Good morning. Welcomed to the Heritage Foundation in our auditorium. We also welcome those joining us on our heritage. Org website and the cspan network this morning. For those inhouse we ask that you check to be sure our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. For those watching online you are always welcome to send questions or comments emailing speaker heritage. Org and we will post todays program on the heritage home page for everyones future reference as well. Welcoming our guests and introducing our program is our active Vice President for research and recently served heritage as Vice President of policy studies and director of davis institute. The Founding Editor of index over Economic Freedom which has become a signature heritage publication from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organization affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holm. Kim. Thank you. Three minutes. Good morning, everyo
Good morning. Welcomed to the Heritage Foundation in our auditorium. We also welcome those joining us on our heritage. Org website and the cspan network this morning. For those inhouse we ask that you check to be sure our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. For those watching online you are always welcome to send questions or comments emailing speaker heritage. Org and we will post todays program on the heritage home page for everyones future reference as well. Welcoming our guests and introducing our program is our active Vice President for research and recently served heritage as Vice President of policy studies and director of davis institute. The Founding Editor of index over Economic Freedom which has become a signature heritage publication from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organization affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holm. Kim. Thank you. Three minutes. Good morning, everyo
Thing for these guys. The last year when we were wrapping up the summit and we were talking, kind of saying jeez how well that went and doing selfcongratulations. We got serious. And said to ourselves what do we need to do better . And we will ask you later after we wrap up to dwif us your feed back for this year. Last year we were going through that, a cup of things were apparent to us quite quickly. One was as tish likes to remind me, we need to always be thinking about diversity on the panel. And well continue to do better on that. The second thing that we thought about was you know, this intelligence business is increaseingly an international business. And so we knew we wanted to do something that brought an International Flavor to the summit. This year. I wont preach, but the business of intelligence is no longer about just secrets. Its a Global Business now. And no nation can maintain the Global Awareness that they want in the Information Age without corporation. We gt a got a go
The last year when we were wrapping up the summit and we were talking, kind of saying jeez how well that went and doing selfcongratulations. We got serious. And said to ourselves what do we need to do better . And we will ask you later after we wrap up to dwif us your feed back for this year. Last year we were going through that, a cup of things were apparent to us quite quickly. One was as tish likes to remind me, we need to always be thinking about diversity on the panel. And well continue to do better on that. The second thing that we thought about was you know, this intelligence business is increaseingly an international business. And so we knew we wanted to do something that brought an International Flavor to the summit. This year. I wont preach, but the business of intelligence is no longer about just secrets. Its a Global Business now. And no nation can maintain the Global Awareness that they want in the Information Age without corporation. We gt a got a good start. We need o kn
A big step is this though specifically for saudi arabia i would definitely say that its a very big staff and its one of the most visible signs. You know modernization efforts by saudi government to date even though there have been a lot of other reforms that have been happening in the last twenty years and your own man and the crown prince as well this is definitely the one that has made global headlines are rightfully so because like you said everybody arabia is is the only country in the world where well need have until two thousand and seventeen been banned from driving so that really big deal its a big deal i lam its been on the table for a while now the authorities have always pushed back against attempts to try and change the situation when it came to women being able to drive what prompted this decision now. Im not sure if this decision was prompted at this very moment in time there might be other ideological and political reasons why it was prompted at this moment in time but w