Jerry Brown and Bill Perry join the Annual Meeting and Dinner

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2019 Annual Dinner and Meeting

Thursday, November 7, 2019

12-5pm Annual Meeting | 6-9pm Annual Dinner

Afternoon Lineup

Plenary Speakers

Edmund G. Brown Jr., Former Governor, State of California Jerry Brown is the executive chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He served an historic four terms as Governor of the State of California; during the last two terms, his administration established nation-leading targets to protect the environment and fight climate change. Brown has been sounding the alarm about the risks of nuclear weapons since the 1970s; his position with the Bulletin continues his work on climate change, nuclear risk.

William J. Perry,  Former US Secretary of Defense Dr. William Perry is chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors. He served as US Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1997, leading efforts to secure nuclear stockpiles inherited by former Soviet states and presiding over the dismantlement of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons. In 2013, Perry created the William J. Perry Project to engage and educate the public on the dangers of nuclear weapons in the 21st century, a danger that he states is greater now than during the height of the Cold War.

Discussion Sessions

Meeting speakers below; additional experts and Science and Security Board members to be announced

Asha M. George
Executive Director, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense

Brett Goldstein
Director, Defense Digital Service

Robert Latiff
Major General (Ret.), US Airforce; Adjunct Faculty Member, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, University of Notre Dame; Research Professor, George Mason University.

Steven Miller
Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; member, Science and Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Judith Reppy
Professor Emerita and Graduate School Professor, Department of Science and Technology, Cornell University

Robert Socolow
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University; member, Science and Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Elizabeth Talerman
Partner, Brand and Organizational Strategy, NucleusStrategy

Evening Lineup
Visit the Bulletin website to meet the Annual Dinner speakers