Inaugural ASU Washington Diplomatic Roundtable

The ASU Washington Diplomatic Roundtable is a quarterly event hosted by the University’s Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab, connecting Arizona State University (ASU) with the Washington foreign affairs community. This inaugural Roundtable launches ASU’s engagement in support of modernization of U.S. diplomacy. The American Diplomacy Project – Phase II, in collaboration with the Una Chapman Cox Foundation and ASU, will build on the original report published in 2020 by Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs entitled

The American Diplomacy Project: A U.S. Diplomatic Service for the 21st Century. Arizona State University, through its Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab, will now provide the new institutional home for assembling a detailed blueprint – a “workbook” – for carrying forward the original report’s plan for the revitalization and modernization of the United States Foreign Service. The work of the project will be directed by a team of former Ambassadors and will draw on extensive discussion with experts and current and former members of the Foreign Service.

Hosted by ASU’s Ambassador-in-Residence Michael C. Polt, this Roundtable featured the new Project Co-Chairs Ambassador Marc Grossman and Ambassador Marcie Ries, as well as comments by the Project’s leadership team. Ambassador Grossman was a co-author of A Foreign Service for the 21st Century. Ambassador Ries was a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center as well as a co-author of that report. Ambassador Polt is Co-Founder of ASU’s Leadership, Diplomacy, and National Security Lab.