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                      style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">July 8,
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                <div align="center"><font size="5">Former Spokesperson
                    US Department of State<br>
                    Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Anthony
                    J Blinken</font></div>
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                    style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">August
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                      August 8 2025  8:00 AM \u2013 9:15 AM KST Seoul JST
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                <span style="font-size:large">Dear Friend:       </span><span
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                  the virtual</span><span
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                  Symposium<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Veritas<span
                      class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>2025
                  with a particular emphasis on "US National Security
                  and World Affairs" on August 7, 2025, Washington DC.</span><span
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                    size="5">Ned Price most recently served as the
                    Deputy to the US Representative to the United
                    Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, overseeing the US
                    Mission to the United Nations\u2019 Washington office
                    and, as a Deputy Cabinet-level official, serving as
                    a standing member of the National Security Council\u2019s
                    Deputies Committee. Ned began his most recent stint
                    in government at the Department of State in January
                    2021, when he assumed the role of Department
                    Spokesperson, a title Ned held until March 2023. He
                    then served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of State
                    Antony J Blinken until Ned took on his leadership
                    role with the US Mission to the UN. </font></p>
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                    size="5">Prior to the State Department, Ned was
                    Co-Founder and Director of Policy and Communications
                    at National Security Action, a non-profit advocacy
                    organization. During the Obama Administration, he
                    served as Special Assistant to President Obama on
                    the National Security Council staff, where Ned also
                    was the Spokesperson and Senior Director for
                    Strategic Communications. He previously was at the
                    Central Intelligence Agency, where he was a senior
                    analyst and Spokesperson. Ned has been an NBC News
                    analyst and contributor and taught at Georgetown
                    University and The George Washington University. He
                    graduated<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>summa
                      cum laude</i><span
                      class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>from
                    Georgetown University\u2019s School of Foreign Service
                    and received a Master\u2019s from Harvard University\u2019s
                    Kennedy School of Government. Ned is originally from
                    Dallas, Texas, and is a lifetime member of the
                    Council on Foreign Relations. </font></p>
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