The Future’s Hinge: Afghanistan and the 2014 Future

led by Marin Strmecki, Senior Vice President and Director of Programs of the Smith Richardson Foundation in Westport, Connecticut. He has recently worked in a variety of advisory capacities in the U.S. government including Afghanistan Policy Coordinator and Special Advisor on Afghanistan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2003 to 2005,  advisor to Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2004 to 2007; and Policy Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.