Kathleen good evening everyone. I rented the National Security and in the Henry Kissinger chair here at ncis. We are here on ash wednesday, so i have not misapplied my makeup. [laughter] thank you also for braving the cold weather we have had in washington. More cold is going to come, i think, while we are here. But i hope you will be warmed by the conversation we have brought your tonight. I want to thank in particular the city, without whom we could not put on this event this evening. For smart women smart power we had put up our twitter and are broadcasting this live the a webcast. And it is my pleasure to introduce our two speakers, most important lead the first lady of afghanistan, rula ghani. As a native of lebanon, she met her husband, the president of afghanistan while they were students at American University in beirut. She is quite accomplished as having earned her masters degree in journalism from Columbia University in new york. He has worked extensively on womens and child
Billionaire. This is just over an hour. Mr. Clinton we have here a fascinating opening panel. I want to bring them out and talk about, not only the disruptions in a positive way that they have made in health care, why they do it and how they measure success in terms of people. So, let me first introduced the panelists. I would like to bring out Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of theranos. She dropped out of stanford to start this company, a blood Analytical Company that has more than 500 people employed and is valued at 9 billion. Not bad work. And, as you see, she is quite young. When i met her at Henry Kissingers birthday party, with George Scholz who was 92 years old, i thought anyone with that agent span has a bright future. Since im closer to 92 than her age, it looked like a wise move. Lets bring her out. Give her a hand. [applause] Joshua Kushner is the cofounder of oscar health. He wants to do something really interesting, which is reinvent Health Insurance. And how people intera