Robert good morning. Welcome to the Washington Institute. Satloff, the director. Im delighted to welcome all of you to this policy forum trip report from a trip that i, my three colleagues, and 50 members of the Washington Institutes board of trustees undertook just about one week ago completing it, to the gulf. Let me just very briefly introduce my colleagues up there. My immediate left, kate bauer, a former u. S. Treasury official Family Fellow at the institute. She will speak after me offering impressions specifically about our visit to abu dhabi. Lori plotkins boghardt. She is a former u. S. Government Intelligence Analyst who will be prepared in our q a to talk about all sorts of issues from counterterrorism and counter radicalization to social change going on in the gulf and at the far end of the table is mike singh,our former National Security Council Director who will also participate in our q a session talking about all sorts of issues under the sun trump Strategic Issues to u
Hes a graduate of monument college, will clark on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals. He represents clients in cases covering constitutional issues civil rights disputes, Administrative Law and a variety of other matters of civil lit dpagz. Hes argued cases before several courts of appeals and also before the u. S. Supreme court. Hes a member of the edward coke Appellate Court and a codirector of the Supreme Court appellate. Next to will is kyle duncan. Hes argued several federal cases. Hes a graduate of Lsu Law School and got an lml in law school. Before starting his own firm kyle was louisianas first solicitorgeneral and also served as council at the becket fund and recognized Public Interest law firm. Joe got his under graduate degree from harvard and jd and masters degree from the university of virginia. He also served as deputy General Council at the federal chukzs commission for three years. And for five years he served as an assistant solicitor general at the department of justi
Moderate the program. Again, welcome and look forward to a good discussion today. Thank you. Thank you so much, marcelle. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. Im pleased to be able to moderate this discussion and im very, very happy to have such distinguished colleagues with me to help enlighten us on this subject as marcelle said, one of critical interest and one of a timely nature at the moment given events in the region and here in washington as well. My introduction can be short. You can look for greater detail in the handy programs that were on your chair when you walked in, but allow me to please just briefly introduce kate bauer, who is the bloomingstein fellow at the Washington State institute and a former treasury official that served as the departments atake shea in jerusalem and in the gulf region. To her right is david cohen, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence agency and better known to me in his role at treasury before he joined the cia when he was under se
Hes a graduate of monument college, will clark on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals. He represents clients in cases covering constitutional issues civil rights disputes, Administrative Law and a variety of other matters of civil lit dpagz. Hes argued cases before several courts of appeals and also before the u. S. Supreme court. Hes a member of the edward coke Appellate Court and a codirector of the Supreme Court appellate. Next to will is kyle duncan. Hes argued several federal cases. Hes a graduate of Lsu Law School and got an lml in law school. Before starting his own firm kyle was louisianas first solicitorgeneral and also served as council at the becket fund and recognized Public Interest law firm. Joe got his under graduate degree from harvard and jd and masters degree from the university of virginia. He also served as deputy General Council at the federal chukzs commission for three years. And for five years he served as an assistant solicitor general at the department of justi
Moderate the program. Again, welcome and look forward to a good discussion today. Thank you. Thank you so much, marcelle. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. Im pleased to be able to moderate this discussion and im very, very happy to have such distinguished colleagues with me to help enlighten us on this subject as marcelle said, one of critical interest and one of a timely nature at the moment given events in the region and here in washington as well. My introduction can be short. You can look for greater detail in the handy programs that were on your chair when you walked in, but allow me to please just briefly introduce kate bauer, who is the bloomingstein fellow at the Washington State institute and a former treasury official that served as the departments atake shea in jerusalem and in the gulf region. To her right is david cohen, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence agency and better known to me in his role at treasury before he joined the cia when he was under se