Michèle Flournoy interviewed on McChrystal Group podcast No Turning Back

"In our twenty-first episode, Stan McChrystal and Chris Fussell are joined by former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy. Michèle has also served as CEO of the Center for a New American Security, and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors. Together, they discuss the lessons Michèle has brought with her in her transition from government to private sector work, how leaders should be thinking through their first 100 days in a new role, and where leaders need to invite [...]

2020-10-23T17:18:43-04:00October 18, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense, Social Impact|

Michèle Flournoy signs “Aspen Strategy Group Statement on National Service”

"As our nation faces an unprecedented set of crises—pandemic, recession, racial injustice—Americans must respond with bold measures that will unite our country, expand economic opportunity, and help our country recover. We in the Aspen Strategy Group believe a new National Service mission must be part of that response. Our group of Republican and Democratic foreign policy professionals calls upon Congress and the White House to commit to a major initiative to make national service a reality..." Read the full statement here: [...]

2020-10-20T16:26:15-04:00October 15, 2020|Social Impact|

Michèle Flournoy co-authors report with Avril Haines and Gabrielle Chefitz, “Building Trust through Testing”

"The United States is at an inflection point in an age of mounting transnational threats, unprecedented global interdependence, and resurgent great power competition. This moment is taking place in the context of a technological revolution that exacerbates the challenges we face while simultaneously offering potential solutions, providing breakthroughs in climate, medicine, communications, transportation, intelligence, and many other fields. Many of these breakthroughs will come through the exploitation of artificial intelligence (AI) and its related technologies—chief among them machine learning (ML). [...]

2021-05-20T18:37:36-04:00October 6, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Michèle Flournoy featured in Task and Purpose article, “[Flournoy] Says Using National Guard on Election Day Would Be Unhealthy for Democracy”

"'We don’t declare election winners – validate election winners – until all votes are counted,' Flournoy said. 'We don’t, as Americans, take up arms to contest free and fair elections once they’ve been validated. If a president loses the vote in the Electoral College, he agrees to leave office on Jan. 20...'" Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-10-20T16:44:18-04:00September 30, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Michèle Flournoy quoted in POLITICO Pro article, “[Flournoy] Condemns Election Intimidation”

"In an event Wednesday, Michele Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense for policy under President Barack Obama, called Trump's suggestion 'disturbing,' noting that people acting as independently at polling stations on election day could be 'very intimidating to voters...'" Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-10-20T16:45:50-04:00September 30, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Michèle Flournoy speaks at New America’s Future Security Forum, “Reinventing National Security in the Era of COVID-19”

Michèle Flounory speaks with General Joseph Votel and Peter Bergen about how COVID influences our conceptualization of national security, civil-military relations, and ongoing and upcoming national security challenges for the United States. Watch the full event here: Full Event

2020-10-23T17:41:26-04:00September 21, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Michèle Flournoy interviewed in Bloomberg article, “…Trump’s Damage to Military”

"'Unless we have a new leadership that our allies believe they can count on, I don’t believe our alliances can survive another four years of what they’ve just experienced,' Flournoy said in an interview on Tuesday. 'That will leave the U.S. much more alone in the world and much less able to address shared interests, whether it’s climate change, nonproliferation, the next pandemic...'” Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-09-30T22:40:54-04:00September 9, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense|

Michèle Flournoy profiled in Foreign Affairs Career Center article, “How I Got Here: Michèle Flournoy”

"[As a kid, I wanted to be] An architect. I loved engineering, drafting floor plans, designing fantasy houses. I figured out how to convert my uncle’s house to solar power (at least in my head). My high school had an engineering and architecture program, and I took everything in it, went to the state fair, all that stuff. I was lucky to have a college counselor who said, 'It’s hard to know what you really want to do when you’re 16. [...]

2020-09-30T22:03:11-04:00September 9, 2020|WestExec Spotlight|

Michèle Flournoy writes with Camille Stewart in CNN: “Where We Need the Most Diverse Team of Advisers for US Safety”

"Joe Biden's selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate is a powerful statement of his commitment to ensuring that all Americans feel part of our democracy -- that government of the people, by the people and for the people applies to all Americans, be they men or women, White or Black, Asian or Latino, gay or straight, recent immigrants or descendants of families who have been here for generations. The Biden-Harris ticket is the first in US history to [...]

2020-09-18T15:38:14-04:00September 2, 2020|Cybersecurity & Defense, Social Impact|
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