ASU Washington Diplomatic Roundtable

The ASU Washington Diplomatic Roundtable is a quarterly event hosted by ASU Ambassador-in-Residence, Michael C. Polt, and the university’s Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab, connecting ASU with the Washington foreign affairs community.

Past Roundtables

The Powerful Future of Higher Education: Redesigning Universities around the Globe

Co-Hosted by ASU’s Ambassador-in-Residence Michael C. Polt, and UDI’s Managing Director and Vice Chair Dr. Minu Ipe, this roundtable opened an exciting new round of higher education opportunities through the United States’ largest and most innovative public research university.

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American Diplomacy Project - Phase II

The Phase II project team, in collaboration with the Una Chapman Cox Foundation and ASU, is assembling detailed blueprints for four critical areas of Foreign Service reform. 

Under the Co-Chairmanship of Ambassadors Marc Grossman and Marcie Ries, the Project is headed by Executive Director, Ambassador Charles Ray. Ambassadors Grossman and Ries were co-authors of the Phase I report, A Foreign Service for the 21st Century, which was sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and also in collaboration with the Cox Foundation.

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Cintana - LDNS Lab Collaboration

Cintana Education enables universities around the world to increase quality and scale in order to provide more students with the education they need and deserve. We provide world class expertise and access to our own proprietary resources as well as those of Arizona State University, a top-ranked university that shares our vision of expanding access through growth and innovation. Together, we are building the ASU-Cintana Alliance, an international network of universities that work together to meet the rising global demand for high quality post-secondary education.

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