All right, everyone find your table, please. You will have time to mingle during lunch. Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to our annual event, celebrating womens leadership. Can i have your attention . Thank you. Again, thank you. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to our big annual event celebrating womens leadership. Im lois romano, culture of the board of directors and im going to be brief because we have a pretty full program. On behalf of myself and my cochair, kathy russell, ambassador kathy russell, thank you all for your support and for being here today to honor three phenomenal women for their service to our country and for their contributions to National Security. We all know that with more women at the top and more women at the table, better policy is made. It fosters global democracy, gender equality and peace. Thats our goal here, and its what we do best. I i would like to acknowledge or diplomatic colleagues who are here, both americans have served abroad, ambassado
Because we have a pretty full program. On behalf of myself, if my cochair, kevin were also, thank you all for your your support and for your being here today to honor three phenomenal women for your their service for your our country and for your their contributions to National Security. We all know that with more women at the top, and more women at the table, better policies made. It fosters global democracy gender equality, and peace. That is our goal here and that is what we do best. I would like to acknowledge our diplomatic colleagues who are here, both americans who have served abroad, ambassador nurses will as foreign ambassadors who are here today. Could we get all of the ambassadors and the deputy chief of admissions just to stay on for your a second. [applause] you all have been critical from our mission from the beginning and we really appreciate your support. I would also like to thank current and former Board Members including our founder and president meredith at ellis wh
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here. I would like to thank Ranking Member whitehouse, my friend and collaborator. Its great to be here at doing this together. I was just saying to him, i told him i would tell you it would bt nice to them in his edges because hes a top question. He will take you to test. I would like to thank the witnesses for their attendance today. I would also like to highlight two empty chairs today, which i say for saved for two and find witnesses who apparently dont show your commitment to discuss these issues. One chair is for tik tok. If you dont know what tik tok is, you should. Its a chinese owned social media platform so popular among teenagers that Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly spooked. For facebook, that fear is lost social media market share. For the rest of us, the fear is somewhat different. A company compromised byif the Chinese Communist party knows where your childrenws are
Country nobly. Welcome. I have a great pleasure of having Anders Rasmussen with us, former danish primer to, chairman of the Danish Liberal Party and secretarygeneral of nato. Most recently he is the ceo of rasmussen global as well as the founder of the alliance of democracies which we will get to a little later. Thrilled to see my old friend haynes here, the former Deputy National security adviser, more importantly the Deputy Director of the cia and she is currently at columbia university. Also with us today is michelle flournoy, the under secretary of defense for policy, the cofounder and ceo, the managing partner at west executive advisors helping a lot of small companies. I told them to make opening remarks. I will keep them very very brief because we had a long day and covered a lot of ground. I think we talked about research and applications and talent. This notion of the Global Positioning or geostrategic positioning is one that is founded on the notion of norms and values and t
This commission is so good. They produce 120 questions for me to interrogate this panel with. laughs so this is actually a ten hour session, not a one hour session. I am thrilled to be here with this panel, some old friends and new friends are with me on stage. To my immediate left his Andrea Thompson known to many of you. She was the former under secretary of state for arms control. She was the National Security adviser to the Vice President , and most importantly, 25 years of service, time in combat zones and certainly served her country nobly. So andrea, welcome. I have the great pleasure of having mr. Rasmussen with us, the former danish prime minister, chairman of the Danish Liberal Party and formerly the country generally of nato. Most recently though he is the ceo of rasmussen global as well is the founder of the alliance for democracies, or of democracies can which we will get you a little bit later. Thrilled to see my old friend Gabrielle Haines here, as many of you know she w