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SUMMARY:Nuancing National Security: Diplomacy’s Role in National Security
DESCRIPTION:  \nClick Here to Register\n\n\nA central mandate of any national government is national security\, but the responsibility involves much more than traditional military defense capabilities. Today\, while balancing military and diplomacy priorities\, national governments assess and combat threats in cyberspace and outer space\, water supplies and power grids\, food production and energy chains. In this six-part virtual series\, the International Relations Council will take a deep dive into the national security arena\, offering historical context and global perspective for core dimensions of national security and exploring the risks\, priorities\, and tactics on the radar of U.S. security policy. \nAbout the Speaker\n \n\n \nMona Yacoubian’s work centers on conflict analysis and prevention in the Middle East\, with a specific focus on Syria\, Iraq\, and Lebanon. In 2019\, she served as executive director of the Congressionally-appointed Syria Study Group\, which USIP was mandated to facilitate. Additional research interests include violent extremism\, fragility and resilience.\n\n\nYacoubian joined the U.S. Institute of Peace after serving as deputy assistant administrator in the Middle East Bureau at USAID from 2014 to 2017\, where she had responsibility for Iraq\, Syria\, Jordan and Lebanon. Prior to joining USAID\, Yacoubian was a senior advisor at the Stimson Center focusing on the Arab uprisings with an emphasis on Syria. Prior to joining the Stimson Center\, she served as a special advisor on the Middle East at the U.S. Institute of Peace\, where her work focused on Lebanon and Syria as well as broader issues related to democratization in the Arab world. From 1990 to 1998\, Yacoubian served as the North Africa analyst in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.\n \nYacoubian was a Fulbright scholar in Syria where she studied Arabic at the University of Damascus from 1985 to 1986. She has held an international affairs fellowship with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and is currently a CFR member. She Yacoubian earned a master’s in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s from Duke University.\n \n\nSupporting Series Sponsor\nButtonwood Financial Group\, LLC\n \nCyprienne Simchowitz & Jerry White\n\nNuancing National Security Series Schedule\nAll programs will take place from 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT (6:30-7:30 p.m. ET)\n \n\nWednesday\, August 18: Biological and Agricultural Security\nWednesday\, August 25: The 21st Century Military \nThursday\, September 9: Diplomacy’s Role in National Security\nMonday\, September 13: Transnational Security Issues\nMonday\, September 20: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Resilience \nMonday\, September 27: Energy Security
URL:https://globalcincinnati.org/event/nuancing-national-security-diplomacys-role-in-national-security/
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SUMMARY:Nuancing National Security: Transnational Security Issues
DESCRIPTION:  \nClick Here to Register\n\n\nA central mandate of any national government is national security\, but the responsibility involves much more than traditional military defense capabilities. Today\, while balancing military and diplomacy priorities\, national governments assess and combat threats in cyberspace and outer space\, water supplies and power grids\, food production and energy chains. In this six-part virtual series\, the International Relations Council will take a deep dive into the national security arena\, offering historical context and global perspective for core dimensions of national security and exploring the risks\, priorities\, and tactics on the radar of U.S. security policy. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n \nAndrea Kendall-Taylor is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She works on national security challenges facing the United States and Europe\, focusing on Russia\, authoritarianism and threats to democracy\, and the state of the Transatlantic alliance.  \nPrior to joining CNAS\, Andrea served for eight years as a senior intelligence officer. From 2015 to 2018\, she was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). In this role Andrea led the U.S. intelligence community’s strategic analysis on Russia\, represented the IC in interagency policy meetings\, provided analysis to the National Security Council\, and briefed the DNI and other senior staff for White House and international meetings. Prior to joining the NIC\, Andrea was a senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where she worked on Russia and Eurasia\, the political dynamics of autocracies\, and democratic decline.\n \nAndrea is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Her work has been published in numerous political science and policy journals\, including the Journal of Peace Research\, Democratization\, Journal of Democracy\, Foreign Affairs\, the Washington Post\, the Washington Quarterly\, and Foreign Policy.\n \nAndrea received her B.A. in politics from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California\, Los Angeles. She was a Fulbright scholar in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan\, where she conducted dissertation research on oil and autocracy.\n \nSupporting Series Sponsor\nButtonwood Financial Group\, LLC\n \nCyprienne Simchowitz & Jerry White\n\n\n\nNuancing National Security Series Schedule\nAll programs will take place from 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT (6:30-7:30 p.m. ET)\n \n\nWednesday\, August 18: Biological and Agricultural Security\nWednesday\, August 25: The 21st Century Military \nThursday\, September 9: Diplomacy’s Role in National Security\nMonday\, September 13: Transnational Security Issues\nMonday\, September 20: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Resilience \nMonday\, September 27: Energy Security
URL:https://globalcincinnati.org/event/nuancing-national-security-transnational-security-issues/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210920T183000
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SUMMARY:Nuancing National Security: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Resilience
DESCRIPTION:  \nClick Here to Register\n\n\nA central mandate of any national government is national security\, but the responsibility involves much more than traditional military defense capabilities. Today\, while balancing military and diplomacy priorities\, national governments assess and combat threats in cyberspace and outer space\, water supplies and power grids\, food production and energy chains. In this six-part virtual series\, the International Relations Council will take a deep dive into the national security arena\, offering historical context and global perspective for core dimensions of national security and exploring the risks\, priorities\, and tactics on the radar of U.S. security policy. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n \n \nAs head of the National Risk Management Center\, Kolasky has the responsibility to develop integrated analytic capability to analyze risk to critical infrastructure and work across the national community to reduce risk. As part of that\, he co-chairs the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force and leads CISA’s efforts to support development of a secure 5G network.  He also serves on the Executive Committee for the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and is the Chair of the High-Level Risk Forum for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).  \n \nKolasky’s current position is the culmination of years of risk and resilience experience. He most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection (IP)\, where he led the coordinated national effort to partner with industry to reduce the risk posed by acts of terrorism and other cyber or physical threats to the nation’s critical infrastructure\, including election infrastructure.\n \nKolasky has served in a number of other senior leadership roles for DHS\, including acting Deputy Under Secretary for NPPD before it became CISA and the Director of the DHS Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure Integrated Task Force to implement Presidential Policy Directive 21 on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience\, as well as Executive Order 13636 on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.\n \nHe is also the former Assistant Director for the Office of Risk Management Analysis at DHS where he was responsible for developing DHS’s formative policies and processes for risk management\, including the DHS Risk Management Fundamentals and Risk Lexicon. Prior to joining DHS\, he was a journalist and an entrepreneur. He helped start two of the first public policy web sites and served as the Managing Editor for IntellectualCapital.com.\n \nKolasky joined the Federal government in 2008 after six years as a management consultant. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1994 and from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2002.\n\n\n\nSupporting Series Sponsor\nButtonwood Financial Group\, LLC\n\nCyprienne Simchowitz & Jerry White\n\n\n  \nNuancing National Security Series Schedule\nAll programs will take place from 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT\n\n\nWednesday\, August 18: Biological and Agricultural Security\nWednesday\, August 25: The 21st Century Military \nThursday\, September 9: Diplomacy’s Role in National Security\nMonday\, September 13: Transnational Security Issues\nMonday\, September 20: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Resilience \nMonday\, September 27: Energy Security
URL:https://globalcincinnati.org/event/nuancing-national-security-cybersecurity-and-infrastructure-resilience/
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Speakers: An Introduction to Blockchain\, Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance with Andreas Park
DESCRIPTION:Please register for this free program. After registering you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom webinar login information. \nAbout the Program\n \nProfessor Andreas Park will provide a brief introduction to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies\, providing an overview of some of the tools and apps that are available in the new world of decentralized finance. Park has recently been part of a research effort for the Bank of Canada on the design of a central-bank issued digital Loonie\, and he will provide an overview of how this development together with advances in blockchain technology drive broader changes in the financial industry internationally\, and discuss what changes we might expect over the next decade. He will discuss what cryptocurrencies might allow us to do and how they are being used (and misused) in the movement of wealth around the world.\n \nAbout the Speaker \nAndreas Park is a Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto in the Department of Management with a cross appointment to the Finance area at the U of T Rotman School of Business. He has  been a University of Toronto faculty member since 2003. His research covers empirical topics\, such as the market impact of maker-taker pricing\, dark orders\, and high frequency trading\, and theoretical topics\, such as herd behavior in financial markets and the impact of trading mechanisms. Andreas has served as Co-Director of the Master of Financial Economics program at University of Toronto\, and he teaches courses on Market Microstructure\, Trading\, Investments\, Asset Pricing\, and Corporate Finance. His current research focuses mostly on the impact of high frequency trading and recent market structure changes in Canadian markets. Andreas is currently a member of the Ontario Security Commission’s Market Structure Advisory Committee. He earned both his masters degree and doctorate from Cambridge University in England. \nAbout the Moderator \nDonald Cassell\, a member of the ICWA Board of Directors\, is a senior fellow at the Sagamore institute and director of the Africa program and Liberian initiatives there. He also oversaw the development of the Indiana-Africa Connections project\, a database of over 250 Hoosier organizations with ties to Africa. Additionally he serves as the host of Sagamore‘s fellows program. Previous to his role at Sagamore\, Mr. Cassell spent 20 years working as an architect in Indianapolis. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Construction Specification Institute (CSI). A native of Liberia\, Mr. Cassell graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston\, Massachusetts. Mr. Cassell also studied at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, where he received his master of divinity. \nThank you to our generous sponsor
URL:https://globalcincinnati.org/event/distinguished-speakers-an-introduction-to-blockchain-cryptocurrency-and-decentralized-finance-with-andreas-park/
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Diversity,Global Education,Virtual,Virtual Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T183000
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SUMMARY:Nuancing National Security: Energy Security
DESCRIPTION:  \nClick Here to Register\n\n\nA central mandate of any national government is national security\, but the responsibility involves much more than traditional military defense capabilities. Today\, while balancing military and diplomacy priorities\, national governments assess and combat threats in cyberspace and outer space\, water supplies and power grids\, food production and energy chains. In this six-part virtual series\, the International Relations Council will take a deep dive into the national security arena\, offering historical context and global perspective for core dimensions of national security and exploring the risks\, priorities\, and tactics on the radar of U.S. security policy.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n \n\n \nAmbassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan (2015 – 2018)\, Bob Cekuta has long and extensive experience as a top level U.S. diplomat. Deeply engaged in advancing high-profile international energy projects\, trade policy initiatives and agreements\, commercial sales\, and other complex international security matters\, Amb. Cekuta’s positions in the State Department included Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy\, Sanctions\, and Commodities. \n \n\nHis overseas postings included the U.S. Embassies in Berlin and Tokyo where he oversaw the full range of economic\, commercial\, nonproliferation\, and scientific relations. In addition\, Bob was Deputy Chief of Mission in Albania and held positions in Vienna\, Baghdad\, Kabul\, Johannesburg\, and Sana’a\, Yemen. He established the Economic Policy Analysis and Public Diplomacy Office in the State Department’s Bureau for Economic and Business Affairs\, and served on the boards of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the International Energy Agency (IEA)\, where he also chaired the IEA Board’s Standing Group on Long-term Cooperation charged with anticipating global energy developments.\n \n\nDuring his career with the State Department Ambassador Cekuta received nine Senior Foreign Service Performance Awards\, four Superior Honor Awards\, five Meritorious Honor Awards\, and the Career Achievement Award. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service\, the Thunderbird School of Global Management\, and the National War College.\n\n\n \nSupporting Series Sponsor\n\nButtonwood Financial Group\, LLC\nCyprienne Simchowitz & Jerry White\n\n\n \nNuancing National Security Series Schedule\nAll programs will take place from 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT\n\n\nWednesday\, August 18: Biological and Agricultural Security\nWednesday\, August 25: The 21st Century Military\nThursday\, September 9: Diplomacy’s Role in National Security\nMonday\, September 13: Transnational Security Issues\nMonday\, September 20: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Resilience\nMonday\, September 27: Energy Security
URL:https://globalcincinnati.org/event/nuancing-national-security-energy-security/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Seminar
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SUMMARY:Local Solutions to Global Challenges: Creating a Green Cincinnati
DESCRIPTION:7am – Local Solutions to Global Challenges: Creating a Green Cincinnati\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\nAbout the Program: In August\, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming report on the current status of the environment and the impact that it will have on humanity. Around the world\, youth have become outspoken advocates in demanding that governments\, businesses\, and nonprofit organizations make changes to ensure the sustainability of the planet. In this session\, you will be inspired to “think globally and act locally.” Speakers from the City of Cincinnati’s Office of Environment & Sustainability and other area nonprofits will discuss the Green Cincinnati Plan\, a bold vision to put Cincinnati on a path to 100% renewable energy and advance the sustainability\, equity\, and resilience of our city. Be inspired to advocate for climate issues affecting your own community and learn more about volunteer opportunities to assist in the work that local leaders are doing to create a more sustainable future.
URL:https://globalcincinnati.org/event/local-solutions-to-global-challenges-creating-a-green-cincinnati/
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CATEGORIES:Global Education,International Education Summit,US Education,Virtual,Virtual Seminar
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