Navy Birthday, IAEA & John Kerry in the Week Ahead

Iraq, Iran, ISIS — all of those are the subject of events in Washington, D.C., this week, along with the subjects in the headline, Ukraine and much more.

Monday:

Three Navy officials — Kevin Cooley, Fleet Cyber Command executive director and command information officer; Victor Gavin, program executive officer of enterprise information system; and Matthew Swartz, deputy chief of national operations for information dominance — appear at an event celebrating the service’s birthday (albeit a little belatedly), put on by the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.

Former Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen speaks at a book event hosted by the Eurasia Center’s International Security Program alongside author Carter Andress, a retired Army infantry officer, who wrote “Victory Undone: The Defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Its Resurrection as ISIS.”

Tuesday:

The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations‘ two-day annual conference brings in a slate of speakers that includes a number of current and former foreign diplomats to talk about “Framing and Charting the Region’s Issues, Interests, Challenges, and Opportunities: Implications for Arab and U.S. Policies.”

Ukrainian Ambassador Olexander Motsyk speaks at the University of Maryland (then speaks again Wednesday at an event hosted by The Diplomatic Courier, alongside a handful of other ambassadors).

Wednesday:

The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic join forces for their annual Washington Ideas Forum; Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and David Cohen, undersecretary of Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence are the Wednesday national security/foreign policy highlights, with Secretary of State John Kerry (@johnkerry) up Thursday.

Thursday:

Former top national security officials for President George W. Bush — Robert M. Gates, Frances Townsend (@frantownsend) and John Negroponte — appear alongside Adam Karcher, deputy director of the Office of Data Exploitation at the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a wide-ranging event sponsored by SAP National Security Services.

U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah (@rajshah) speaks at an afternoon forum on public-private partnerships in global development, put together by the University of Notre Dame.

Friday:

Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, discusses the IAEA role on Iran’s nuclear program at the Brookings Institution.

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