National Press Club member Gil Klein invites fellow members to attend the 2023 Global Security Forum sponsored by the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Center for Intelligence and National Security, March 7.
Beginning at 9 a.m., the day-long program is being held in person in the Club's Holeman Lounge. It will focus on current and future challenges to global security in an ever-changing landscape. Speakers will examine how the United States and its allies can defend democracy in an era of threats from authoritarian nations, especially from an increasingly assertive China and Russia. Questions from participants will be welcomed.
There’s no charge for admission for the program that will include lunch and end at 3:45 p.m. More information is available online.
Among the speakers will be Shigeru Kitamura, a former national aecurity adviser of the Government of Japan, known as the Secretary-General of National Security Secretariat (NSS); Simon McGee, a former U.K. senior civil servant and director of government communication, Cabinet Office, Government of the United Kingdom; and Feroz Bashari, former director of communications, office of the President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, who for several years was the chief spokesman for the government.
