The fellow in the International Program here at csis. We are pleased to welcome back dr. Kathleen hicks, the deputy secretary of defense. Shes a former Senior Vice President here at csis and former director of the National Security program. Deputy secretary hicks previously served at the pentagon as the Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy and as deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy plans and forces. This mornings conversation is moderated by csis senior associate nina easton. Our speaker here is possible thanks to the gracious funding of our Founding Partner city and we are very grateful for cities continued support now entering its seventh year. Its my great pleasure to welcome candy wolf. Candy. Candy thank you, bev and thank you for joining us online this morning for what will be another great event in the smart women smart power series for 2021 and happy friday to everyone. At city were proud to call ourselves the leading global bank as we are present in
Program here at csis. We are pleased to welcome back dr. Kathleen hicks, the deputy secretary of defense. Shes a former Senior Vice President here at csis and former director of the National Security program. Deputy secretary hicks previously served at the pentagon as the Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy and as deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy plans and forces. This mornings conversation is moderated by csis senior associate nina easton. Our speaker here is possible thanks to the gracious funding of our Founding Partner city and we are very grateful for cities continued support now entering its seventh year. Its my great pleasure to welcome candy wolf. Candy. Candy thank you, bev and thank you for joining us online this morning for what will be another great event in the smart women smart power series for 2021 and happy friday to everyone. At city were proud to call ourselves the leading global bank as we are present in more than 100 countries. We talk
Smart women, smart power initiative. We are pleased to welcome back dr. Kathleen hicks, deputy secretary of defense. Shes a former Senior Vice President here at csis and former director of the International Security program. Deputy secretary hicks previously served at the pentagon as Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy and as deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy plans and forces. This mornings conversation is moderated by csis senior associate nina easton. Our Speaker Series here is possible thanks to the gracious funding of our founding partner, and we are grate citi and we are grateful for their continued support now for seven years. It is my pleasure to welcome candy wolf. Candy thank you for joining us for another great event in the smart women, smart power series in 2021. Happy friday to everyone. At citi were proud to call ourselves the leading global bank as were present in more than 120 countries. We believe it gives us a unique insight into the econo
whether you re joining us in the room here, and i lot of you are, or your joining us online, thank you for being here our smart women, smart power event tonight. we re excited and delighted that seven ambassadors currently representing their countries here in washington can join us for a look at the view of the u.s. from abroad. and as you may have noticed, they happen to all be female ambassadors and they are just a subset of those representing their countries here in washington. before we begin, i ll get to introducing the ambassadors in a few moments, but first i want to give you a few social media reminders. we hope you re following us on twitter @smart women and there should have been hand outs. hopefully you got them with all the ambassadors twitter handles and if you re live tweeting we ask that you use the #cse live. we do have a itunes course with our smart women events. we hope that you re following those as well. our smart women smart power speaker series wouldn t
good evening, everyone. whether you re joining us in the room here and a lot of you are, or you re joining us online, thank you for being here for our smart women, smart power event tonight. we re delighted that seven ambassadors currently representing their countries here in washington can join us for a look at the view of the u.s. from abroad. as you may have noticed they happen to all be female ambassadors, a subset of those representing their countries here in washington. before we begin, i ll get to introducing the ambassadors in a few moments. first i want to give you a few social media reminders. we hope you re following us on twitter @smart women. there should have been handouts with all the ambassadors twitter handles. if you re live tweeting use the #tag csi live. we have a smart women podcast with our smart women events. we hope you re following those, as well. our smart women smart power speaker series wouldn t be possible without the support of citi. thank you v