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WestExec Spotlight: Michael Camilleri

WestExec’s Spotlight Series highlights the issues some of our team members focus on. This week’s Spotlight features Michael Camilleri, former Western Hemisphere advisor on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and Director for Andean Affairs at the National Security Council from 2012-2017. Latin America: The United States has strong economic ties to its Western Hemisphere neighbors, but corruption and institutional fragility in the region, at times exacerbated by mixed messages from Washington, can make navigating business interests difficult. Michael helps [...]

2020-08-07T08:15:24-04:00August 6, 2020|WestExec Spotlight|
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Bob Work quoted in Defense Systems article, “Could A New Academy Solve the AI Talent Problem?”

"'We think we have a lot of talent inside the military that we just aren't aware of,' Work said. "To remedy that, Work said the commission recommends a grading, via a programming proficiency test, to identify government and military workers that have software development experience. The recommendations also include a computational thinking component to the armed services' vocational aptitude battery to better identify incoming talent..." Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-08-07T08:26:47-04:00August 5, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense, Social Impact|
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Matt Waxman quoted in Inside Security article, “FCC Seeks Input on Regulatory Review Of ‘Section 230’ Liability Protection; Issues Touch on Countering Disinformation”

"Columbia’s Waxman told Inside Cybersecurity that 'foreign disinformation campaigns remain a huge threat and the United States is still working to develop the tools to combat them.' "Waxman said, 'One reason why it's hard to combat disinformation through regulation is because while we need to protect our democracy from foreign interference, in our democratic system we don't generally believe the government should be policing speech and expression...'" Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-08-07T08:31:52-04:00August 4, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|
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Bridge Colby quoted in Foreign Policy article, “Trump Looks to Arms Sales to Deepen Ties With India”

"'If there is still anybody in India who thought that a nice peaceful relationship with Beijing was a possibility, that’s gone,' said Elbridge Colby, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense during the Trump administration. "'It’s going to put a lot of those traditional hindrances farther and farther behind us. This old trope that the U.S. and India is the partnership of the future and always will be—that’s no longer the case...'" Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-08-07T08:22:01-04:00August 4, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|
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Michèle Flournoy and Gabrielle Chefitz interviewed on the Defense and Aerospace Report podcast, “Critical Steps for the Next Administration”

"On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests, from WestExec Advisors, Michèle Flournoy and Gabrielle Chefitz, co-authors of the CNAS report: 'Sharpening the U.S. Military’s Edge: Critical Steps for the Next Administration' discuss key points from the report and offer their advice to future national security leaders on the urgent agenda needed moving forward..." Listen to the full episode here: Full Episode

2020-08-07T08:17:56-04:00August 3, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|
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Lisa Monaco quoted in The Washington Post article, “After the Anita Hill Hearings In 1991, Joe Biden Began A Long Quest to Redeem Himself with Women”

"Lisa Monaco, who worked as a low-level staffer on the Judiciary Committee from 1992 to 1994, said the office culture was dominated by women. Biden had appointed women as his staff director, chief counsel and chief crime counsel. "'Here was a group of women who were in charge. They ran the committee staff, they advised on the policy — and they had been empowered by Joe Biden,' she said. 'It was very formative for me as a young woman seeing these [...]

2020-08-07T08:29:16-04:00August 2, 2020|News|
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Jay Shambaugh quoted in Slate article, “The Extremely Boring Idea That Could Save the Economy”

"We could have avoided this nationwide facepalm if unemployment benefits were designed to rise and fall with the health of the economy, in the first place. 'Automatic stabilizers prevent you from cutting off things too soon,' George Washington University professor Jay Shambaugh, who co-edited Recession Ready, and served on Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, told me. 'The idea that the unemployment rate is higher than at any point in the Great Recession and we’re about to pull support from the economy—that’s [...]

2020-08-07T08:24:12-04:00July 31, 2020|Economy & Trade|
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Ely Ratner quoted in The Hill article, “Biden, Under Trump Attack, Casts Himself as Firm on China”

"'The fundamental argument that the campaign is putting forward is, under Trump, China’s position is stronger while the United States' has grown weaker,' said Ely Ratner, who served as deputy national security adviser to Biden during the Obama administration from 2015 to 2017. "'This notion of positioning the United States to out-compete China is at the core of the vice president’s agenda,' Ratner added..." Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-08-01T12:43:17-04:00July 30, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|
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Bob Work quoted in Federal Computer Week article, “Could A New Academy Solve the AI Talent Problem?”

"Robert Work, former deputy secretary of defense who is now NSCAI's vice chair, said the academy would bring in people who want to serve in government and would graduate students to serve as full time federal employees at GS-7 to GS-11 pay grade. Members of the digital corps would [serve] five years at 38 days a year helping government agencies figure out how to best implement AI... "'We think we have a lot of talent inside the military that we just [...]

2020-08-01T12:15:40-04:00July 29, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense, Social Impact|
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