BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:217@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20161012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20161012T190000 DTSTAMP:20231222T084721Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/wm-us-foreign-policy/ SUMMARY:WorldMatters - "US Foreign Policy & Election Readiness" a panel dis cussion with Dr. Forrest Nabors DESCRIPTION:Join us at 5:30pm for a social mixer with our guest speakers pr ior to the program start at 6:00pm.  Please plan to arrive earlier if you plan to eat food prior to the program or plan to try 49th State Brewing C o's delicious food after the discussion.\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nCommunity P erspective - Mead Treadwell\nPrior to joining Pt Capital as President\, Me ad Treadwell served as Alaska’s lieutenant governor and was a candidate for U.S. Senate. Mead is recognized as one of the world’s Arctic policy experts. He was appointed to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission by Presid ent George W. Bush\, and designated as chair under President’s Bush and Obama. Mead served in the cabinet of Alaska Governor Wally Hickel and led Alaska’s efforts to build circumpolar cooperation through the eight nati on Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy. Mead has been actively involv ed in numerous Arctic policy focused organizations\, including: Institute of the North\, the Aspen Institute\, the Hoover Institution at Stanford Un iversity\, the Arctic Circle\, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Act ion Council on the Arctic.\n\nAs an entrepreneur and investor\, Mead has s erved in numerous Board and executive leadership roles in Alaska resource development\, telecommunications\, and information technology companies th at created innovative programs like “Street view” ® for Google.\n\nMe ad is a graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Business School.\n\nBu siness/Trade Perspective - Dave Harbour\nDave Harbour is publisher of the Northern Gas Pipelines blog\, created 15 years ago. He has served as direc tor or vice president of public\, governmental or external affairs for the 26 member Arctic Gas Consortium\, Northern Natural Gas of Omaha\, Atlanti c Richfield Company\, the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) an d Alaska Pacific University. He is founder\, or organizer\, of Saturday Ma rket\, Arctic Power\, the Anchorage Downtown Partnership\, the American Ba ld Eagle Foundation\, the Eisenhower-Alaska Statehood Monument and the Ala ska Support Industry Alliance. He is a former commissioner of the Anchorag e Bicentennial Commission\, the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank and The Regul atory Commission of Alaska.\n\nA former Army officer\, Harbour served as p resident of Action Security and the American Bald Eagle Institute\, Execut ive Director of the Anchorage Parking Authority and a consultant to BP\, E xxon\, the State of Alaska\, Airlines\, Hotels\, the Alaska Railroad\, Ame rican Motors Corp.\, the Bureau of Indian Affairs\, the World Trade Center - Alaska\, Anchorage Concert Association and the Alaska Visitors Associat ion. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Council on Economic Education a nd the Alaska Oil and Gas Congress. He is a Commissioner Emeritus of the N ational Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and former Chairma n of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce\, Common Sense for Alaska and the H ugh O'brien Youth Foundation-Alaska.\n\nDave has produced television progr ams\, commercials and documentaries and a motion picture film. His photos\ , documentaries\, articles\, poetry and interviews have appeared in thousa nds of radio\, television\, blog\, magazine and newspaper venues throughou t the US and Canada. He is former president of the Alaska Press Club\, is a lifetime Accredited Member of the Public Relations Society of America an d holds a Masters Degree in Journalism-Communications from Murray State Un iversity.\n\nAcademic Perspective &\; Program Moderator - Dr. Forrest N abors\nDr. Forrest Nabors joined the Department of Political Science at th e University of Alaska at Anchorage in 2011. He has taught American govern ment and political philosophy at Oregon State University and the Universit y of Oregon. His current scholarly research is focused on the changing cha racter of American government leading up to the Civil War and Reconstructi on.\n\nPrior to becoming a professor\, Dr. Nabors was a high technology bu siness executive in Portland\, Oregon. He has remained actively engaged in supporting economic and civic development in his communities. Dr. Nabors is from Fair Haven\, New Jersey.\n\n\n\nOnline registration for this event will close at 12:00pm on Wednesday\, October 12th. Questions about this e vent and registration should be directed to rsvp@alaskaworldaffairs.org or (907)276-8038.\n\n\n\nThe WorldMatters program series is made possible th anks to the support of BP.\n\nWe also very much appreciate the support and guidance of our community partners. Visit the WorldMatters page to learn more about the partner organizations and contact Deputy Director Alyssa Bi sh to get involved! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2016/08/TREADWELL.jpg CATEGORIES:WorldMatters LOCATION:49th State Brewing Company\, 717 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, AK\, 9950 1\, United States GEO:61.21968289999999;-149.8958227 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=717 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=49th State Brewing Company:geo:61.21968289999999,-149.8958227 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0900 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:AKDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR