[KS] Robert O'Brien to address virtual ICAS Fall Symposium Libertas: The Korean Peninsula Issues and US National Security: October 4, 2023 700 PM - 800 PM EDT

Wed Sep 27 10:46:25 EDT 2023

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June 27, 2023

The Hon Robert C O'Brien
Co-Founder and Chairman
American Global Strategies LLC
former US National Security Advisor
The White House

*/Virtual Address /*

/ICAS/Fall Symposium /Libertas 2023/
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/Geopolitics in Asia Indo-Pacific and US National Security/
The Korean Peninsula Issues and US National Security
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___October 4 2023  700 PM - 800 PM EDT
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Dear Friend:

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We are pleased to share with you that The Hon Robert C O'Brien will 
address the /ICAS/ Fall Symposium /Libertas/ on "The Korean Peninsula 
Issues and US National Security" on October 4, 2023.

The Hon Robert O'Brien is Co-founder and Chairman of American Global 
Strategies LLC. He was the 27th United States National Security Advisor 
from 2019 – 2021. Robert served as the President’s principal advisor on 
all aspects of American foreign policy and national security affairs.

He brought a renewed focus to defense and industrial base issues to the 
NSC. A long-time advocate of a sea power and a 355 ship Navy, Robert 
visited leading shipyards during his tenure. He also spent time at 
defense plants and with our troops at bases around the world.

During O’Brien’s time as National Security Advisor, the United States 
orchestrated the historic Abraham Accords in the Middle East, brokered 
economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo, achieved significant 
defense spending increases among our NATO allies and increased 
cooperation with America’s allies across the Indo-Pacific.

Prior to serving as NSA, Robert was the Special Presidential Envoy for 
Hostage Affairs with the personal rank of Ambassador. He was directly 
involved in the return of over 25 detainees and hostages to the United 
States. Ambassador O’Brien previously served as Co-Chairman of the US 
Department of State Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in 
Afghanistan under both Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton.

Robert was also a presidentially-appointed member of the US Cultural 
Property Advisory Committee from 2008-2011. In 2005, he was nominated by 
President George W Bush and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate to 
serve as a US Representative to the 60th session of the UN General 
Assembly. Earlier in his career, Robert served as a Senior Legal Officer 
for the UN Security Council commission that decided claims against Iraq 
arising out of the first Gulf War. He was a Major in the Judge Advocate 
General’s Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve.

Ambassador O’Brien is partner emeritus at Larson LLP in Los Angeles, a 
nationally recognized litigation boutique that he co-founded in 2016. 
Over his career, he has served as counsel and arbitrator in dozens of 
International proceedings.

Robert is the recipient of the National Security Medal, the National 
Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the Department of Defense 
Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the National Defense Medal, the 
Legion d’honneur (chevalier), the Republic of China (Taiwan) Order of 
the Brilliant Star with Special Grand Cordon and the Kosovo Presidential 
Medal of Merits.

The National Museum of the Surface Navy named him the recipient of the 
2021 Freedom of the Seas Award. That same year, Robert and former 
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were awarded the Richard Nixon 
Foundation’s Architect of Peace Award for their work on the Abraham 
Accords and other initiatives while in office. Following the signing of 
the Abraham Accords in 2020, a tree was planted on behalf of the State 
of Israel at the John F Kennedy Memorial Forest in the Hills of 
Jerusalem in honor of Ambassador O’Brien. In 2019, Robert received the 
Dr Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Award for the Defense of America and 
Israel. The UC Berkeley School of Law presented Ambassador O’Brien with 
the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to 
the field of international law in 2011.

In July 2022, Robert was elected as the Chairman of the Board of 
Directors of the Richard Nixon Foundation. He also serves as co-chair 
with Secretary Pompeo of The Nixon Seminar on Conservative Realism and 
National Security.

Robert holds a JD from the UC Berkeley School of Law. He received his BA 
degree in political science, /cum laude/, from UCLA.

Thank you.

         Sincerely,

             Sang Joo Kim
Senior Fellow & Executive Vice President
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