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.