Electronic Media Kit Melissa Lockhart Fortner Chief Communications Officer Pacific Council on International Policy 213-221-2016 (direct) 909-525-8557 (cell) [email protected]

Contents BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE PACIFIC COUNCIL ................................................................. 3 Mission and Overview .................................................................................................................................... 3 Board of Directors ............................................................................................................................................ 4 FAQs ........................................................................................................................................................................... 6 What is the Pacific Council? .......................................................................................................................... 6 What does the Pacific Council do? ............................................................................................................. 6 Who are the members of the Pacific Council? ....................................................................................... 6 How is the Pacific Council governed? ....................................................................................................... 6 How is the Pacific Council funded? ............................................................................................................ 6 Members Weekend .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Spring Conference ............................................................................................................................................ 7 Distinguished Speakers .................................................................................................................................. 7 Conference Calls ................................................................................................................................................ 7 International Trips and Country Dialogues............................................................................................ 8 FEATURED EXPERT ............................................................................................................................................. 9 SOCIAL MEDIA .................................................................................................................................................... 10 HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC COUNCIL .......................................................................................................... 11

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE PACIFIC COUNCIL Mission and Overview The Pacific Council is committed to building the vast potential of the West Coast for impact on global issues, discourse, and policy.   

We inform and engage leaders and galvanize them to effect change on global issues; We build strong networks to stimulate informed dialogue and collaboration; Our work emphasizes issues where we are positioned to have maximum impact.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Pacific Council is governed by a Board of Directors chaired by Marc B. Nathanson, Chairman of Mapleton Investments, and Ambassador Robert H. Tuttle, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Dr. Jerrold D. Green serves as the President and CEO. Founded in 1995 in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations and the University of Southern California (USC), the Pacific Council is an independent 501c(3) not-profit organization. Its work is made possible by financial contributions and in-kind support from individuals, corporations, foundations, and other organizations. Nomenclature: When referring to the Pacific Council on International Policy, any abbreviated mentions should refer to the “Pacific Council” or “the Council” (not “PCIP”).

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Board of Directors Mr. Marc B. Nathanson, Chairman, Mapleton Investments; Chair, U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (1995-2002); Vice Chair, National Democratic Institute; Board of Governors, East-West Center Ambassador Robert H. Tuttle (Co-Chair), Co-Managing Partner, Tuttle-Click Automotive Group Dr. Jerrold D. Green, President & CEO, Pacific Council on International Policy ----Ms. Nancy A. Aossey, President & CEO, International Medical Corps Mr. Sonny H. Astani, Chairman, Astani Enterprises, Inc. Ambassador Frank E. Baxter, Chairman Emeritus, Jefferies & Company, Inc. Honorable Howard Berman, Senior Advisor, Covington & Burling LLP Mr. Austin Beutner, Former First Deputy Mayor & Chief Executive for Economic and Business Policy, City of Los Angeles Mrs. Lynn Booth, President, The Otis Booth Foundation; President, The Clement and Lynn Hirsch Foundation Ms. Elise Buik, President & CEO, United Way of Greater Los Angeles Honorable John E. Bryson, Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce; Former Chairman & CEO, Edison International Ms. Louise Henry Bryson, Chair Emerita, Board of Trustees, J. Paul Getty Trust Honorable Michael C. Camuñez, President, Manatt Jones Global Strategies Mr. Alexander L. Cappello, Chairman & CEO, Cappello Group, Inc. Mr. Charles C.Y. Chen, Chairman, Eyon Holding Group; Vice Chairman, Taiwan Air Cargo Terminal Corp. and Taiwan Insurance Co. Mr. John F. Cooke, CEO, Western Territories Group, LLC Mr. Geoffrey Cowan, University Professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California; President, Sunnylands Trust Mr. Robert Eckert, Chairman of the Board, Mattel Dr. Bradford W. Edgerton, Partner, So. Cal. Permanente Medical Group; President, Edgerton Foundation

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Mr. Richard B. Goetz, Partner, O’Melveney & Myers LLP Mr. Russell Goldsmith, Chairman & CEO, City National Bank Ms. Ellen Hancock, Former Chairman & CEO, Exodus Communications Ms. Antonia Hernández, President & CEO, California Community Foundation Ambassador David Huebner, Partner, Arnold & Portner, LLP Honorable Mel Levine, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Ms. Nancy Lieberman, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP Mr. Robert W. Liu, President, Tireco, Inc. Mr. Robert W. Lovelace, President, Capital Research & Management Company Ambassador Vilma Martinez, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (2009-2013) Ambassador Susan McCaw, President, COM Investments Mr. Steven S. Myers, Chairman & CEO, Dolphin Capital Holdings, Inc. Dr. Sharon Nazarian, President, Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation Mr. William H. Neukom, Chair & Partner, K & L Gates Mr. Scott Olivet, Executive Chairman, RED Digital Cinema; Chairman, Oakley, Inc.; CEO, Renegade Brands, LLC; Non-Executive Chairman, Collective Brands, Inc Ms. Jane Olson, Chair, Board of Trustees, Human Rights Watch (2004-2010) Mr. Nelson C. Rising, CEO, Rising Realty Partners Mr. Fredric D. Rosen, Former CEO, Ticketmaster Ambassador Rockwell Schnabel, Chairman, Sage Capital, L.P. Mr. Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO, Global Eagle Acquisition Dr. Cynthia A. Telles, Director, Spanish-Speaking Psychosocial Clinic, Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital, UCLA School of Medicine Dr. Ernest Wilson, Dean, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California

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FAQs What is the Pacific Council? The Pacific Council is a membership-based international affairs organization headquartered in Los Angeles. The mission of the Pacific Council is to build the vast potential of the West Coast for impact on global issues, discourse, and policy. Founded in 1995 in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations and the University of Southern California (USC), the Pacific Council is a private, independent, non-partisan, non-profit 501c(3) organization incorporated in the state of California.

What does the Pacific Council do? The Pacific Council informs and engages leaders on the West Coast, galvanizing them to effect change on global issues, discourse, and policy. Our membership network is built on a shared commitment to international affairs and strengthened by frequent dialogue and collaboration. Through the briefings, roundtables, conferences, panel discussions, and international delegations we convene, we provide regular opportunities for our members to exchange ideas with policymakers and opinion leaders from the United States and around the world.

Who are the members of the Pacific Council? Pacific Council members are globally-oriented business, civic, academic, and government leaders on the west coast of the United States and worldwide.

How is the Pacific Council governed? The Council is governed by a distinguished Board of Directors comprised of former U.S. government cabinet members, business and academic leaders, heads of major nonprofits, and opinion shapers from a variety of other key sectors. The Board is co-chaired by Mr. Marc Nathanson, Chairman of Mapleton Investments, and Ambassador Robert H. Tuttle, former U.S. Ambassador to the UK. Dr. Jerrold D. Green is the President and CEO of the Pacific Council.

How is the Pacific Council funded? The Pacific Council is an independent 501c(3) not-profit organization. Its activities are made possible by financial contributions and in-kind support from foundations, corporations, individuals, and governmental organizations.

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ANNUAL PROGRAMS Members Weekend Recognized widely as the West Coast’s premier foreign policy forum, the Pacific Council’s Members Weekend has been our signature annual event from the start. With a format designed to be deeply engaging to all participants, this invitation-only summit convenes 250-300 business, government, civic, and academic leaders from around the world to analyze and debate the most important global policy issues of our time. The conference, which takes place in Santa Monica, includes high-level policy addresses, lively discussion and debate, and opportunities to meet and interact with peers and colleagues. (Annually in the fall – October 9-10, 2015)

Spring Conference An event designed for members and by members, the annual Spring Conference taps insight and expertise from within our membership network. With ample time for mingling, refreshment, and conversation between sessions, Spring Conference participants convene for a day of debate and exchange with fellow Council members during panel discussions, roundtable dialogues, and a highlevel keynote interview. (Annually in the spring)

Distinguished Speakers The Pacific Council convenes meetings and roundtables covering a variety of timely international issues. Recent speakers have included National Security Agency Director Admiral Michael S. Rogers, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs (1997-2000) Hon. Thomas Pickering, U.S. Special Envoy for Syria Daniel Rubinstein, President of the European Commission the Honorable José Manuel Barroso, U.S. Senator John McCain (RArizona), U.S. Senior Senator of California Dianne Feinstein, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert Gates, United States Secretary of the Navy the Honorable Raymond Mabus, 61st Secretary of State the Honorable James A. Baker, III, former Ambassador to Israel and Egypt Daniel Kurtzer, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Ms. Roberta S. Jacobson, Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Eduardo Medina-Mora, the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Honorable Condoleezza Rice, the Honorable James B. Steinberg, General Stanley A. McChrystal, General James Mattis, and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Lady Catherine Ashton, among others. Speakers meet with Pacific Council members for in-depth discussions of global affairs. (Throughout the year)

Conference Calls Our ongoing teleconference series connects members from across the country and world to experts and policymakers in order to address timely issues: recent calls have included a conversation on extremism in the horn of Africa with Dr. Anneli Botha, Senior Researcher of terrorism with the Institute of Security Studies in Pretoria, Mr. Coy Isaacs, Regional Coordinator of East and Southern Africa with International Medical Corps, and moderated by Dr. Mietek P. Boduszynski, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Pomona College; the nuclear negotiations with Iran with Mr. Joseph Cirincione, President of Ploughshares Fund, and Dr. Michael Doran, Senior

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Fellow at the Hudson Institute; the foreign policy priorities in President Obama’s seventh State of the Union moderated by Ms. Jessica Yellin, former CNN Chief White House Correspondent; the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre with Dr. Bassma Kodmani, Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative, and Dr. John R. "Jack" Miles, Director of Religious Studies at UC Irvine; on artifact repatriation with Dr. James Cuno, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust; and on Russia and conflict in Ukraine with Mr. Demosthenes J. Peterson, President of Longview Global Advisors and Ms. Olga Oliker, Senior International Policy Analyst at RAND Corporation. (Throughout the year)

International Trips and Country Dialogues The inaugural Pacific Council Country Dialogue took place December 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. This was the first of numerous visits to global hot spots and places of concern and interest; additional delegations have since traveled to Poland, Germany, Turkey, Iraq, Guatemala, North Korea, Myanmar, Cuba and others. The primary product of these trips is the ability of Pacific Council members to witness events and developments on the ground and to share insights from these experiences with members of the Council. These fact-finding missions are scheduled to occur approximately once per quarter. The most recent delegations visited Tijuana, Mexico in April 2015, and Warsaw, Poland and Berlin, Germany in October 2014. Additionally, in 2013 the Pacific Council was granted special Observer status at the Military Commission hearings in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The Council nominates and sends delegates, when permitted, to represent the Council and record observations in the form of Observer reports.

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FEATURED EXPERT Dr. Jerrold D. Green President & CEO Middle East expert Dr. Jerrold D. Green is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. He is also a Research Professor of Communications at the University of Southern California (USC). He has served as Senior Advisor for Middle East/South Asia and Director of the Middle East Development Council at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and before that, as Director of International Programs and Development, overseeing the activities of the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy as well as the Center for Russia and Eurasia. At the same time he directed RAND’s Center for Middle East Public Policy. From 2004-2006, he served as a Partner and Executive Vice President for International Operations at Best Associates in Dallas, Texas, a privately held merchant banking firm with global operations. Dr. Green's career began at the University of Michigan, where he was a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies. He subsequently joined the University of Arizona, where he became a Professor of Political Science and Sociology as well as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Green has a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts/Boston, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in the politics of the Middle East. He uses Arabic, French, Hebrew, and Persian in his work and has lived and worked in Iran, Israel, and Egypt, where he was a Fulbright Fellow. Green has written widely on Middle East themes focusing on American Middle East policy, the role of religion in the region, inter-Arab relations, Iranian politics, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His work has appeared in such publications as World Politics, Comparative Politics, Ethics and International Affairs, Survival, Middle East Insight, Politique Etrangere, The World Today, The RAND Review, The Harvard Journal of World Affairs, The Iranian Journal of International Relations, and The Huffington Post. Dr. Green is also currently a member of the United States Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel, a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, a Reserve Deputy Sheriff with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, and a Specialist Reserve Police Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, where he advises on terrorism and Middle East issues.

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SOCIAL MEDIA The Pacific Council engages with its members and the wider public on several different social media platforms. We regularly post program and Council updates, member activity, and news and analysis on both Facebook and Twitter. We strongly encourage all our members, speakers, staff and media to engage with us on these platforms. During in-person programs and teleconferences we live tweet events using the #pcevents hashtag. Following in-person programs we post photos on our Flickr account and, for select programs, video clips on our Youtube account. For those interested in engaging with us via social media our account information is as follows: Twitter: @PacCouncil (#pcevents) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PacificCouncil Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paccouncil/ Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/pacificcouncil

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HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC COUNCIL The Pacific Council was founded in 1995 in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York and the University of Southern California (USC). At that time, as the world was still collectively recoiling from the bipolar posture of the Cold War, the Council’s founders aimed to combat the impulse of the American people to turn inward—a tendency toward isolationism when the world was becoming increasingly interconnected. The leaders that launched the Council believed that the West Coast, not just the DC-New York corridor, had an important role to play in grappling with pressing global issues and developing improved U.S. foreign policy. A founding principle of the Council as a membership organization was to re-conceptualize U.S. foreign policy as a concern not only for foreign policy practitioners, but also leaders from sectors including business, media, politics, academia, and law. Nonpartisanship was established as a core principle: today, diversity remains a key component of the Council membership development, leadership selection, and programming, both in practice and principle. Since 1995, the Pacific Council has hosted structured exchanges on issues of international importance, convened experts and working groups to address pressing policy challenges, and built a network of globally-minded members across the West Coast and the world. Today the Pacific Council’s roster includes nearly 1,000 members, including former diplomats, industry leaders, media representatives, politicians and scholars. The Council is managed by a staff of fifteen employees with diverse backgrounds, and governed by a Board of Directors co-chaired by Marc Nathanson, Chairman of Mapleton Investments, and Ambassador Robert H. Tuttle, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Prominent members of the Pacific Council Board of Directors have included Mr. Robert F. Erburu, former Chairman of the Times Mirror Co. and founding Board Chairman of the Pacific Council; former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who followed Erburu as Board co-Chair; John Bryson, who served as co-Chair with Christopher and later Chair of the Pacific Council Board before his appointment as U.S. Secretary of Commerce; former Utah Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon M. Huntsman, former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Vilma Socorro Martínez, Chairman of Hang Lung Properties Limited Ronnie C. Chan and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, among others. The Pacific Council has enjoyed a deep, organic, and mutually beneficial relationship with the University of Southern California (USC) since its inception on USC campus. Each President of the Pacific Council—Dr. Abraham F. Lowenthal (1995-2005), Dr. Geoffrey Garrett (2005-2008), and Dr. Jerrold D. Green (2008-present)—has also held an academic appointment at USC that facilitates a relationship of joint programming, leadership collaboration, and connections among students, faculty, and Pacific Council members.

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