HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS PAST YEAR SPONSORS 2017-2018

Membership Premier Education Partner • The Council has more than 900 members, of whom half are at the Premier level. Platinum Sponsors ($20,000+) • Magellan Society membership (ages 21-40) includes William & Barbara Harrell more than 50 members.

Gold Sponsors ($10,000+) Magellan Society Association of Corporate McGuireWoods LLP • Young professionals connected with Council leadership Counsel North Florida Chapter Gary & Nancy Chartrand throughout the year via monthly Council Connections EverBank Advised Fund to discuss professional and international interests. Jacksonville University Paul & Nina Goodwin Additionally, Board members were paired one-on-one Holmes Private Client Group Chuck & Nicki Moorer with a selected cohort for the Mentor Program. - Marty Jones Fred & Susan Schantz The Mackowski  connected the local and global David & Elaine Strickland • Quarterly Saloons Family Foundation issues of the day and featured experts exploring - Dick and Marty Jones human trafficking, and managing global disorder. Mayo Clinic

Silver Sponsors ($5,000+) 2017 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL EXPENSES* Adecco Group North America Cecilia Bryant, Esq. & Dr. Richard Lipsey Speaker Programs BBVA Compass 66% Education Programs CFA Society Jacksonville Pete & Marilyn Carpenter Management Cypress Village Bob & Sandy Cook and General Fidelity Investments Lad & Anita Daniels 17% TOTAL EXPENSES: Foley & Lardner LLP Robert & Sallie Ann Hart $797,624 Holland & Knight LLP Corrine C. Hodak, P.A. 17% JAX Chamber Admiral & Mrs. Jonathan T. Howe Lambrou Andrews Foundation, Inc. Diane DeMell Jacobsen 2017 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL REVENUE - Fred Lambrou, M.D. & Randy & Becky Johnson AND SUPPORT* Pat Andrews W. Radford Lovett II Sponsorships Regency Centers Russell & Joannie Newton 50% Membership Dues US Assure and Contributions Peter Rummell Contributions, in-kind U.S. Trust Bank of America J. Wayne & Delores Barr Weaver 35% Other Revenue Private Wealth Management Vicar’s Landing Bringing the World Closer 11% TOTAL REVENUE AND Bronze Sponsors ($3,000+) SUPPORT: $824,372 Jackson Lewis Kay Nichols Major General & Edward & Karen Rogan 4% Mrs. John Fryer Jeanie M. Taras, CFP, CDFA; Ambassador Marilyn McAfee UBS Financial Services, Inc. SPEAKER ENDOWMENT CORPUS*: $588,073 (Ret.) James & Jeanne Winston EDUCATION ENDOWMENT CORPUS*: $793,653 *audited financials as of fiscal year end 6/30/2017 Media Sponsors 2017-2018 YEAR IN REVIEW The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville appreciates the generous support of our 100 Festival Park Avenue donors who helped make the 2017-2018 Jacksonville, Florida 32202 season successful. (904) 280-8162 [email protected] worldaffairscounciljax.org HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS PAST YEAR FEATURED SPEAKERS 2017-2018 Programs The New Global Economic Reality The Future of Intelligence CHRISTOPHER COX GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN • Seven Global Issues Evenings at the University of Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2006-2009) North Florida provided valuable insights into diverse Commission (2005-2009) and the National Security Agency (1999-2005) international issues and were livestreamed to two off-site locations, Fleet Landing and Vicar’s Landing, expanding program reach to more than 8,500 Northeast Florida residents this season. Shanghai, Mumbai, Dubai or Goodbye Putin’s Plans and U.S. Foreign Policy AFSHIN MOLAVI AMBASSADOR STEPHEN SESTANOVICH • Six Global Business Luncheons offered valuable Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute Ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet insight into international political, economic, Union (1997-2001); George F. Kennan Senior business and financial trends. An inaugural livestream Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Council presentation increased audience by 45%. on Foreign Relations

• Special Engagements provided nine additional Deep Sea Exploration - Past, Present opportunities to meet speakers and explore An Update from The Economist and Future JAMES ASTILL international issues in new, creative ways. BOB BALLARD Washington Correspondent, The Economist Renowned Ocean Explorer and Scientist Education • Sixteen high schools participated in Great Decisions, taking part in seven Student Interactions and dialoguing with each Global Issues Evening speaker. Financial Market Blind Spots & A Presidential Look at The Global Outlook and Mexico’s Perspective on • The Admiral Jonathan T. Howe Academic WorldQuest GILLIAN TETT Hemispheric and Bilateral Relations attracted 57 teams from 24 high schools for a trivia U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times FELIPE CALDERON competition that sent the winning team from Stanton President of Mexico (2006-2012) to compete nationally.

• More than 160 students attended the fourth Tax Reform and U.S. The Future for Bricks and Mortar annual Kick-Off Dinner & Dialogue and discussed Competitiveness Retail and Regency Centers “: Prospects for a Fragile State.” MIHIR A. DESAI, PH.D. HAP STEIN Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, • The International Crisis Management Exercise Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School and Professor of Law, focused on a nuclear threat from North Korea and Regency Centers Harvard Law School challenged participants to develop foreign policy recommendations. The Court and the World: An Update from The Fed: Economic • The Ambassador Marilyn McAfee Scholarship American Law and the New Outlook and Monetary Policy Global Realities Program provided five awards to area college RAPHAEL BOSTIC JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER students in support of their study abroad programs. President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bank of Atlanta • The Board Fellows Program was inaugurated with United States two UNF students serving as ex-officio members on the World Affairs Council of Jacksonville’s Board of Tax and Trade Policies: Where Are We Directors, gaining first-hand experience in community and Where Are We Going? JOHN SNOW service and stewardship. Secretary of the Treasury (2003-2006)

“I now understand diplomacy is essential in foreign relations and rule of law is vital.” –Student Great Decisions Program