Ambassador Wendy Sherman to Deliver Feature Address at the Meridian Global Leadership Summit, October 14, 2016
October 11, 2016
Media Contact:
To cover this event or to arrange interviews,
please contact Monique McSween
at 202-631-1556 or mmcsween@meridian.org.
For more information visit meridian.org/summit.
MEDIA ADVISORY
WHAT:
Meridian Global Leadership Summit - The 5th Annual Global Leadership Summit will bring together top leaders in the government, diplomatic, business, and media sectors to discuss “Restoring Confidence in Leaders and Institutions”. Leaders will also discuss the latest findings of the Gallup World Poll, “Rating World Leadership – What People Worldwide Think”, which will be unveiled at the Summit. This data, collected in more than 160 countries around the world, track and analyze how people view their leadership, as well as the leadership of China, the European Union, Germany, Russia and the United States.
WHEN:
Friday, October 14, 2016, 8:30AM to 11:00AM
SPEAKERS:
- Ambassador Wendy Sherman, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, served as the lead negotiator in the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal. Ambassador Sherman is a Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group and Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for science and International Affairs;
- His Excellency Dr. Hamdullah Mohib, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States;
- The Honorable Matthew W. Barzun, Ambassador of the United States to the United Kingdom;
- His Excellency Emanuel Gonzalez-Revilla, Ambassador of Panama to the United States;
- Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group;
- Don Baer, Worldwide Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Burson Marsteller;
- Brian Kelly, Editor and Chief Content Officer, U.S. News & World Report;
- Jon Clifton, Managing Director, Gallup Global Analytics;
- Megan Beyer, Executive Director, President’s Committee for the Arts & the Humanities;
- Ambassador Stuart W. Holliday, President and CEO, Meridian International Center;
- Gargee Ghosh, Director, Development and Policy Finance, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
VENUE:
The Pavilion, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004
CONTACT:
To cover this event or to arrange interviews, please contact Monique McSween at 202-631-1556 or mmcsween@meridian.org. For more information visit meridian.org/summit.