Election 2020: Key Foreign Policy Issues is a Local-to-Global webcast specifically designed for prospective members that offers a closer look into pressing foreign policy issues as we approach the upcoming election. A panel of current members will offer their insights as policy experts and serve as hosts for the networking session.

This event is an opportunity for you to learn more about what the Pacific Council has to offer and meet fellow prospective members and staff. Know someone who may be interested in attending this event? Email membership@pacificcouncil.org for more information. 

Prospective members can register for the event here. 

Featuring: 

Agnia Grigas, Nonresident Senior Fellow, McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, Occidental College

Strategic advisor, author, and leading authority on energy and geopolitical economy. Author of three acclaimed books including: “The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas” (Harvard UP) presented at the 2018 World Gas Conference and “Beyond Crimea” (Yale UP), selected as Newsweek’s Top-10 book on Russia.

Banafsheh Keynoush, President, Mideast Analysts 

Banafsheh Keynoush is a foreign affairs scholar and an advisor to American private sector companies and policy centers in the Middle East. She has three decades of work experience in high-stake international diplomacy, and in policy and communications roles with the US private sector. 

Nicole Simonian, Co-Leader of International Trade and Head of Asia Mobility Practice, Crowell & Moring LLP

Nicole Janigian Simonian is the co-chair of the firm’s International Trade practice and International Employment and Global Mobility Lead, with a focus on the firm’s Asia practice. A partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office, she is also a director of the firm’s China consulting subsidiary in Shanghai.