Korea and the Hill

Details: Friday, January 30 , 2015 | 12:00 PM

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About the Speaker: 2015-01-30 12:00:00
Event Name: $10 Members | $20 Guests | Explorer and YPN Members are FREE but must register
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Event Link:   Michael Schiffer currently serves as the Senior Advisor/Counselor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Previously, he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. Mr. Schiffer came to the Office of the Secretary of Defense in April of 2009 from the Stanley Foundation where he was a program officer in Policy Analysis and Dialogue responsible for the foundation's Asia programs as well as a range of other US national and global security issues from 2006-2009. From 2004-2005 he was a Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan. From 1995-2004, Schiffer worked on the staff of US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), where he was her senior national security adviser and legislative director. Prior to that, he was director of International Security Programs at New York University's Center for War, Peace, and the News Media and also managed a bed and breakfast inn in Hawaii. Schiffer is a Center for Asia and Pacific Studies Fellow at the University of Iowa and has published widely on a range of international security, political, and media issues. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and New York University.
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Summit External URL: <img src="images/icons/2013/studio_korea-logo.jpg" alt="studio korea-logo" height="142" width="238" /> Be part of a live audience for special recording sessions. Delve into the day’s headlines, dialogue with special guests from policy, finance, research, academe, international organizations, and the media, and determine new trends, priorities, and approaches in and toward East Asia and the Korean Peninsula.

2015 01 30 korea-hill icon Michael Schiffer, Senior Advisor and Counselor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, offers insights on the new 114th Congress and its effect on Korea policy. A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia, Schiffer shares his views on the impact of the new Republican majority, the final two years of the Obama White House, and prospects for Asia policy-making.

Korea and the Hill

with

Michael Schiffer, Senior Advisor and Counselor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Friday, January 30, 2015 | 12 PM

11:30 AM | Registration & Light Fare

12:00 PM | Discussion

$10 Members | $20 Guests

~Explorer and YPN Members are free but must register here~

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