On Tuesday, November 19, 2019, Harvard Kennedy School students with the Economic Diplomacy Initiative, in partnership with HKS faculty, recreated a Situation Room meeting in front of a live audience. Members of the faculty and experts from the world of public policy, including Professors Ash Carter (former Secretary of Defense), Lawrence Summers (former Secretary of the Treasury), and Meghan O'Sullivan (former Deputy National Security Advisor), played roles on the United States National Security Council. They responded to a fictional scenario in which North Korea evades sanctions using digital Chinese currency, in order to obtain a nuclear warhead. In this video, the student organizers and members of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs team discuss how the event came together and provided a unique learning opportunity for the HKS community. You can view the event in its entirety at ken.sc/crisis-simulation.
Participants included:
Nicholas Burns
• Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations
• Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Ash Carter
• Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs
• Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
Jennifer Fowler
• Director, Brunswick Group
• Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Treasury Department
Gary Gensler
• Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management, Sloan School of Management, MIT
• Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Aditi Kumar
• Executive Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Neha Narula
• Director, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT
Meghan L. O’Sullivan
• Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs
Special Assistant and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
Eric Rosenbach
• Lecturer in Public Policy
• Co-Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
Lawrence H. Summers
• Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
• Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
• Director, National Economic Council
• Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Treasury Department
Richard Verma
• Vice Chair and Partner, The Asia Group
• Ambassador to India, U.S. Department of State
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