Country. Cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. At each pious federal of the communications and hes our guest this week on the communicators. Chairman pious but about two years since he seen you, two years since the republicans have had the majority over at the fcc. What have you accomplished . Its been quiet. Im not done a lot. Its great to see you again, peter after some time and we been pretty active addressing our top priority which is closing the Digital Divide. The number of priorities as well advancing Public Safety and attacking robo calls and generally speaking its been an active commission and i like to think a productive one for the American People. Was on the agenda or docket for the remaining two years at least . Guest we will continue executing on our agenda closing the Digital Divide. That includes a number of different components. For one, the future we get more Broadband Internet access to all parts of the country. We recently finished a wireline
Frontrow seat. Unfolded andnaged, more. Our special guest dr. Yellen has her for ly lauded predictive accuracy. O if were fortunate shell tell us what the future holds. [laughter] were immensely pleased to welcome janet yellen to the offer an enter and to opportunity to spend an evening in the city of her birth. Yellen was born in brooklyn in bayended high school [applause] [applause] i said to her jokingly that line. Ould be an applause she earned a bachelors degree from brown an received her ph. D. From yale. After spending her early career in academia he served on the counsel of economic advisers from 1997 to 1999, and 2004 became president and c. E. O. For the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco. Selected to serve as vice chair of the federal governors in of 2010 and in 2014, became the as its man to serve chair. Mra [applause] thats a position that she february of this have as some of you may read in the newspaper. Shes currently distinguished residence with Economic Studies Pro
Welcome to the Atlantic Council. My name is william wechsler. I leave the Atlantic Council programs in the middle east. And you are here today. For a program of our continuing syria initiative. We very much enjoyed the first part of this program today anding about stability stabilization programs in eastern syria, talking about important work of the Atlantic Council. On documenting the atrocities that were done in guida. Now we are here to hear from ambassador james jeffries. James jeffrey. He currently serves as secretary special representative for syria engagement. He is the senior american diplomat with experience in Political Security and Energy Issues in the middle east. 19691970 six, he was u. S. Army infantry officer. In service in germany and vietnam. That thank you very much further one for being here and thank you most importantly ambassador jeffrey for joining us here today. [applause] mr. Jeffrey thank you. Thank you Atlantic Council for inviting me here. I will take a step
So, if were fortunate, shell tell us what the future holds. [laughter] were immensely pleased to welcome janet yellen to the Graduate Center and to offer an opportunity to spend an evening in the city of her birth. Dr. Yellen was born in brooklyn and attended high school in bay. They rich. They rich. School in bay ridge. [applause] i said to her jokingly that that would be an applause line. She earned a bachelors degree from brown an received her ph. D. From yale. After spending her early career in academia, he served on the white House Counsel of economic advisers from 1997 to 1999, and in 2004, became president and c. E. O. For the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco. She was selected to serve as vice chair of the Federal Reserve board of governors in 2010, and in 2014, became the first woman to serve as its chair. [applause] thats a position that she held until february of this year, as some of you may have read in the newspaper. [laughter] shes currently distinguished fellow in r
My name is william wechsler. I lead the Atlantic Councils programs in the middle east. You are here today for a program of our continuing syria initiative. The firstch enjoyed part of this program today, talking about stability and stabilization programs in eastern syria, talking about some important work of the Atlantic Council on documenting the atrocities that were done. Now we are here to hear from ambassador james jeffrey. He currently serves as secretary, special representative for syrian engagement. Ambassador jeffrey is the senior american diplomat with experience in energy and Security Issues in the middle east, turkey, germany and the balkans. He has held senior assignments in washington and abroad, including as Deputy National security adviser, United States ambassador to iraq, United States ambassador to turkey, United States ambassador to albania. In 2010 he was appointed to the highest rank in the u. S. Foreign service, career ambassador. Most importantly, he was also a u