I am as excited as you are for the opportunity to speak with Stacey Abrams here and hear your thoughts about our politics and our foreign policy.īut I’d be remiss as a journalist not to start this conversation by asking THE question-(laughter)-that everybody is asking. Now, without further ado, I’m going to turn things over to Eduardo Porter, who will be introducing this afternoon’s keynote speaker, Stacey Abrams. Joan is a former CFR board member, and it’s her generous support that has made this year’s conference possible. I also want to thank some of my colleagues here at CFR-our Meetings Program, our events team, and our human resources team-for the work that they put into today’s event.įinally, I would like to thank Joan Spero. (Laughter.) Look, Tom oversees both GAP and ICAP, and he has been a leading voice in putting diversity onto the foreign policy agenda. (Cheers, applause.) You can see why I wanted to thank Tom. And I want to recognize the leadership teams at both organizations not just for the work they have done to make today possible, but for the really terrific work they do throughout the year to broaden the foreign policy community. I noted this is the seventh conference we have had and it’s seventh time we’ve also had the pleasure of collaborating with both GAP and ICAP. For those of you watching us on CSPAN or on the internet, you can see the public sessions not just of this conference, but of past years’ conferences by visiting our website, CFR.org. We hope that the conversations taking place here today and the networks that are being built will bring important and new voices into the foreign policy debate. Now, the Diversity in International Affairs Conference is one of several initiatives here at the Council intended to do just that. And that isn’t likely to change without concerted efforts to identify talented members of underrepresented groups, expose them to career opportunities in foreign policy, and to recruit them for positions in the field. We hold this conference in recognition of the fact that while America’s ethnic and racial makeup has changed dramatically over the last half-century, the ethnic and racial makeup of the foreign policy community has not. I want to encourage everybody to tweet about the event using the hashtag #CDIA2019.Ī bit of background on this conference. I want to-besides welcoming everyone in the room, I want to welcome those who are joining us on CSPAN and also everyone joining us via the internet as we livestream today’s talk. ![]() ![]() This conference is jointly presented by the Council on Foreign Relations the Global Access Pipeline-known by its acronym, GAP and the International Career Advancement Program, known by its acronym, ICAP. I am senior vice president here at the Council.Īnd it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome you to this keynote address and closing session of the Seventh Annual Conference on Diversity in International Affairs. But first, a little bit of spinach before we get to the highlight of the afternoon. I think you’re going to be very happy with the next hour or so. LINDSAY: I’m glad to see we have a lively crowd, a full house.
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