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Defining America's Future: The Role of Foreign Policy in 2024

Panel
Council members are invited to join us in person the week of the DNC in Chicago for a conversation with Ambassador Susan Rice and Rajiv Shah on the role of foreign policy in the 2024 election. 
Attendees wait for a speech from President Biden in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 28, 2024.
Aug
20
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Speakers
Susan E. Rice
Rajiv Shah
Gina McCarthy
Ivo H. Daalder
Date and Time
Doors Open: 1:30 pm
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  • Nonmembers (includes individual membership) $100
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About This Event

Republicans and Democrats are setting up camp in the Midwest this summer, hosting their respective conventions in Milwaukee and Chicago ahead of the 2024 presidential election. With November rapidly approaching, how is foreign policy shaping the parties’ campaign strategies? How are voters across the country thinking about America’s role in the world? Join the Council for a conversation with Susan Rice and Rajiv Shah while they’re in town for the DNC as we examine how global issues could sway the election's outcome and redefine the US position on the world stage.

About the Speakers
Susan E. Rice
Former National Security Advisor and US Ambassador to the United Nations
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Susan E. Rice is a distinguished diplomat and policymaker who served as national security advisor from 2013 to 2017 and as US ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013. Most recently, she was domestic policy advisor to President Biden.
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President, The Rockefeller Foundation
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Rajiv Shah is the president of The Rockefeller Foundation and previously served as the administrator of USAID, where he secured bipartisan support for the Global Food Security Act and Electrify Africa Act, led the US response to the Haiti earthquake and West African Ebola pandemic, and served on the National Security Council.
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Gina McCarthy
Former White House National Climate Advisor and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
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Gina McCarthy served as the first White House national climate advisor from 2021 to 2022 and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017. A leading voice on public health and the environment, she currently serves as a senior advisor at Bloomberg Philanthropies, managing co-chair of the America Is All In Coalition, and senior fellow at Tufts University's Climate Policy Lab.
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CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
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