The Age of Uncertainty

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary

And Governing Council Member, ICS

Speaker: Michael Krepon

Co-Founder

The Stimson Centre

About the Speaker

Michael Krepon co-founded the Stimson Center in 1989, a nonpartisan policy research centre working to solve the world’s greatest threats to security and prosperity. He served as Stimson’s President and CEO until 2000, and continues to direct Stimson’s programming on nuclear and space issues. He was appointed the University of Virginia’s Diplomat Scholar, where he taught from 2001-2010. He is the author and editor of twenty-one books, most recently The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age. He worked previously at the Carnegie Endowment, the State Department’s Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Carter Administration, and on Capitol Hill. He received the Carnegie Endowment’s Thérèse Delpech Memorial Award in 2015 for lifetime achievement in non-governmental work to reduce nuclear dangers.

The talk will focus on US foreign policy under Trump and US-China relations.

Event starts on Wednesday, 09 August 2017 at 05:30 hrs

Type

Talks

Dates

09 Aug 2017, 05:30 AM

Venue

The Age of Uncertainty