Abstract
In a rapidly changing-- and increasingly dangerous-- geopolitical
environment, the United States has developed a strategy for meeting the
twin challenges of energy reliability and climate change—with an “all of
the above” approach. But does this nation’s energy objectives reflect
and address what is actually unfolding outside of Washington DC, as we
become increasingly reliant on natural gas, while nuclear plants are
being shuttered? Are we adequately preparing ourselves for a green
future?
Susan Eisenhower will discuss the political realities in the nation’s
capital, and offer some thoughts about what should be done to bring
about a more coherent national approach to one of the country’s most
important sectors.
About the speaker
Susan Eisenhower is the CEO and Chairman of
The Eisenhower Group, Inc. (EGI),
a Washington D.C. based consulting company founded in 1986. For more
than twenty-five years the company has provided strategic counsel on
business development, public affairs and communications projects. EGI
has advised Fortune 500 companies, not just in the United States, but
also abroad—in China, Russia, Central Asia and Western Europe for such
companies as American Express, IBM, Coca Cola, AES, Alcoa, and General
Electric.
In addition to her work through EGI, Susan Eisenhower has also had a
distinguished career as a policy analyst. She is Chairman Emeritus at
the
Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College,
where she served as president twice. She has also been a Fellow at
Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a Distinguished Fellow at the Nixon
Center, now called the Center for National Interest.
Over the years, she has served as a member of three blue ribbon
commissions for the Department of Energy for three different
secretaries: The Baker-Cutler Commission on U.S. Funded
Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia; The Sununu-Meserve Commission on
Nuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear
Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the
back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter of 2012. She was also
appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on
International Security and Arms Control, where she served eight years.
After as many years on the NASA Advisory Council, she served as a
commissioner on the International Space Station Management and Cost
Evaluation Task Force. She is currently a member of
MIT Energy Initiative's Advisory Board and co-chairman of NEAC, the Secretary of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Board.
In addition, Ms. Eisenhower has done extensive work in executive
training on strategic leadership. She has spoken on this subject in many
corporate venues, as well as at such distinguished institutions as the
United States Military Academy at West Point; the Foreign Policy
Association in New York; the Army War College, Carlisle; Sandia National
Laboratory, MIT and Australia’s Science and Technology Organization,
which is part of the Australian Ministry of Defence. Eisenhower holds a
year-long seminar on strategy for competitively selected students at the
Eisenhower Institute of Gettysburg College.
Eisenhower has authored hundreds of op-eds for newspapers such as the
Washington Post and the
LA Times,
appeared frequently on national television and radio, and her articles
have appeared in such journals as the National Academy of Sciences’
Issues in Science and Technology and the Naval Institutes’
Proceedings.
She has written four trade press books, two of which were on regional
best seller lists, and she co-authored or co-edited four other books on
international security issues.
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