Space Diplomacy Lab Webinar
Wednesday, October 15th at 3pm ET
Where Do We Stand on Securing Space?
Please join the Duke Space Diplomacy Lab (SDL) for a timely conversation with Dr. Esther D. Brimmer on space security, economy, and governance six months after the launch of the CFR’s task force report – Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action.
Esther D. Brimmer is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is writing a book on the need for better governance mechanisms to manage expanding human activities in outer space. Most recently, she served as project director for CFR’s task force report Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action.Previously she served as project director for a different CFR task force report titled Arctic Imperatives: Reinforcing U.S. Strategy on America’s Fourth Coast.
Her career spans service in government as a senior official, as a CEO, and as a faculty member at leading universities. She led U.S. policy in international organizations as the assistant secretary of state for International Organization Affairs earlier served on the State Department’s policy planning staff Brimmer was executive director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. She was the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She was the first deputy director and director of research at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
Brimmer has served in the private sector as a senior advisor at McLarty Associates, and earlier as an associate at McKinsey & Company. Early in her career, she was a senior associate at the Carnegie commission on preventing deadly conflict. Brimmer received her bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and master’s degree and doctorate from Oxford University.
This webinar is organized by the Rethinking Diplomacy’s Space Diplomacy Lab in collaboration with the Duke Space Initiative and support from the Sanford School of Public Policy, the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, and the course “Space Economics” (ECON 390) in the Department of Economics.
For more information please contact us at rethinking.diplomacy@duke.edu.
