A Conversation With Carla Harris

Friday, April 10, 2015
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Speaker
Carla Harris

Chair, National Women’s Business Council; Director, Investment Banking Division, Morgan Stanley; Author, Strategize to Win: The New Way to Start Out, Step Up, or Start Over in Your Career

Presider
Elizabeth Dahan

Director, Macro Advisory Partners, LLP

Conference on Diversity in International Affairs

Carla Harris launches the 2015 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs with a keynote address following a welcome message by James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations.

The Conference on Diversity in International Affairs is made possible by the generous support of the Robina Foundation.

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