Hey, come on down to the CNAS annual policy hoedown on June 2nd
We’re having the Washington equivalent of a barn-raising: A daylong policy symposium, followed by drinks and carrying on at night. Here are some of the nerd celebrities who will be speaking: Ambassador Anne Patterson, former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Rand Beers, Undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security Admiral ...
We're having the Washington equivalent of a barn-raising: A daylong policy symposium, followed by drinks and carrying on at night.
We’re having the Washington equivalent of a barn-raising: A daylong policy symposium, followed by drinks and carrying on at night.
Here are some of the nerd celebrities who will be speaking:
Ambassador Anne Patterson, former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
Rand Beers, Undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security
Admiral Patrick Walsh, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
Bing West, author of The Wrong War, The Strongest Tribe, and The Village
Max Kelly, former Chief Security Officer at Facebook
Jim Miller, Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Associate Editor at the Washington Post and author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Ellen Nakashima, National News Reporter at the Washington Post
Steve Coll, President of the New America Foundation and author of Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens
Shadi Hamid, Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center
Karen House, former Publisher of the Wall Street Journal
Plus the CNAS gang
For more info and to try to get in, click here.
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