perspective on the future of the transatlantic relationship with Kajsa Ollongren, Former Dutch Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister; Clément Beaune, Former French Minister for Europe, Jens Plötner, Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to the Federal Chancellor for the Federal Chancellery; moderated by Peter Spiegel, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times.

For Media: Please direct any inquiries or requests to Jon Purves (Jon.Purves@aspeninstitute.org) and Ilana Drimmer (Ilana.Drimmer@aspeninstitute.org). Please credit the Aspen Security Forum in any coverage.

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The Aspen Security Forum is generously supported by Google, McKinsey, Microsoft, MITRE, Walton Family Foundation, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, as well as Amazon Web Services, Financial Times, Lockheed Martin, and The Rockefeller Foundation, with additional support from American Airlines and Intel.

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The Aspen Strategy Group’s mission is to convene decision makers in resolutely non-partisan public and private forums to address key foreign policy challenges facing the United States. The ASG organizes its annual Summer Workshop, hosts Track II dialogues, and presents the annual Aspen Security Forum where domestic and foreign government officials, business executives, leading academics, and noted journalists convene for three and a half days to discuss solutions to the most pressing national security and foreign policy challenges of our time. As a part of the Aspen Strategy Group’s commitment to cultivating the next generation of leaders in national security and foreign policy, the third pillar of its work is the Rising Leaders Program for young professionals.

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