9/11 to ISIS and Beyond: The Future of Terrorism (And What We Can Do About It) September 8, 2017 | 9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Event Agenda

9:00 a.m. Opening remarks Jason Grumet | President, BPC

9:05 a.m. Keynote remarks and fireside chat with Rep. Michael McCaul Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) | Chairman, House Homeland Security Committee; Moderated by: Jason Grumet | President, BPC

9:25 a.m. Audience Q&A with Chairman McCaul

9:35 a.m. Discussion with Gov. Tom Kean and Rep. Lee Hamilton Gov. Thomas Kean | Former Chairman, 9/11 Commission; Former Governor of New Jersey Rep. Lee Hamilton | Former Vice Chairman, 9/11 Commission; Former Representative from Indiana Moderated by: Chris Kojm | Professor of International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University; Former Chair of the National Intelligence Council

9:58 a.m. Audience Q&A with Gov. Tom Kean and Rep. Lee Hamilton

10:10 a.m. Panel I: After Raqqa – The Future of Terrorism Hassan Hassan | Senior Fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Nibras Kazimi | Author, Syria Through Jihadist Eyes: A Perfect Enemy Kristin Lord | President and CEO, IREX Katherine Zimmerman | Research Manager, Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise Institute Moderated by: Kim Barker | Reporter, The New York Times; Author, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

10:40 a.m. Audience Q&A with Panel I

10:54 a.m. Brief break

11:06 a.m. Keynote remarks by Nathan Sales Nathan Sales | Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. State Department

11:28 a.m. Panel II: Violence and Ideology – What’s the Connection? Jasmine El-Gamal | Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council Tarek Elgawhary | President, Coexist Alberto Fernandez | President, Middle East Broadcasting Networks Sir John Jenkins | Corresponding Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies Middle East; Senior Fellow Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University Moderated by: Graeme Wood | National Correspondent, The Atlantic; Author, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State

11:58 a.m. Audience Q&A with Panel II

12:15 p.m. End of Program

KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY

Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) Chairman, House Homeland Security Committee

@RepMcCaul

Congressman Michael T. McCaul is currently serving his seventh term representing Texas' 10th District in the United States Congress. Prior to Congress, Michael McCaul served as Chief of Counter Terrorism and National Security in the U.S. Attorney’s office, Western District of Texas, and led the Joint Terrorism Task Force charged with detecting, deterring and preventing terrorist activity. McCaul also served as Texas Deputy Attorney General under current U.S. Senator John Cornyn, and served as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section in Washington, D.C. A fourth generation Texan, Congressman McCaul earned a B.A. in Business and History from Trinity University and holds a J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law.

Nathan Sales Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. State Department

Nathan A. Sales was sworn in as the Coordinator for Counterterrorism with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large at the Department of State on August 10, 2017. Before joining the State Department, Ambassador Sales was a law professor at Syracuse University College of Law, where he taught and wrote in the fields of counterterrorism law, national security law, constitutional law, and administrative law. His scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court multiple times. Ambassador Sales previously was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Duke Law School, where he was Research Editor of the Duke Law Journal and joined the Order of the Coif.

OPENING REMARKS BY

Thomas Kean Former Chair, 9/11 Commission; Former Governor, New Jersey; Co-Chair, National Security Program

On December 16, 2002, Tom Kean was named by President George W. Bush to head the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. The Commission’s work culminated on July 22, 2004, with the release of the 9/11 Commission Report, which quickly became a national bestseller. Its recommendations resulted in the largest intelligence reform in the nation’s history. Kean served as the chairman of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a nonprofit entity created with private funds to continue the Commission’s work of guarding against future attacks.

As Governor, Kean was rated among America’s most effective state leaders by Newsweek magazine; noted for tax cuts that spurred 750,000 new jobs; a federally replicated welfare reform program; landmark environmental policies; and more than 30 education reforms. He delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Republican National Convention. He was re-elected for a second term by the largest margin in state history. While Governor, he served on the President’s Education Policy Advisory Committee and as chair of the Education Commission of the States and the National Governor’s Association Task Force on Teaching. He remains one of the most popular governors in New Jersey’s history.

Tom Kean served as president of Drew University from 1990 until 2005. During his 15 year tenure, he focused on shaping Drew into one of the nation’s leading small liberal arts universities by stressing the primacy of teaching, the creative use of technology in the liberal arts, and the importance of international education. During Kean’s presidency, applications to Drew increased by more than 40%; the endowment nearly tripled; and more than $60 million was committed to construction of new buildings and renovation of older buildings, principally student residence halls.

Kean served on several national committees and commissions. He headed the American delegation to the UN Conference on Youth in Thailand, served as vice chairman of the American delegation to the World Conference on Women in Beijing, and served as a member of President Clinton’s Initiative on Race. He also served on the National Endowment for Democracy. He holds more than 30 honorary degrees and numerous awards from environmental and educational organizations.

Kean currently serves as chairman of the board of Carnegie Corporation of New York. In addition he has served on a number of corporate boards and is chair of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, co-chair of JerseyCan and is co-chairman with Congressman Lee Hamilton of the National Security Preparedness Group. He is Vice Chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund. He serves on the board of the Seeing Eye and is the former chair of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation the nation’s largest health philanthropy. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, American Academy of Art & Sciences and the Vice Chairman of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

He holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. from Columbia University Teachers College and has served as a trustee of both institutions. Kean is the author of The Politics of Inclusion, published by The Free Press and is co-author of Without Precedent, published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. He writes a regular column for The Star Ledger with former Governor Brendan Byrne and appears as a regular commentator on NJTV News. His wife is the former Deborah Bye of Wilmington, Delaware. The Keans have twin sons, Tom and Reed, and a daughter, Alexandra, and reside in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Awards: Frederick Heldring Global Leadership Award NAICU Award for Advocacy of Independent Higher Education Four Freedoms Award NAACP Man of the Year

Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service Heart of Gold Award (Freedom Foundation Award) Statesman of our Decade (LD Access Foundation) New Jersey Alliance for Action Lifetime Achievement Award The Woodrow Wilson Award (Princeton University) Building Bridges Award (Presented by Voices of September 11) National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award Visionary Leadership Award (Christopher Reeve Foundation) Jefferson Award for Public Service (American Institute for Public Service) Pilgrims of the United States Medallion of Service to the Nation Woodrow Wilson Medal for Distinguished Service to Education

Lee Hamilton Former Representative, Indiana; Former Vice Chair, 9/11 Commission; Co- Chair, National Security Program

Lee H. Hamilton, is one of the nation’s foremost experts on Congress and representative democracy. Hamilton founded the Center on Congress at Indiana University in 1999 and served as its Director until 2015; after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented Indiana from 1965-1999. He also served as President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., from 1999-2010. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2015).

Hamilton currently serves as a Distinguished Scholar in the School of Global and International Studies and as a Professor of Practice in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.

A leading figure on foreign policy, intelligence, and national security, Hamilton served as Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and Co-Chairman of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group. Until recently, he served as Co-Chair of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future with General Brent Scowcroft and as a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

Continuing to play a leading role in public affairs, he has been at the center of efforts to address some of our nation’s highest profile homeland security and foreign policy challenges. He is currently a member of the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. Among his published works are How Congress Works and Why You Should Care, Strengthening Congress, and Congress, Presidents, and American Politics. He writes twice-monthly commentaries about Congress and what individuals can do to make representative democracy work better. He is a frequent contributor to national press.

Hamilton graduated from DePauw University and Indiana University School of Law. A former high school and college basketball star, he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982. He was married to Nancy Ann Hamilton for 58 years until her death in 2012. They have three children and five grandchildren.

PANELISTS

Jasmine El-Gamal

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

@ jasmineelgamal

Jasmine El-Gamal is a resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, where she focuses primarily on the role of narratives in the cycle of radicalization and violent extremism. In 2003, she served in Iraq as a translator and cultural advisor for the 82nd Airborne Division during the initial stage of Operation Iraqi Freedom, where she facilitated dialogue and cooperation between the U.S. military and the local Iraqi population in Southern Iraq. She lived and worked in several Arab countries before joining the Department of Defense in 2008 as a policy advisor on Middle East issues. Jasmine also served as the Acting Chief of Staff for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy, and from 2013 to 2015 was the Special Assistant to three Under Secretaries of Defense for Policy. She holds an MS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a BS in Marketing from Clarkson University.

Tarek Elgawhary President, Coexist

@telgawhary

For over a decade, Dr. Tarek Elgawhary, a scholar of comparative religions and Islamic studies, has advised non-profit organizations, corporations and governments throughout the world on challenges that intersect faith, culture and politics. He received his BA in comparative religions with a focus on Jewish studies, his MA was in a specialized program focusing on Islam and Hinduism, and his PhD, from Princeton University, was in Islamic law. From 2003-2007, his religious education culminated in the study of traditional Islamic sciences at al-Azhar Seminary in Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Elgawhary also serves as the CEO of the Coexist Corporation and a trustee of the Coexist Foundation, a non-profit organization advancing social cohesion through education and innovation. Since 2006 the Coexist Foundation has raised over $30 million for initiatives across the world that have impacted people’s lives and transformed their understanding of one another.

Alberto Fernandez President, Middle East Broadcasting Networks @ VPAFernandez

Ambassador Fernandez is currently the President of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks after he departed the Middle East Media Research Institute. He is widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable and impactful U.S. Foreign Service voices in the Arabic-language media. Ambassador Fernandez held numerous roles at the U.S. Department of State, including the Department’s Coordinator for the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of

Equatorial Guinea, Chief of Mission in Sudan, Director for Near East Public Diplomacy and Director for Iraq Public Diplomacy. He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor and was a recipient of a 2008 Presidential Meritorious Service Award, the 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy, and a 2003 Superior Honor Award for his work in Afghanistan, among other awards. Ambassador Fernandez is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the Defense Language Institute.

Hassan Hassan Senior Fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @ hxhassan

Hassan Hassan is a senior fellow at TIMEP focusing on militant Islam, Syria, and Iraq. He was previously an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Program in London, a research associate at the Delma Institute in Abu Dhabi, and a deputy opinion editor for the National, the leading English language daily in the Middle East. Working in journalism and research since 2008, Mr. Hassan focuses on Syria, Iraq, and the Gulf States, and he has written extensively on Sunni and Shia movements in the region, including for think-tanks such as the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Chatham House, and the Brookings Institution. Mr. Hassan received an M.A. in international relations from the University of Nottingham.

Sir John Jenkins Corresponding Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies Middle East; Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University

Sir John Jenkins is Executive Director of The International Institute for Strategic Studies – Middle East. He took up the position in January 2015 after a 35 year career in the British Diplomatic Service. He holds a BA (Double First Class Honours) and a Ph.D from Jesus College, Cambridge. He also studied at The School of Oriental and African Studies in London (Arabic and Burmese) and through the FCO with the London and Ashridge Business Schools. He joined the FCO in 1980 and served in Abu Dhabi (1983-86), Malaysia (1989- 92) and Kuwait (1995-98) before being appointed Ambassador to Burma (1999-2002). He was subsequently HM Consul-General, Jerusalem (2003-06), Ambassador to Syria (2006-07), FCO Director for the Middle East and North Africa (2007-09), Ambassador to Iraq (2009-11), Special Representative to the National Transitional Council and subsequently Ambassador to Libya (2011) and Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2012-2015).

Nibras Kazimi Talisman-gate.com @ ImaraWaTijara

Nibras Kazimi is currently working on a new book devoted to the region and evolving challenges. Previously, he directed the Research Bureau of the Iraqi National Congress in Washington DC and Baghdad, and was a pro-bono advisor for the Higher National Commission for De-Ba'athification, which he helped establish and staff. Kazimi's research focuses on the growing threat of jihadism in the Middle East, as well as prospects for

democracy in the region. His primary interest is the national security of Iraq, and how threats to the nascent democracy there are enabled and coordinated by regional Middle Eastern actors and factors. He has traveled widely, and recently has been to Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan. Kazimi is a graduate of Brandeis University, and he speaks Arabic and English fluently.

Kristin Lord

President and CEO, IREX @ kristin_lord

Kristin Lord is President and CEO of IREX, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to building a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world. Prior to joining IREX in 2014, Dr. Lord served as Acting President and Executive Vice President of the United States Institute of Peace. From 2009 to 2013, Lord was Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, where she oversaw the Center’s research and served as one of three members of the Center’s leadership team. Prior to joining CNAS, Lord was a fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she directed the science and technology initiative of the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World and authored studies on human development in the Arab world and US public diplomacy. Lord received her MA and PhD in government from Georgetown University and her BA in international studies from American University.

Katherine Zimmerman Research Manager, Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise Institute @ KatieZimmerman

Katherine Zimmerman is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the research manager for AEI’s Critical Threats Project. As the senior analyst on al Qaeda, she studies how the terrorist network operates globally. Her work is also focused on al Qaeda’s affiliates in the Gulf of Aden region and in western and northern Africa. She specializes in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based al Qaeda faction, and in al Shabaab. Ms. Zimmerman has testified before Congress about the threats to US national security interests emanating from al Qaeda and its network. She has also briefed members of Congress, their staff, and members of the defense community. Her analyses have been widely published, including in CNN.com, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She graduated with distinction from Yale University with a B.A. in political science and modern Middle East studies.

Kim Barker

Reporter, The New York Times; Author, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

@ Kim_Barker

Kim Barker is a reporter on the Metro desk, specializing in investigative reporting and narrative writing. Before joining The New York Times in mid-2014, Ms. Barker was an investigative reporter at the online nonprofit ProPublica, writing mainly about campaign

finance. In late 2009 and early 2010, Ms. Barker was the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York focused on Pakistan and Afghanistan and United States policy. She was the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009. Her book, "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan," published by Doubleday in 2011. Before joining the Tribune, Ms. Barker worked for The Seattle Times, The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., and The Times in northwest Indiana. She has won investigative-reporting awards from organizations such as Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, and Best of the West.

Grame Wood

National Correspondent, The Atlantic; Author, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State

@ gcaw

Graeme Wood is a correspondent for The Atlantic. He was the 2015-2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is a lecturer in political science at Yale University. He was formerly a contributing editor to The New Republic and books editor of Pacific Standard. He was a reporter at The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh in 1999, then lived and wrote in the Middle East from 2002 to 2006. He has received fellowships from the Social Sciences Research Council (2002-2003), the South Asian Journalists Association (2009), the East-West Center (2009-2010), and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide (2013-2014). He has appeared many times on television and radio (CNN, ABC, BBC, MSNBC, et al.). Graeme attended Deep Springs College, Harvard, Indiana University, and the American University in Cairo.