AMERICAN GOVERNANCE AMERICAN FEDERALISM AND U.S. PUBLIC POLICY Washington, D.C. – Saint Louis, MO 104411808 v2 1 May 8 – 18, 2013 Seminar Program Coordinators Washington, DC The HONORABLE TOBY GATI Vice Chair Supporters of Civil Society in Russia Board Member Moscow School of Political Studies TOM RHODENBAUGH Supporters of Civil Society in Russia Seminar Program Coordinators St. Louis, MO: DR. TERRY JONES JEROL ENOCH University of Missouri – St. Louis JULIANNE STONE Local Government Partnership TOM RHODENBAUGH RUSS SIGNORINO Supporters of Civil Society in Russia 104411808 v2 2 ORGANIZED AND SUPPORTED BY OPEN WORLD LEADERSHIP CENTER Library of Congress SUPPORTERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN RUSSIA, INC. MOSCOW SCHOOL OF POLITICAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - SAINT LOUIS Office of International Studies and Programs AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION Board and Contributors- Supporters of Civil Society in Russia Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 104411808 v2 3 The Moscow School of Political Studies was established in 1992 as a non-governmental organization. Its mission is to promote the development of civil society in Russia. Washington D.C. Seminar Wednesday, May 8th Arrival Washington DC United Airlines Flt. 917 Arrive 3:10 PM Hotel: Embassy Suites Hotel 1250 22nd Street NW Washington, DC 20037 (202) 857-3388 6:00 Dinner – Diplomat Room - Embassy Suites Hotel Thursday, May 9th 8:45 AM Bus To Library of Congress 9:30 Welcome and Introductions - Library of Congress, Mumford Room James Madison Building Sixth Floor Open World Leadership Center Ambassador John M. O'Keefe, Executive Director Supporters of Civil Society in Russia The Honorable Toby Gati, Vice Chair Ambassador John O'Keefe is the Executive Director of the Open World Center at the Library of Congress. Before assuming this role in 2007, Ambassador O’Keefe had a long and distinguished career in the U.S. State Department. O’Keefe served as Acting Director General and then Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department from February 2006 to August 2007. From 2003 to 2006, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of the Director General, Bureau of Human Resources, and head of the Office of Career Development and Assignments. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan from August 2000 to July 2003. Toby T. Gati is Senior International Advisor at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. She focuses on Russia, Central Europe, the Newly Independent States, and various 104411808 v2 4 politically sensitive regions of the world, as well as the workings of international political and economic institutions. Mrs. Gati served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and the Eurasian States at the National Security Council in the White House in 1993 and then as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (INR) until May 1997. Before joining government, Mrs. Gati was Senior Vice President for Policy Studies at the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), where she worked for over 20 years. Mrs. Gati is a member of the Board of Directors and International Advisory Council of the Moscow School of Political Studies, a board member of the NGO “Suporters of Civil Society in Russia,” a member of the Board of the U.S.-Russia Business Council (USRBC), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and she serves on the Advisory Board of the Valdai International Discussion Club. 10:00 “Twenty Years of Investing in Emerging Markets and Private Equity in Russia: Risks and Rewards” Drew Guff, Managing Director and Founding Principal, Siguler, Guff and Company Drew J. Guff is a Managing Director and founding principal of Siguler, Guff and Company’s emerging markets, direct investment and merchant banking activities and sits in the Investment Committees for of all of the Firm’s funds. Prior to founding Siguler Guff he was with PaineWeber for eleven years in a range of both principal and advisory capacities. In 1994 Mr. Guff was instrumental in the formation of the Russia Partners Company L.P., the first major private equity fund to invest in Russia. Before establishing Russia Partners he was Principal within PaineWeber’s Merchant Banking Group, where he was engaged in structuring and managing investments using the firm’s capital. PaineWeber’s Merchant Banking Group owned controlling stakes in businesses across a broad range of manufacturing, and service industries including broadcasting, retail, media, industrial services and consumer goods. He also served for four years as Assistant to the President of PaineWeber. Mr Guff sits on the board of directors of a number of Russia Partners’ portfolio companies, including EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE:EPAM). He is a board member of the U.S. Russia Business Council and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a trustee of the Philips Academy Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers. Mr Guff holds a A.B. in Economics from Harvard College. 11:00 “An Assessment of U.S. Russia Relations and a Look Ahead” Angela E. Stent, Ph.D, Professor of Government and Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University Angela Stent is Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution. Stent’s academic work focuses on the 104411808 v2 5 triangular political and economic relationship between the United States, Russia and Europe. Her latest book is The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century, to be published by Princeton University Press this fall. She is a member of Admiral Stavridis’ NATO Advisory Panel and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a contributing editor to Survival and is on the boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies, World Policy Journal and International Politik. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Eurasia Foundation and of “Supporters of Civil Society in Russia.” Dr Stent received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her MA and PhD from Harvard University. 12:00 “What does a Citizen have a Right to Know about what Government is Doing?” Thomas Blandon Executive Director, The National Security Archive Thomas S. Blanton is Director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive won U.S. journalism's George Polk Award in April 2000 for "piercing self-serving veils of government secrecy, guiding journalists in search for the truth, and informing us all." The Los Angeles Times described the Archive as "the world's largest nongovernmental library of declassified documents." Blanton served as the Archive's first Director of Planning & Research beginning in 1986, became Deputy Director in 1989, and Executive Director in 1992. His books include White House E-Mail: The Top Secret Computer Messages the Reagan-Bush White House Tried to Destroy, which The New York Times described as "a stream of insights into past American policy, spiced with depictions of White House officials in poses they would never adopt for a formal portrait." He also co-authored The Chronology on the Iran-contra affair, and served as a contributing author to three editions of the ACLU's authoritative guide, Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws, and to the Brookings Institution study Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940. His latest book, Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989, co-authored with Svetlana Savranskaya and Vladislav Zubok, won the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His articles have appeared in The International Herald-Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Slate, the Wilson Quarterly, and many other publications. A graduate of Harvard University, where he was an editor of the independent university daily newspaper The Harvard Crimson. He won Harvard's 1979 Newcomen Prize in history. 1:00 Lunch - Library of Congress 1:45 "Lobbying the Federal Government on Issues of Importance to States and Local Governments: Why and How" Bert Lee Steele III, Managing Partner, The Roosevelt Group 104411808 v2 6 Together with John Simmons and Christopher Goode, Bert Steele founded the Roosevelt Group in 2012. The company provides government affairs and defense consulting services to clients in the defense and national security industries. Before found the Roosevelt Group, Mr. Steele was a Senior Advisor at the international law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where he represented clients before Congress and the executive branch on a wide range of issues, including defense, homeland security, military base enhancement, federal appropriations and the intelligence community. Currently a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps reserves, Mr. Steele deployed to Iraq in 2007-08, where he commanded an intelligence unit in the Al Anbar province. Following his deployment, Mr. Steele served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition as chief of staff for the Intelligence Community Agency Review Team. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Steele served on active duty as a Senate liaison officer in the Marine Corps Office of Legislative Affairs. While working on Capitol Hill, he advised the Senate as to the Marine Corps position on various programmatic, budgetary and policy issues. Prior to working at the Senate, Mr. Steele served in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy as the White House liaison for the Marine Corps, where he helped coordinate the military-political relationships between the Department of the Navy and the Executive Office of the President.