The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017

The Common Good Forum assembled some of the brightest thinkers in the US for a dynamic overview of our rapidly changing landscape. We put the spotlight on public policy choices and exciting developments affecting us all – making the nation and the world safer, creating shared economic prosperity, and bolstering our democratic values.

WOMEN’S BREAKFAST

Felicia Taylor – Moderator

One Woman Posts – The World Responds
Presentation of American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism by Silda Wall Spitzer to Teresa Shook, who inspired the Women’s March

Remember the Women!
Building the Women’s History Museum
Special report from Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and Congressional Commissioners Jane Abraham, Mary Boies & Emily Rafferty

Empowering Women – What’s Next?
Remarks by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand followed by Q&A

POLITICS AND PRESS

Press Under Fire – Panel

Steven Brill – Moderator – Journalist, Author, Founder, American Lawyer & CourtTV
Floyd Abrams, First Amendment expert
Elizabeth Spayd, Public Editor, New York Times
John Podhoretz, Editor, Commentary Magazine

Protests, Populism, & New Political Landscape – Panel

Ari Melber – Moderator – Chief Legal Correspondent, MSNBC
Shaunna Thomas, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, UltraViolet
David Burstein, CEO & Co-Founder of Run for America
Max Read, Senior Editor, New York Magazine

THE ECONOMY

New Era of Global Trade
Marc Busch, US Trade Expert; Int’l Business Diplomacy, Georgetown University; former advisor to Marco Rubio’s Presidential Campaign

Economic Investment Environment  
Seth Masters, Chief Investment Officer, Bernstein Global Wealth Management

GLOBAL THREATS & OPPORTUNITIES

Jim Hoge – Moderator

China – N. Korea
Orville Schell – Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.- China Relations, Asia Society

France – Europe
Ambassador Jane Hartley – Former US Ambassador to France

Presentation of American Spirit Award for Distinguished Public Service
Senator John McCain – Senator for Arizona, Awardee
Chele Chiavacci Farley – Presentation of Award – Managing Director, Mistral Capital International

ECONOMY - THE BIG PICTURE

Growing the Economy and Jobs – Comments on the Trump Agenda
Omeed Malik – Moderator – Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Strategy, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Anthony Scaramucci – Founder, SkyBridge Capital, President Trump Transition Team

GLOBAL THREATS & OPPORTUNITIES

Introduction

Jonathan Tepperman – Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs Magazine

Homeland Security in the Trump Years
Secretary Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security

Presentation of American Spirit Award for Distinguished Public Service
Secretary John Kerry, former Secretary of State

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The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2016

The Common Good Forum focused on national security, economic prosperity, the 2016 election campaign, and investment advice presented by our long list of knowledgeable speakers to speak on each of these topics.

Our distinguished participants included:

• Joel Benenson, Democratic Pollster and Chief Strategist for Hillary For America

• Ian Bremmer, Founder & President of Eurasia Group and author of Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World

• David Burstein, CEO & Co-Founder of Run for America, commentator on Millennials, social innovation and politics, and author of Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping our World

• Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Former Chief Economist at State Department and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

• Stephanie Cutter, Founding Partner at Precision Strategies and Former Deputy Campaign Manager for Obama 2012

• Seth Flaxman, Co-Founder of Democracy Works

• Senator Lindsey Graham, (R-SC), 2016 Presidential candidate

• William Galston, Former policy advisor to President Bill Clinton, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, and Wall Street Journal columnist

• Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Economist, President of the American Action Forum (AAF), and former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Abby Huntsman, Fox News reporter

• General (Ret.) Ron Keys, USAF, Advisory Board Member of the Center for Climate and Security

• Ted Koppel, Legendary journalist, former anchor of ABC’s Nightline, and author of Lights Out

• Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States

• Larry Kudlow, CNBC Senior Contributor and economist

• Andrew McAfee, Technology and business expert, Co-Director of the MIT Initiative on Digital Economy, and author of The Second Machine Age

• Kayleigh McEnany, CNN Political Commentator and Trump supporter

• General (Ret.) David Petraeus, Former CIA Director, Former U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) Commander, and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute

• Governor Ed Rendell, Former Governor of Pennsylvania and Chair of the 2016 Democratic National Convention

• Alan Schwartz, Executive Chairman of Guggenheim Partners

• Stephanie Sharis, CEO DailyClout and creator of BillCam

• Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York Founder

• Michael Steele, Former RNC Chairman and MSNBC political analyst

• Jeanne Sullivan, Co-Founder of StarVest Partners

• Arun Sundararajan, Stern Professor and author of the upcoming book, The Sharing Economy

• Kim Taipale, Executive Director of the Stilwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy

• Jacob Weisberg, Chairman of The Slate Group, whose roster includes Slate magazine

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