Global Business Briefing with Mr. Matan Chorev, Principal Deputy Director of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff

On September 28, 2023, the Meridian Corporate Council hosted a Global Business Briefing with Mr. Matan Chorev, Principal Deputy Director of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. The discussion, moderated by Mr. Alex Mistri, Corporate Council Chair Emeritus and Vice President of Government and External Affairs at Hess Corporation, covered the ways the U.S. Department of State has evolved to address emerging geopolitical and economic shifts, and the growing role of the private sector in U.S. foreign policy.

About Mr. Chorev

Mr. Matan Chorev serves as the Principal Deputy Director of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief of Staff of the National Security and Foreign Policy team on the Biden-Harris Transition and as the foreign policy author of the 2020 Democratic Party Platform. From 2015-2020, he was Chief of Staff of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as speechwriter and advisor to Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns and as a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff. Mr. Chorev has also served as a Crisis, Governance, and Stabilization Foreign Service Officer at the United States Agency for International Development with assignments in Morocco and Yemen, and as a Rosenthal Fellow at the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning.

Here are some takeaways from the program:

The post-Cold War era has been characterized by a series of security, economic, climate, and health crises which have challenged some fundamental assumptions of U.S. foreign policy. The assumption of U.S. unipolarity, has been challenged by the diffusion of power both through emerging critical nations but also through the increasing role of the private sector in foreign policy. With countries less interested in positioning themselves on a particular side and more concerned with achieving their international policy and development goals, U.S. foreign policy needs to adapt by focusing more on how it can maximize opportunities with these hedging states and deliver on common priorities. The role of the private sector is key to this strategy, as there is a growing international demand for further investments by American companies, but also in training, expertise, and workforce and market access, to deal with international challenges such as addressing climate change and the energy transition or planning for Ukraine’s reconstruction.

This program was made possible through the support of:

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Global Business Briefing with Mr. Matan Chorev, Principal Deputy Director of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff | September 2023
Number of Visitors:	35
Number of Attendees:	35
Impact Areas:	Business and Trade, Foreign Policy
Program Areas:	Corporate Diplomacy
Partners:	Private Sector, Public Sector