The Pacific Council on International Policy will host a major foreign policy address by U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry on April 12, 2016, at an event in downtown Los Angeles. 

Secretary Kerry will discuss the national security opportunities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. 

“Those of us in Los Angeles and on the west coast are key brokers of the U.S. relationships in the world, and we believe deeply in the importance of U.S. global engagement,” said Council President and CEO Jerrold D. Green. “We are honored to host Secretary Kerry for this special event to address one of the top issues on the current global agenda.”

The Secretary will deliver his remarks at 10 a.m. on April 12 at the Omni Hotel, 251 S. Olive Street. The address will be streamed live at www.pacificcouncil.org/live and at www.state.gov.

Mr. Marc B. Nathanson, Chair of Mapleton Investments, LLC; Ambassador Robert H. Tuttle, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2005-2009); and Ambassador Mickey Kantor, former U.S. Trade Representative (1993-1996) and U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1996-1997), will welcome Secretary Kerry. Mr. Nathanson and Ambassador Tuttle are the co-chairs of the Pacific Council Board of Directors. Ambassador Kantor is also a director.

They will be joined at the event by Los Angeles leaders in finance, law, entertainment, non-profit, and academia.

Secretary Kerry was sworn in as the 68th U.S. Secretary of State in February 2013. He joined the State Department after 28 years in the U.S. Senate, the last four as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.