Michèle Flournoy

Co-Founder & Managing Partner of WestExec

Former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

Michèle Flournoy is the co-founder and managing partner of WestExec, a strategic advisory firm offering unique geopolitical expertise, and the co-founder and former CEO of the Center for a New American Security. Previously, she served as the undersecretary of defense for policy under President Obama. She was a Pentagon policy chief and the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. Flournoy serves on the CNAS board of directors.

Debates Featuring Michèle Flournoy

Unresolved: The Techonomic Cold War With China

With Ian Bremmer, Michèle Flournoy, Yasheng Huang, Parag Khanna, Susan Thornton
February 25, 2019

President Xi Jinping has made it clear: When it comes to big data, advanced weaponry, and other innovations in tech and AI, China has plans to surpass the United States as the world’s next techonomic superpower. But between the trade war with the U.S., the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, and an array of domestic challenges, are China’s goals outpacing its capacity? Or is China building and investing in strategic partnerships that will push the country toward global dominance? Staged…

Unresolved: The Techonomic Cold War With China

With Ian Bremmer, Michèle Flournoy, Yasheng Huang, Parag Khanna, Susan Thornton
February 25, 2019

Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated

With Michèle Flournoy, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dov Zakheim, Philip Zelikow
August 9, 2015

In June 2014, the Sunni militant group ISIS declared that it had established a new caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq. Since then, the region under its control has expanded, despite airstrikes and the deployment of U.S. military advisors, and Jihadist groups across the Muslim world have pledged their allegiance. What should the Obama administration’s next steps be? Should the U.S. goal be containment, or can ISIS be defeated?

Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated

With Michèle Flournoy, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dov Zakheim, Philip Zelikow
August 9, 2015

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Debates Featuring Michèle Flournoy

Unresolved: The Techonomic Cold War With China

Unresolved: The Techonomic Cold War With China

Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated

Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated

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