2020 Virtual Gala

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Celebrating 46 years of Diplomacy in Action

NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY 2020 VIRTUAL GALA SPONSORS

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Thomas S. Hexner

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York

Brendan R. McGuire, Esq.

Jeffrey and Mary Lou Shafer

Donald and Genie Rice

Donald Zagoria

John V. Connorton, Jr., Esq.

Richard and Elizabeth Howe

The Ronald and Jo Carole

Lauder Foundation

Honorable Jeffrey R. Shafer - Chairman of the Board

Honorable Nancy E. Soderberg - Vice Chairman of the Board

Ambassador (ret.) Susan M. Elliott - President and CEO

Richard R. Howe, Esq. - Executive Vice President & Treasurer

Donald S. Rice, Esq. - Senior Vice President

Professor Donald Zagoria - Senior Vice President

John V. Connorton, Jr., Esq. - Secretary

Dr. George D. Schwab - President Emeritus

Grace Kennan Warnecke - Chair Emeritus

Honorable David Adelman - Trustee

Honorable Donald M. Blinken - Trustee

Andrew L. Busser - Trustee

Steven Chernys - Trustee

Honorable Karl W. Eikenberry - Trustee

Thomas S. Hexner - Trustee

Kimberly Kriger - Trustee

Brendan R. McGuire, Esq.- Trustee

Honorable Thomas Pickering - Trustee

Nicholas R. Thompson - Trustee

National Committee on American Foreign PolicyBoard of Trustees

NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY MISSION STATEMENT

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Inc. (NCAFP)identifies, articulates, and helps advance American foreign policyinterests from a nonpartisan perspective within the framework ofpolitical realism. Founded in 1974 by Professor Hans J. Morgenthauand others, the NCAFP is a nonprofit policy organization dedicatedto the resolution of conflicts that threaten U.S. interests. The NCAFPfulfills its mission through Track I �⁄� and Track II diplomacy. Theseclosed-door and off-the-record conferences provide opportunitiesfor senior U.S. and foreign officials, subject experts, and scholars toengage in discussions designed to defuse conflict, build confidence,and resolve problems. Believing that an informed public is vital toa democratic society, the National Committee offers educational

programs and issues a variety of publications that address securitychallenges facing the United States.

EVENING PROGRAM

WelcomeMs. JACQUELINE ADAMS

Emmy Award-winning Former CBS CorrespondentEvening Host

Opening RemarksAMBASSADOR (ret.) SUSAN M. ELLIOTT

President & Chief Executive OfficerNational Committee on American Foreign Policy

Special RemarksDR. HENRY A. KISSINGER

Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc &Former Secretary of State

HANS J. MORGENTHAU AWARDDR. ROBERT M. GATES

Former Secretary of Defense &Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Presented By

The Honorable JEFFREY R. SHAFERChairman of the Board

National Committee on American Foreign Policy

Question & Answer DR. ROBERT M. GATES

Former Secretary of Defense &Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Moderated By

Ms. JACQUELINE ADAMSEmmy Award-winning Former CBS Correspondent

Before becoming secretary of defense in 2006, Gates was the president of Texas A&M University,one of the nation’s largest universities. Prior to assuming the Texas A&M presidency on August 1,2002, he served as interim dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service atTexas A&M from 1999 to 2001.

Gates joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1966 and spent nearly 27 years as an intelligenceprofessional. During that period, he spent nearly nine years at the National Security Council, theWhite House, serving four presidents of both political parties

Gates served as director of Central Intelligence from 1991 until 1993. He is the only career officerin CIA's history to rise from entry-level employee to director. He served as deputy director ofCentral Intelligence from 1986 until 1989 and as assistant to the president and deputy nationalsecurity adviser at the White House from January 20, 1989 until November 6, 1991, for PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush.Gates has been awarded the National Security Medal, the Presidential CitizensMedal, has three times received the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, and hasthree times received CIA's highest award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal.

He is the author of four books, Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World, published in 2020, A Passion For Leadership: Lessons onChange and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service, published in 2016, Duty: Memoirs of aSecretary at War, published in 2014, and From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, published in 1996.

Gates currently is a partner in the consulting firm, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel, LLC, withformer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former National Security Advisor StephenHadley. He is a member of the national executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, where heserved as president of the National Eagle Scout Association from 1996-2006 and NationalPresident of the Boy Scouts of America from 2014-2016.

Dr. Robert M. GatesRobert Gates served as the 22nd secretary of defense(2006-2011) and is the only secretary of defense in U.S.history to be asked to remain in that office by a newlyelected President. President Barack Obama was theeighth president Gates served. He previously servedunder President George W. Bush.

On Gates's last day in office, President Barack Obamaawarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom,America's highest civilian honor.

Dr. Robert M. Gates (continued)

He has also served on the board of directors of Starbucks, the board of directors and executive committee of the American Council on Education, the board of directors of theNational Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.

A native of Kansas, Gates received his bachelor's degree from the College of William & Mary, hismaster's degree in history from Indiana University and his doctorate in Russian and Soviethistory from Georgetown University. In 1967, he was commissioned asecond lieutenant in theU.S. Air Force and served as an intelligence officer at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

In February 2012, Gates was installed as chancellor of William & Mary. He is the first William &Mary alumnus in the modern era to serve as chancellor of the college.

In May of 2018, Gates succeeded General Colin Powell as National Chairman of theEisenhower Fellowships.

Ambassador (retired) Susan M. Elliott is President & CEO of the National Committee onAmerican Foreign Policy, a position she assumed in August 2018. Ambassador Elliott is anaccomplished diplomat who held a variety of leadership positions at the U.S. Department ofState during her 27 year career as a Foreign Service officer.

From 2015 to 2017, Ambassador Elliott served as the Civilian Deputy and Foreign PolicyAdvisor to the Commander of the United States European Command. Ambassador Elliottwas the U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan from 2012 to 2015. Prior to her Ambassadorialappointment, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of South andCentral Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State.

Ambassador Elliott worked in a variety of overseas and Washington-based assignments.Her previous overseas assignments include Moscow, Russia (twice); Belfast, NorthernIreland; Athens, Greece; and Lima, Peru. In Washington, Ambassador Elliott worked on thestaff of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Earlier in her career she reported onconflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union when she worked in the Office of theCoordinator for Regional Conflicts in the New Independent States.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Ambassador (ret.) Susan M. Elliott

Jeffrey R. Shafer Is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Committee on American ForeignPolicy. He is a Member of the Management Board of S&P Global Ratings. He is Chairman of the Boardof mCD IP corporation, a fintech startup offering a new deposit product to provide liquidity at lowercost in the post financial crisis bank regulatory environment.

From 2011 to 2019 he provided advice on economic and political developments as principal of JRSHAFERINSIGHT.

From 1997 to 2011 he was Vice Chairman of Global Banking in Citigroup and predecessor institutions. Heserved as Senior Asia Pacific Officer in New York. Prior to this, he established and headed Citi’sEconomic and Political Strategies Group. Still earlier in his fourteen years with Citi he worked withgovernments in Asia, Latin America and Europe on financial stabilization, liability management, debtissuance and privatization.

From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Shafer was Assistant Secretary and subsequently Under Secretary of the U.S.Treasury for International Affairs. At the Treasury Department, he focused on strengthening economicgrowth and financial stability in both developed and developing countries, fostering financial marketdevelopment and liberalization, and strengthening the IMF and multilateral development banks. He wasalso responsible for the inter-agency CFIUS process to review foreign investment in the United States.

From 1984 until 1993, Mr. Shafer held a series of high-level positions at the Organization for EconomicCooperation and Development (OECD). Prior to the OECD, he served with the Federal Reserve Bank ofNew York, the Federal Reserve Board and the Council of Economic Advisors.

He served as an officer with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1967-68 and was awarded the bronzestar with “V” device and oak leaf cluster.

Mr. Shafer holds a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees inEconomics from Yale University. He has taught at Princeton, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon and YaleUniversities.

In addition to his role with the NCAFP, he is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Honorable Jeffrey R. Shafer

Henry Alfred Kissinger was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the 56th Secretary of State, a position heheld until January 20, 1977. He also served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairsfrom January 20, 1969, until November 3, 1975. In July 1983 he was appointed by President Reagan tochair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America until it ceased operation in January 1985,and from 1984-1990 he served as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. From1986-1988 he was a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy of the NationalSecurity Council and Defense Department. He served as a member of the Defense Policy Board from2001 to 2016.

At present, Dr. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. He isalso a member of the International Council of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; a Counselor to and Trustee of theCenter for Strategic and International Studies; an Honorary Governor of the Foreign Policy Association;and an Honor Member of the International Olympic Committee. Among his other activities, Dr. Kissingerserved as a member of the Board of Directors of ContiGroup Companies, Inc. from 1988-2014 andremains an Advisor to the Board, a position he also holds at American Express Company since 2005,after serving on the Board from 1984. He is also a Trustee Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; aDirector Emeritus of Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.; and a Director of the International RescueCommittee.

Among the awards Dr. Kissinger has received have been a Bronze Star from the U.S. Army in 1945; theNobel Peace Prize in 1973; the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian award) in1977; and the Medal of Liberty (given one time to ten foreign-born American leaders) in 1986.

Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalized aUnited States citizen in 1943. He served in the Army from February 1943 to July 1946. He graduatedsumma cum laude from Harvard College in 1950 and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from HarvardUniversity in 1952 and 1954. From 1954 until 1969 he was a member of the faculty of Harvard University,in both the Department of Government and the Center for International Affairs. He was Director of theHarvard International Seminar from 1952 to 1969.

The Honorable Dr. Henry A Kissinger

Jacqueline Adams launched a second career as a communications strategist after morethan two decades as an Emmy Award winning CBS News correspondent. Her boutiquefirm, J Adams: Strategic Communications, LLC., has served a variety of corporate and non-profit clients.

She has co-authored a new book which is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2020, “ABlessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive.” For moreinformation or to pre-order the book, visit www.leadempowerthrive.com.

Ms. Adams covered the groundbreaking campaigns of Jesse Jackson for President andGeraldine Ferraro for Vice President before spending five years as a White Housecorrespondent during the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. In the1990s, she was a prolific contributor to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBSNews Sunday Morning. She won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for the 48 Hoursbroadcast, “The Search for Matthew.”

A graduate of Harvard Business School, Ms. Adams serves on the Board of Directors of theHarvard Business School Club of New York and is a member of the Council on ForeignRelations as well as the U.S. Institute of Peace International Advisory Committee. A musicaficionado, she is studying the classical composers at the Juilliard School of Music’s EveningDivision.

Ms. Jacqueline Adams

The Nizami Ganjavi International Center

wishes to congratulate this year's Hans J. Morgenthau Award recipient:

Dr. Robert M. Gates Former Secretary of Defense

Nizami Ganjavi International Center is a cultural, non-profit, non-political organization dedicated to the memory of great Azerbaijani

poet, Nizami Ganjavi and to the study and dissemination of hisworks with a mission to build a dialogue and understanding betweencultures and peoples for building functional and inclusive societies.

Congratulations to this year's Morgenthau Award honoree

Dr. Robert M. Gates

And thank you to Ambassador Elliott

and the entire NCAFP staff for their hard work and dedication!

Tom Hexner

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York proudly supports the NCAFP Virtual Gala!

Many thanks to the National Committee onAmerican Foreign Policy's Chairman Jeff

Shafer and its President Ambassador SusanElliott for their inspired leadership and

tremendous dedication during the past year.

Very special thanks to the NCAFP’s staff fortheir dedicated efforts to continue the

mission of the NCAFP during the trying daysof the current pandemic.

Congratulations to tonight's honoree forhis significant contribution to American

Diplomacy

John V. Connorton , Jr.

The Ronald and Jo CaroleLauder Foundation

salute the NCAFP and joinin honoring

Robert M. Gates

DON AND GENIE RICE

CONGRATULATE AND THANK

AMBASSADOR ELLIOTT AND

THE NCAFP STAFF

FOR INSPIRED, IMAGINATIVE AND

EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL MEETINGS AND

PROGRAMS DURING THE COVID

PANDEMIC

Jeff Shafer, Chairman of the NCAFP, and Mary Lou Shafer join with the friends andsupporters of the National Committee incelebrating its 46th anniversary at the

2020 Virtual Gala.

We salute our honoree

Dr. Robert M. Gates

And we thank Susan Elliott and the NCAFPstaff for their tremendous work and

success in bringing the Committeethrough this disruptive pandemic period.