Dear Friend:

We are pleased to share with you that Matt Pottinger will address the virtual ICAS Fall Symposium Vertias on November 29, 2022 730 PM - 830 PM EST Washington DC.

Matt is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Chairman of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He served at the White House for four years in senior roles on the National Security Council staff, including as Deputy National Security Advisor from 2019 to 2021. In that role, Matt coordinated the full spectrum of national security policy. Before that he served as Senior Director for Asia, where he led the administration’s work on the Indo-Pacific region, and in particular its shift on China policy. Before his White House service, Matt spent the late 1990s and early 2000s in China as a reporter for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. He then fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine during three combat deployments between 2007 and 2010. Following active duty, Matt founded and led an Asia-focused risk consultancy and ran Asia research at an investment fund in New York.

Matt contributed to ICAS his remarks (Matthew Pottinger bio (icasinc.org; Reflections on China's May Fourth Movement (icasinc.org)) on May 4, 2020.

Thank you.