EastWest Institute’s
Recognition Dinner2011 October 13, 2011 The United Arab Emirates Embassy Ballroom Washington, D.C.
Launching
EWI’s Economic Security Initiative
EWI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Co-Chairmen Francis Finlay Ross Perot, Jr.
Vice-Chairman
Armen Sarkissian
President and CEO John Edwin Mroz
Chairman of the Executive Committee Mark Maletz
Board Members
Martti Ahtisaari Tewodros Ashenafi Jerald T. Baldridge Peter Bonfield Peter Castenfelt Maria Livanos Cattaui Mark Chandler Angela Chen Michael Chertoff Craig Cogut David Cohen Joel Cowan Addison Fischer Adel Ghazzawi Melissa Hathaway Stephen B. Heintz Emil Hubinak John Hurley R. William Ide III Wolfgang Ischinger Anurag Jain James L. Jones, Jr. Haifa Al Kaylani Zuhal Kurt
Christine Loh Kevin McGovern Ma Zhengang Francis Najafi Ronald O’Hanley Yousef Al Otaiba William Owens Sarah Perot Louise Richardson John R. Robinson John F.W. Rogers George F. Russell, Jr. Ramzi H. Sanbar Leo Schenker Ikram ul-Majeed Sehgal Kanwal Sibal Henry J. Smith William Ury Pierre Vimont Alexander Voloshin Charles F. Wald Zhou Wenzhong
Chairman’s Council Henry Crumpton Valery Gergiev John Gunn Charles Hagel Frances Hesselbein Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Donald Johnston Joseph E. Robert Jr. C.H. Tung Antonio Vitorino Robert Ziff
Co-Founder
Ira D. Wallach (1909 – 2007)
Welcome
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e are delighted that all of you are here today to celebrate with us as we launch our Economic Security Initiative and recognize our esteemed honorees: the Russell 20-20 Association, IEEE and The Water Initiative. EWI’s Economic Security Initiative is a private–public, action-oriented program designed for East and West to co-create a set of responses to global economic challenges. We invite you to enjoy our program tonight, including films that showcase the ways in which each organization contributes to the security of our world.
As this event brings our 30th anniversary year to a close, we hope that you will all join us and support our efforts to build a safer and better world. Relax, network and enjoy the evening to the fullest.
FRANCIS FINLAY CO-CHAIRMEN
ROSS PEROT, JR.
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We are honored to welcome special remarks from Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr., and John C. Whitehead. Senator Casey is Chairman of both the Joint Economic Committee and the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs of the Foreign Relations Committee, which has jurisdiction over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel and the Middle East. John C. Whitehead is a distinguished American banker and civil servant and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State during the Reagan Administration. He is also a Director Emeritus of EWI. We are honored to have them join us tonight.
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Our Story
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WI is an independent international nonprofit institution created in 1980 to make the world a safer and better place. Thanks to our extensive global network, EWI is able to convene leaders from government, business and civil society in informal settings to discuss the world’s most intractable security problems. Our purpose is to build trust between the developed world and the Emerging East, influence policy and deliver innovative solutions.
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This year, EWI celebrates its 30th anniversary. Founded by John Edwin Mroz and Ira Wallach at the height of the Cold War, EWI initially worked to build bridges between Russia and the United States. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, EWI worked to foster economic stability in the region, encouraging international cooperation and helping prepare a new generation of leaders. We pioneered cross border cooperation in the Balkans and spun off 10 EWI centers in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the past decade, EWI’s operations have expanded to China, Southwest Asia and the Middle East. Our work focuses on the engagement of major powers, including Russia, China, India and the United States.
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One of EWI’s greatest strengths is our responsiveness to world events and willingness to undertake the newest – and toughest – security problems. Most recently, EWI took steps to help end the longstanding distrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan through a discreet series of meetings in Abu Dhabi and Kabul. We enabled Chinese and American political leaders to talk frankly in Washington, D.C., and Beijing about decision making and politically sensitive issues. We launched a truly worldwide cybersecurity initiative, bringing together top private sector, government and technical experts from more than 40 countries to protect our shared digital infrastructure. In the past 30 years, the world has changed dramatically, but one thing has remained the same: the EastWest Institute’s commitment to convene those who don’t work together, reframe issues and mobilize resources to make a difference.
The 80s: ending the cold war We were there when the Wall stood. A fiercely independent organization with strong links to policymakers, EWI built trust between leaders on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In 1984 EWI hosted the first ever Track 2 military-to-military dialogue meetings between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, among other steps to help end the Cold War.
The 90s: rebuilding societies We were there when the Wall fell, and localized conflicts erupted across Eastern Europe. From the Balkans to Russia, EWI worked to bring economic stability, foster entrepreneurship, and establish crossborder initiatives to promote regional cooperation. From Kaliningrad to Belgrade, several of our strongest initiatives became independent NGOs that still operate today.
We were there when the towers fell. Extending our geographic engagement, we worked to counter violent extremism, address cybersecurity and build strategic trust between China, Russia, India and the West. EWI operates the Abu Dhabi Process on cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, mobilizing key actors to take preventive action against a growing array of potential conflicts.
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The New Millennium: new challenges
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EastWest Institute’s
Recognition Dinner2011 Dinner Committee Chairmen: H.E. Yousef Al Otaiba Francis Finlay Ross and Sarah Perot Dallin Larsen
Vice Chairmen: Jerry and Emy Lou Baldridge Marshall Bennett Zuhal Kurt Mehmet Kurt Francis and Dionne Najafi
Evening Agenda 6.30 pm
Reception
7.25 pm Program and Dinner Master of Ceremonies, Francis Finlay Welcome Remarks by Ross Perot, Jr., and Francis Finlay Speaker Introduction by H.E. Yousef Al Otaiba
Remarks by Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.
First Course
Introduction of Economic Security Initiative by John Edwin Mroz
Presentation of the George F. Russell, Jr. Economic Security Award to the Russell 20-20 Association Accepted by Ralph Layman and Ron O’Hanley. Main Course Presentation of EWI Cybersecurity Award to the IEEE Accepted by Curtis Siller, Jack Howell, and Robert Kahn.
Speaker Introduction by Dallin Larsen, Founder and Chairman of MonaVie
Remarks by John C. Whitehead
Closing Remarks by Ross Perot, Jr.
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Presentation of Economic Security “Game Changer” Award to The Water Initiative Accepted by Kevin McGovern. Dessert
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Launching
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or 30 years, EWI has maintained a reputation for being at the cutting edge of traditional security, economics and preventive diplomacy. Our strength is in convening those who don’t yet work together from East and West on current and emerging threats and reframing and mobilizing resources to get things done. This initiative will complement and strengthen the economic security work in the other two initiatives of EWI, Strategic Trust Building and Regional Security.
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The decade ahead will be a time of profound uncertainty and widespread economic uncertainty. Political and social demands for economic growth and job creation worldwide are not being met. With the world’s population growing from six to nine billion by 2040, a burgeoning and demanding middle class arising around the globe and finite natural resources from water to energy, sustainability has become a major global security issue. The nexus of growth and sustainability presents immense challenges and opportunities that only a new form of East–West, private–public partnership can address. Meanwhile, the traditional global security providers of the United States and Europe are less able to assume the financial burdens of meeting the rising challenges to stability and peace. A new international system including collective security must be forged. ESI is designed to serve as a catalyst, to bring together those traditionally responsible for economic development with the security and investment communities in a “think and do” entrepreneurial model. There is an immediate need for East and West to co-create a new international order that helps assure economic security. Investors and the global private sector have a crucial role to play, as do other non-
traditional security actors. Traditional channels of discourse and policy making need to be augmented by outside catalysts capable of bringing together the best from the private and public sectors in the East and West to reframe issues, identify solutions and mobilize resources. ESI is designed to serve as such a catalyst – bringing together those traditionally responsible for economic development with the security and investment communities in a “think and do” entrepreneurial model required to move the ball down the field.
AREAS OF WORK > Cybersecurity: delivering international solutions for securing cyberspace. > Resource scarcity: especially at the nexus of water, food, energy, and raw materials. > Affordable security: building trust and confidence to generate new approaches for reducing the high economic burdens of international and internal security. > Sustainable security: finding the balance between sustainability and growth. > Jobs: with a 1.8 billion global jobs shortfall, new solutions must be devised to ensure a sustainable number of full time, formal jobs.
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> Building new private-public partnerships to protect the digital economy. > Working with China, Russia, India, the United States and the European Union on high-priority policy measures to protect the digital economy from crime and other emergencies. > Promoting the scaling up of ‘game changing’ ventures in the water-food-energy nexus in Southwest Asia. > In partnership with the Russell 20-20 Association, promoting investment-focused breakthroughs on growth and sustainability. > Producing a biannual “Economic Security Action Plan” to map progress and challenges.
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Honorees George F. Russell, Jr. economic security Award presented to
Russell 20-20 Association Since 1990, the Russell 20-20 Association has led some of the world’s most prestigious and economically powerful institutional investors in assessing investment opportunities in major emerging markets. Its members were among the first to make significant pension fund investments in developing markets.
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Accepting the award on behalf of the Executive Committee and Russell 20-20 Association are Ralph Layman, President and Chief Investment Officer, GE Asset Management-International Equities, and Ron O’Hanley, President, Asset Management and Corporate Services, Fidelity Investments
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RUSSELL 20-20 ASSOCIATION MEMBERS: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • BNY Mellon Asset Management • Bosera Asset Management Co., Ltd. • Cambrian Capital, L.P. • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board • Capital Group International • CN • Dodge & Cox • DuPont Capital Management • EQUEST Partners Limited • Fidelity Management Research • Francis Finlay • Gavea Investimentos • Gazfond • GE Asset Management • Howard Hughes Medical Institute • Korean National Pension Corporation • Lazard Asset Management • MMI Holdings • Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corporation • National Council for Social Security Fund • Old Mutual (South Africa) Limited • Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board • Principal Global Investors • Pyramis Global Advisors • Russell Investments • SeaBridge Investment Advisors • Siguler Guff & Company, LLC • Silver Creek Capital Management, LLC • Sompo Japan Niiponkoa AM • SUN Group • TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC • Tradewinds Global Investors • UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc • University of Washington • Wainwright Investment Counsel LLC • Wellington Management Company
Honorees EWI Cybersecurity Award presented to
IEEE IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.
Accepting the award on behalf of the IEEE are President Curtis Siller, Executive Director Jack Howell, and Robert Kahn, co-inventor of TCP and IP protocols - the fundamental protocols at the heart of the Internet.
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In 2009, in cooperation with EWI, the IEEE made its first foray into policy with the publication of the ROGUCCI report, a groundbreaking analysis of the international undersea communications cables that carry 99 percent of transcontinental Internet traffic. This report, which produced 12 actionable solutions by addressing these highly vulnerable networks as a single challenge instead of many minor challenges, has unquestionably altered the policy landscape for the better.
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Honorees Economic Security ‘Game Changer’ Award presented to
The Water Initiative The Water Initiative is a team of leading global business executives and renowned scientists who develop and deploy platform “point-of-drinking” water systems adapted to fit local conditions globally. The Initiative utilizes its co-created community-based local partnerships to penetrate and expand untapped channels of distribution.
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Accepting the award on behalf of The Water Initiative is Kevin McGovern, Chairman of The Water Initiative.
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Kevin McGovern Chairman, The Water Initiative
Speakers Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. U.S. Senator Bob Casey has made it his top priority to help create and incentivize the creation of familysustaining jobs and to help workers who lost their jobs through no fault of their own. As the Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Senator Casey is providing Pennsylvania and the nation with a stronger voice on economic policy and has focused on strategies to help American manufacturers create jobs. Senator Casey has voted to provide billions for tax cuts to encourage businesses to hire workers, and he voted for legislation that provided tens of billions in capital for small businesses to expand their operations. He has been a strong critic of unfair trade policies that put American manufacturing at a disadvantage and has repeatedly pushed for the U.S. government to take stronger action against China in response to the undervaluing of its currency and other policies that result in American job loss. He also voted for legislation to eliminate tax incentives corporations receive to send U.S. jobs overseas.
To protect our troops in Afghanistan, Senator Casey has been the Senate’s leader to increase international pressure to stop the flow of ammonium nitrate, a prime component in IEDs that have killed or wounded thousands of troops and civilians. Senator Casey is also working with the Department of Defense and State Department to make sure they have the tools they need to stop the IED assembly line. Throughout his public career, Senator Casey has been guided by the legacy of his father and the principle that: “All public service is a trust, given in faith and accepted in honor.”
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Senator Casey is the Chairman of the Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs Subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, which has jurisdiction over the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel and the Middle East. He is a leader in promoting nuclear security and combating the threat posed by terrorists obtaining nuclear material.
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Speakers
John C. Whitehead
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John Whitehead is an American banker and civil servant, currently a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and former chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. He also serves on the board of the International Rescue Committee, an international human rights organization.
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In 1987, he was awarded the IRC’s Freedom Award, along with Elie Wiesel. Other recipients of the award have included Winston Churchill, Hubert Humphrey, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Lech Walesa, Hamid Karzai, Madeleine Albright and Václav Havel. He has been Chairman of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps. He is also an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. Whitehead sits on the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity, which conducts research on illicit financial flows and the damaging effects they have on developing countries. Whitehead was one of the longest serving directors of the EastWest Institute. He received EWI’s Global Leadership Award in 2002 and continues to contribute to EWI’s activities on a regular basis.
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EastWest Institute’s
Recognition Dinner2011