2019 CELEBRATING WOMEN LEADERS LUNCHEON

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Ambassador Susan Rice, 24th US National Security Advisor (2013-2017), Author of Tough Love
Moderator: Susan Page, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief
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Hon. Susan Gordon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2017-2019)
Hon. Andrea Thompson, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs (2018-2019)
Moderator: Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times Washington Bureau Chief
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2019 Celebrating Women Leaders Luncheon
December 3, 2019 | Washington, DC
Photos | Sponsors | Host Committee | Diplomatic Committee | Press Coverage

On December 3, 2019, the WFPG highlighted three international security professionals at its annual benefit luncheon in Washington, DC. Ambassador Susan Rice, 24th US National Security Advisor (2013-2017), joined USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page for a conversation on Rice's new memoir Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, and Hon. Susan Gordon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2017-2019), and Hon. Andrea Thompson, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs (2018-2019), joined New York Times Washington Bureau Chief and WFPG Board Member Elisabeth Bumiller for a conversation on current national security challenges, as well as their own career paths.

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WFPG Board Co-Chair Lois Romano welcomes guests

 

Benefit Committee Chair Kristi Rogers introduces panelists

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Former Principal Deputy Director of
National Intelligence Susan Gordon

 

Former Under Secretary of State Andrea Thompson
addresses WFPG members

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Conversation on the future of national security

 

Hon. Susan Gordon speaks about her career

 

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New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Elisabeth
Bumiller asks a question of Andrea Thompson

 

Hon. Susan Gordon and Elisabeth Bumiller

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Benefit Steering Committee Chair Kristi Rogers

 

WFPG Board Chair Ambassador Cathy Russell

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Ambassador Susan Rice and USA Today
Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page

 

Ambassador Susan Rice, Former
US National Security Advisor on Tough Love

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Ambassador Rice and Susan Page
discuss her new memoir Tough Love

 

Susan Page interviews Ambassador Rice

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Ambassador Rice addresses an audience question

 

Ambassador Rice and Susan Page

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Former Board Members Carolyn Brehm
and Mary Catherine Toker

 

WFPG Board of Directors with speaker
Andrea Thompson and moderator Susan Page

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Lois Romano, Hon. Mike Rogers, Kristi Roger,
Ambassador Russell, Ambassador Rice

 

Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, Ambassador Kare Aas
of Norway, and Ambassador Melanne Verveer

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Ambassador Susan Rice and Ambassador
Rosemary Banks of New Zealand

 

WFPG Board Member Mary Brady with Diana Marrero
of Foreign Policy, Gihan Elhadidy of the Embassy of
Egypt, and Gabby Batkin of Sponsor Northrop Grumman

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Former Board Chair Ann Stock, Ambassador Russell,
and Shaikha Aisha AlKhalifa

 

Jana McKeag, Tom Foley, WFPG Board Member
Gebe Martinez, and Francois Duret

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Former Board Members Stephenie Foster and Donna
McLarty with Georgetown student Paige Raborn

 

Sue Gordon greets Tami Longaberger and guest

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Stella O'Leary and Susan Davis

 

WFPG Board Member Allison Ford and Lesley Fulop of
United Technologies with Susan Walsh of Pratt & Whitney

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Shaila Manyam of Burson Cohn & Wolfe
and moderator Susan Page

 

Helen Jorgenson, Julie Aslaksen, Sunni Warren,
and Amy Hamstead of sponsor Host Hotels & Resorts

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Anne-Marie Gwynn-Sackson of USIP,
Eisabeth Bumiller, and Laura Valentine

 

Ambassador Susan Rice speaks with Ambassador
Katrina Cooper, DCM of Australia

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WFPG Executive Director Kim Kahnhauser Freeman
and Donna McLarty greet guests

 

Ann Stock, Ambassador Russell, Ambassador Ray
Mahmood, and WFPG Board Member Shaista Mahmood


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Gabby Batkin of sponsor Northrop Grumman and
Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn

 

Laura Valentine, Shaista Mahmood, Aisha AlKhalifa,
Marcia Jackson, Rachel Pearson, and Kristi Rogers

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Maria Montanez and Bea Luna Vida of
Morgan Stanley with Lynn Holec

 

Slovenian Defense Attaché Col. Mojca Pešec and
Anita Stanković-Pavlič, DCM of Slovenia

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Ann Pincus and WFPG Leadership Circle
Member Elizabeth Stevens

 

WFPG Members Anna Burress and Kristen
Folkerts of the US Chamber of Commerce

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Caroline Meledo of Hilton and Tu Rinsche
of Transparentem pose for a selfie

 

Grace Warnecke with Bidemi Carrol of
sponsor RTI International

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Sofia Machado and DCM Gerardo Díaz Bartolomé of
the Embassy of Argentina with Shaila Manyam

 

Allyson Freedman, Jordan Hibbs, and
Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn

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Ambassador Susan Rice and Donna McLarty

 

Ambassador Mathilde Mukantabana of Rwanda

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Ambassador Susan Rice signs copies of Tough Love

 

Ambassador Rice with former WFPG
Board Member Marlene Johnson



BENEFIT COMMITTEES
HOST COMMITTEE
Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley
The Honorable Antony J. Blinken
Ambassador William J. Burns
Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky
The Honorable Thomas E. Donilon
The Honorable Michèle Flournoy
Donna Cochran McLarty
The Honorable Lisa Monaco
Ambassador Anne W. Patterson
Ambassador Nancy J. Powell
Ambassador Samantha Power
The Honorable Mike J. Rogers
Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield
The Honorable Heather Wilson
             BENEFIT STEERING COMMITTEE
Kristi Rogers, Principal to Principal, Benefit Chair
Anita Botti, Consultant
Mary Brady, The Economic Club of Washington, DC
Dawn Calabia, Consultant
Allison Ford, United Technologies
Theresa Loar, BSR
Michele Lynch, Google
Shaista Mahmood, US-Pakistan Women’s Council
Gebe Martinez, GM Networking
Missy Owens, The Coca-Cola Company
Lois Romano
Ambassador Catherine M. Russell
The Honorable Ann S. Stock, Meridian International Center
Meaghan VerGow, ​O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Maureen White, Johns Hopkins SAIS


THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
Benefactor:
United Technologies
Embassy of the State of Qatar

Patrons:
Google
Host Hotels & Resorts
Northrop Grumman
Lois Romano
Ambassador Catherine M. Russell
Maureen White and Steven Rattner

Sponsors:
The Coca-Cola Company | O'Melveny & Myers LLP | Principal to Principal
Anita Botti | Mary and Jeffrey Brady | Theresa Loar
Ambassador Ray and Shaista Mahmood | Gebe Martinez | Donna C. McLarty

Partners:
Cultural Vistas | RTI International | Elisabeth Bumiller | Dane A. Nichols
Ambassador Anne W. Patterson | Evan Ryan | Beth Solomon

Embassy Wine Donors:
Embassy of Argentina | Embassy of Australia | Embassy of Chile
Embassy of Georgia | Embassy of Italy | Embassy of Liechtenstein
Embassy of New Zealand | Embassy of North Macedonia | Embassy of Slovakia

2019 DIPLOMATIC HONORARY COMMITTEE
Ambassador Roya Rahmani, Embassy of Afghanistan | Ambassador Floreta Faber, Embassy of Albania | Ambassador Madjid Bouguerra, Embassy of Algeria | Ambassador Elisenda Vives Balmaña, Embassy of Andorra | Ambassador Sir Ronald Sanders, Embassy of Antigua and Barbuda | Ambassador Fernando Oris de Roa, Embassy of Argentina | Ambassador Varuzhan Nersesyan, Embassy of Armenia | Ambassador Joe Hockey, Embassy of Australia | Ambassador Dirk Wouters, Embassy of Belgium | Ambassador Tihomir Stoytchev, Embassy of Bulgaria | Ambassador Henri Etoundi Essomba, Embassy of Cameroon | Ambassador Ngote Gali Koutou, Embassy of Chad | Ambassador Alfonso Silva Navarro, Embassy of Chile | Ambassador Fernando Llorca Castro, Embassy of Costa Rica | Ambassador Hynek Kmonícek, Embassy of the Czech Republic | Ambassador Mohamed Siad Doualeh, Embassy of Djibouti | Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov, Embassy of Estonia | Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis, Delegation of the European Union | Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi, Embassy of Finland | Ambassador David Bakradze, Embassy of Georgia | Ambassador Dr. Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah, Embassy of Ghana | Ambassador Dr. Riyad Insanally, Embassy of Guyana | Ambassador Bergdís Ellertsdóttir, Embassy of Iceland | Ambassador Daniel Gerard Mulhall, Embassy of Ireland | Ambassador Audrey P. Marks, Embassy of Jamaica | Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama, Embassy of Japan | Ambassador Dina Kawar, Embassy of Jordan | Ambassador Sankatana Gabriel Maja, Embassy of Lesotho | Ambassador Wafa M. T. Bughaighis, Embassy of Libya | Ambassador Kurt Jaeger, Embassy of Liechtenstein | Ambassador Rolandas Krisciunas, Embassy of Lithuania | Ambassador Gaston Stronck, Embassy of Luxembourg | Chargé d'Affaires Marigona Marku, Embassy of North Macedonia | Ambassador Edward Y. Sawerengera, Embassy of Malawi | Ambassador Martha Bárcena Coqui, Embassy of Mexico | Ambassador Maguy Maccario Doyle, Embassy of Monaco | Ambassador André Haspels, Embassy of the Netherlands | Ambassador Kåre R. Aas, Embassy of Norway | Ambassador Hunaina Sultan Ahmed Al Mughairy, Embassy of Oman | Ambassador Hugo de Zela, Embassy of Peru | Ambassador Jose Manuel G. Romualdez, Embassy of the Philippines | Ambassador Piotr Wilczek, Embassy of Poland | Ambassador Sheikh Meshal Bin Hamad Al Thani, Embassy of Qatar | Ambassador Mathilde Mukantabana, Embassy of Rwanda | Princess Reema bint Bandar, Embassy of Saudi Arabia | Ambassador Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Embassy of Singapore | Ambassador Ivan Korcok, Embassy of Slovakia | Chargé d'Affaires Yoliswa Mvebe, Embassy of South Africa | Ambassador Niermala Sakoentala Badrising, Embassy of Suriname | Ambassador Karin Ulrika Olofsdotter, Embassy of Sweden | Ambassador Thani Thongphakdi, Embassy of Thailand | Ambassador Isilio Coelho, Embassy of Timor-Leste | Ambassador Fayçal Gouia, Embassy of Tunisia | Ambassador Dr. Carlos Alberto Gianelli Derois, Embassy of Uruguay