THE MARSHALL CENTER’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM:
THE RELEVANCE OF GEORGE C. MARSHALL’S VISION TO TRANSATLANTIC
RELATIONS TODAY
THE GEORGE C. MARSHALL HOUSE
LEESBURG, VIRGINIA
JUNE 5, 2017
DRAFT PROGRAM
9:00-9:30am
REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
9:30-10:00am
WELCOME
Patricia Magee Daly, President, George C. Marshall International
Center
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence (US Army, ret.), Board Chair, GCMIC
His Excellency David O’Sullivan, Ambassador of the European Union
to the United States of America
10:00am-12:00pm
PANEL – THE HISTORY OF THE MARSHALL PLAN: ITS ORIGINS
AND LEGACY
Moderator: Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Panelists:
Dr. Barry Machado, Washington & Lee (ret.), “New Light on the
Origins of the Marshall Plan”
Nico Lange, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA, “Adenauer,
the Marshall Plan, and a Coordinated European Economy”
Dr. Guenter Bischof, University New Orleans, “After All These Years:
The Marshall Plan is Alive and Well in Austria”
12:00-2:00pm
BUFFET LUNCH
INTRODUCTION OF KEY NOTE SPEAKER
John (Jay) B. Adams, Board Chair, George C. Marshall Foundation
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
2:00-4:00pm
PANEL – THE RELEVANCE OF THE MARSHALL PLAN:
SECURITY, RELIEF, AND RECONSTRUCTION
Moderator: David Ignatius, author and columnist, Washington Post
Panelists:
Derek Chollet, German Marshall Fund of the US, “The Marshall
Legacy in an Era of Disorder”
Dr. Eliot Sorel, George Washington University, “The Marshall Plan:
Is it Relevant to the Twenty-First Century?”
Stephen Gannon, Independent Food Security Consultant, “Food
Security as Global and National (in)Security, a Field Perspective”
4:00-4:30pm
CLOSING REMARKS
Col. David Gray (US Army, ret.), Director, Center for Leadership and
Ethics, Virginia Military Institute
Dr. Heinz Fischer, Immediate Past President of Austria
4:30-6:00pm
RECEPTION ON THE MARSHALL HOUSE STONE COURT PATIO
6:00-7:00pm
CONCERT FOR THE COMMUNITY
U.S. Army Brass Quintet from The U.S. Army Band