Monday in Washington June 1, 2014

25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre - June 4th 

70th Anniversary of D-Day - June 6th

THE EVOLUTION OF TREASURY'S NATIONAL SECURITY ROLE. 6/2, 8:30am-2:00pm. Sponsors: Department of the Treasury; and CSIS. Speakers: David Cohen, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Department of the Treasury: Jacob Lew Secretary, Department of the Treasury; John Hamre President, CEO, and Pritzker Chair, CSIS; Tom Donilon, Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Former National Security Adviser; Stephen Hadley, Chairman of the Board, US Institute of Peace and Former National Security Adviser; Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News; Stuart Levey, Chief Legal Officer, HSBC Holdings and Former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence; Keith Alexander, Former Director of the National Security Agency; Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, Wilson Center and Former Representative (D-CA); Michèle Flournoy, CEO, Center for a New American Security and Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent, New York Times; Denis McDonough, White House Chief of Staff; Reuben Jeffery III, Senior Adviser, CSIS, CEO, Rockefeller & Co., and Former Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, & Agricultural Affairs; and Juan Zarate, Senior Adviser, CSIS, Former Deputy National Security Adviser, and Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.

THE BENGHAZI SELECT COMMITTEE: MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED. 6/2, 10:00-11:00am. Sponsor: Heritage. Speakers: Peter Brooke, Senior Fellow, Heritage s; Helle Dale, Senior Fellow, Heritage; Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage; and Nile Gardiner, Director, Center for Freedom, Heritage.

DEMOCRATIZING AND GLOBALIZING U.S.-KOREA RELATIONS. 6/2, 10:30am-Noon. Sponsor: Brookings, CEAP. Speakers: Katharine Moon, Senior Fellow and SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution; Moderator: Richard Bush, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John Thornton China Center; Introduction: Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution; Opening Remarks: Neung Koo Kim, President, SK USA, Inc.; Hyun-seok Yu, President, Korea Foundation; Discussant: Harry Harding, Dean, Professor of Public Policy and Politics, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia; Closing Remarks: H.E. Ho-Young Ahn, Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Korea. 

TELLING TRUTH TO POWER: OPPOSITION DUMA MEMBER ILYA PONOMAREV ON UKRAINE, RUSSIA, AND THE WEST. 6/2, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsor: Heritage. Speakers: Ilya Ponomarev, Member, State Duma of the Russian Federation; and Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, Heritage.