On Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, the Clements Center will welcome Jamie Fly, senior fellow and director of the future of geopolitics and Asia programs at The German Marshall Fund, and Laura Rosenberger, director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund for a talk at The University of Texas at Austin.
Fly is a senior fellow and director of the Future of Geopolitics and Asia programs at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). He also works with the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF. He served as counselor for foreign and national security affairs to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) from 2013–17, serving as his foreign policy adviser during his presidential campaign. Prior to joining Rubio's staff in February 2013, he served as the executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) from its founding in early 2009. Prior to joining FPI, Fly served in the Bush administration at the National Security Council (2008–09) and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (2005–08). He was director for counterproliferation strategy at the National Security Council, where his portfolio included the Iranian nuclear program, Syria, missile defense, chemical weapons, proliferation finance and other counterproliferation issues. In the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he was an assistant for transnational threats policy, where he helped to develop U.S. strategy related to the proliferation of missiles as well as nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. For his work in the Department of Defense, he was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service.
Prior to his service in government, Fly worked for the Republican National Committee on President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign in Ohio and on the 2005 Presidential Inaugural Committee. Additionally, Fly was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2002 to 2004, where he worked on European and national security issues. He has also worked at the World Bank. Fly was a 2004 German Marshall Fund Manfred Wörner Fellow, 2009 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow, and participated in the 2004 Aspen Institute Berlin's Transatlantic Young Leaders Program, the 2006 Atlantik Brücke German-America Young Leaders Conference, and the 2006 Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance, and participates in the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung's Global Atlanticists Program. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and his articles and reviews have been published in The Washington Post, ;The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, National Review, Politico, The Weekly Standard, Forbes.com, USA Today, USNews.com, and The Daily Caller and National Review Online. Fly received a B.A. in international studies and political science from American University and an M.A. in German and European studies from Georgetown University.
Rosenberger is director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Before she joined GMF, she was foreign policy adviser for Hillary for America, where she coordinated development of the campaign's national security policies, messaging and strategy. Prior to that, she served in a range of positions at the State Department and the White House's National Security Council (NSC). As chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken and earlier as then-Deputy National Security Adviser Blinken's senior adviser, she counseled on the full range of national security policy. In her role at the NSC, she also managed the interagency Deputies Committee, the U.S. government's senior-level interagency decision-making forum on our country's most pressing national security issues.
Rosenberger also has extensive background in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly Northeast Asia. She served as NSC director for China and Korea, managing and coordinating U.S. policy on China and the Korean Peninsula, and in a variety of positions focused on the Asia-Pacific region at the Department of State, including managing U.S.–China relations and addressing North Korea's nuclear programs. She also served as special assistant to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns, advising him on Asia-Pacific affairs and on nonproliferation and arms control issues. Rosenberger first joined the State Department as a Presidential Management Fellow. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and received her master's degree in international peace and conflict resolution from American University's School of International Service. She received her bachelors' degrees with honors from Penn State University's Schreyer Honors College in sociology, psychology and women's studies. She is originally from Pittsburgh and is an avid Steelers fan.
For more information on this event, contact Elizabeth Doughtie at elizabeth.doughtie@utexas.edu.