Oxford Geopolitical Risk Panel at Forward Global Hybrid Event, Tuesday, November 18
As part of our Three Capitals series of events, we will be hosting an in-person and live-streamed hybrid event. Wharton Club Members and Guests are invited!
Oxford Geopolitical Risk Panel at Forward GlobalHybrid Event, Tuesday, November 18 As part of our Three Capitals series of events, we will be hosting an in-person and live-streamed hybrid event with our sister alumni chapters in Ottawa and Mexico City. The event will consist of a panel addressing geopolitical risks in the 21st Century:
The live event will be held at Forward Global's DC headquarters: 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW #710, Washington, DC 20007 Their office is on the Georgetown Waterfront with beautiful views of the Potomac Moderator
Noe Garcia III Noe Garcia III is a veteran advocacy and communications executive in Washington, D.C, currently serving as a Managing Partner of Forward Global. In addition to his leadership position within the firm, Noe heads the government relations practice, building results-driven campaigns for domestic and global clients and securing significant public policy and regulatory wins. Noe oversees multi-national economic matters for global clients on trade, immigration, and finance. For four consecutive years, he has been named one of Washington’s top lobbyists. He has over two decades of government experience, including tenure at the White House and the U.S. Department of Treasury. He served as counsel to two Treasury Secretaries and a U.S. Senate Majority Leader. Speakers
Dr. Judith Jacob Judith Jacob leads Forward Global’s geopolitical risk and security intelligence practice. She has over a decade of experience enabling clients to enter safely and operate successfully in complex environments. Judith has worked closely with firms in the extractives, insurance, finance, aerospace, and technology sectors to anticipate and respond to crises and conduct scenario planning exercises to anticipate and mitigate threats to their personnel and assets. She has also advised G7 and G20 governments and served as a consultant and trainer for international security organisations, such as Interpol. She regularly appears as a keynote speaker at international conferences and routinely does television, print, and radio interviews on behalf of Forward Global. Before joining Forward Global, Judith lived and worked across Europe, North America, and Asia, leading a large team of geopolitical analysts at another consultancy. She holds a PhD from the LSE, specialising in the ideology of Islamist militancy.
Atul Singh Atul Singh is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Fair Observer. He has taught political economy at the University of California, Berkeley and been a visiting professor of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Atul studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford on the Radhakrishnan Scholarship and did an MBA with a triple major in finance, strategy and entrepreneurship at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as a corporate lawyer in London and served as an officer in India’s volatile border areas where he had a few near-death experiences. Atul has also been a poet, playwright, sportsman, mountaineer and a founder of many organizations. His knowledge is eclectic, and his friends often joke that it comes in handy when access to Google is limited.
Dr. Christopher Ford Dr. Christopher Ford is a Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Pharos Foundation in Oxford. He serves on the advisory boards of the American Foreign Policy Council and the National Security Institute at George Mason University. Ford has been a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and held leadership roles at the MITRE Corporation. From 2018 to 2021, he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, with prior senior positions in the US government. Educated at Harvard, Yale and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he has worked on five US Senate committees, been a think tank scholar and served as a US Navy intelligence officer. He enjoys exercise, Japanese jujitsu, zen meditation and punting in Oxford.
Dr. Stewart Patrick Stewart Patrick is a senior fellow and director of the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary areas of research focus are the shifting foundations of world order, the future of American internationalism, and the requirements for effective multilateral cooperation on transnational challenges. He is particularly interested in the international governance dilemmas posed by shifting power dynamics, emerging technologies, anti-globalization sentiments, the planetary ecological crisis, and growing competition in the global commons, including the oceans and outer space. An expert in the history and practice of multilateralism, Patrick is the author of three books, including The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World; Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security; and The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War. He has written hundreds of articles, essays, chapters, and reports on problems of world order, U.S. global engagement, the United Nations and other international organizations, and the management of global issues. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Patrick has served on the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State. He helped establish the Council of Councils, a global think tank network, and served on the steering committee of the Paris Peace Forum. He appears regularly as an expert commentator in major media, including television, radio, print, an online. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Schedule Join us for a welcome drink and mingle! 18:00 - 18:30 Enjoy our hosted bar and take a moment to settle in before the panel begins. Doors open 30 minutes prior to the event. Geopolitical Risk Panel and Q&A 18:30-20:00 Panel Discussion Followed by an interactive Q&A session with our speakers. Networking 20:00-21:00 Stick around after the panel for networking! Grab a drink, meet new people, and keep the conversation going. Sponsor Learn more about the amazing sponsor of this year's event.
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