Smart Women, Smart Power

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Smart Women, Smart Power

CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power is a speaker series on women in international business and global affairs. The biweekly podcast features leading women from the corporate, government, and national security worlds discussing top international issues.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Building Comprehensive Approaches to Wicked Problems: The Ukraine War

    As a part of the tenth-anniversary celebration of Smart Women, Smart Power, Dr. Kathleen McInnis hosted a panel discussion that explored women’s leadership during Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine and how women are leading the charge in both prosecuting the war and planning for peace. The panel featured Amb. Kelley Currie, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council and former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues; Dr. Kyleanne Hunter, Director, RAND Women, Peace, and Security Initiative and Senior Political Scientist; Ms. Susan Markham, Co-Author, Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice and Partner, Smash Strategies; and Ms. Shelly Stoneman, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Lockheed Martin.

    1h 19m

  2. OCT 23

    Pentagon Priorities Amid Polycrises with Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks

    On October 15, Smart Women, Smart Power celebrated its tenth anniversary! The celebration kicked off with a discussion with HON Kathleen H. Hicks, Deputy Secretary of Defense, who sat down with Beverly Kirk, Director of Washington Programs at Syracuse University. The pair discussed her approach to the world’s simultaneous challenges, including the Russia-Ukraine crisis and China - plus she takes a lot of questions from the audience.

    39 min

  3. OCT 21

    The State of Election Security in 2024

    Suzanne Spaulding, Director of the CSIS Defending Democratic Institutions Project, joins a special crossover episode with the CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power podcast to discuss election security, the role of election officials, and how to fight disinformation as early voting begins across the nation.

    26 min

  4. SEP 23

    A Conversation with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi

    Dr. Kathleen McInnis sat down with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for a conversation on her new memoir, where she reflects on her time in Congress. Additionally, the pair discusses the current and future U.S. landscape, including what the U.S. should be doing to counter China’s aggressive authoritarian expansionism and more.

    23 min

  5. SEP 4

    Take a Chance on Mentorship

    An off-chance encounter as an intern transformed Funmi’s life several years later when someone she networked with early in her career thought of her down the line and offered her a job. Funmi Oludaiye, Managing Director (Global Head of Engineering) at Goldman Sachs, discusses how she advanced her career in STEM through hard work, mentorship, and relationship building.

    23 min

  6. AUG 28

    Solving the World’s Hardest Problems with Mellody Hobson: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

    Mellody Hobson, co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments — created Ariel Alternatives, the first private equity subsidiary of the 40-year-old investment firm, alongside its current CEO Les Brun. On this Smart Women, Smart Power episode, Mellody joins Dr. Kathleen McInnis for a discussion on how she strives to close the racial wealth gap and create a better public understanding of financial literacy.   This episode is made possible through general support to Smart Women, Smart Power.

    32 min

  7. AUG 21

    Secrets and Sacrifices: CIA, Benghazi, and Motherhood

    After 25 years working for the CIA, the Honorable Sue Gordon has served the United States across administrations. She joins Dr. Kathleen McInnis and Lauren Bedula, the Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies, for a conversation on how she balanced it all as a mother of two—plus, she’ll get into her time in the CIA during the 2012 Benghazi attacks – where the realization came that secrets just aren’t what they used to be.

    48 min

  8. JUL 24

    What Does Infant Formula Have to do with National Security?

    In 2020, Laura Modi launched Bobbie, the first U.S.-based manufactured organic formula company. Laura joins Dr. Kathleen McInnis and Lauren Bedula, the Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies, for a discussion on how her company was defined during a national infant formula shortage, including what she learned about the infant formula industry, and how symbolic it is to everything broken in our society for parents.

    37 min
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CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power is a speaker series on women in international business and global affairs. The biweekly podcast features leading women from the corporate, government, and national security worlds discussing top international issues.

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  • Channel
    CSIS
  • Creator
    CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    232
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © CSIS 2018
  • Show Website
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