Booz Allen Leadership Participated in 2006 Aspen Ideas Festival

Booz Allen Hamilton was one of the major sponsors of the July 5-10, 2005, Aspen Ideas Festival. A collaboration between the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic magazine, the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival was centered around several thematic "tracks," including Global Dynamics, The Global Economy and Society, Health and Bioscience, Culture and the Media, The State of the Environment, The American Experience, Leadership, and Family Economics.

The speakers, panelists, and moderators were drawn from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of interest, creating a diverse mix of experts to contribute to the program. Aspen Ideas Festival participants from Booz Allen included:

• Ralph Shrader, Chairman and CEO of Booz Allen.



• Dennis Doughty, President of Booz Allen's Worldwide Technology Business, moderated a panel titled "Global Dynamics: Malignant and Malevolent Threats: Terrorism, Nuclear, and Natural Disaster."



• Gary Ahlquist, Senior Vice President, moderated a panel titled "Health and Bioscience: Who Should Run the Health Care System?"



• Reginald Van Lee, Senior Vice President, moderated a panel titled "Global Dynamics: A Leader's Guide to Operating in a Global World."



• Charley Beever, Vice President, moderated a panel titled "Health and Bioscience: Biotechnology in the 21st Century, Can We Perfect Nature?"



• R. James Woolsey, Vice President, participated in a panel discussion titled "Global Dynamics: Threatened Intelligence, Challenges to Global Security."



• Ed Tse, Managing Director of Greater China, participated in a panel discussion titled "Global Dynamics: Rising Power, China."

Booz Allen sponsored two of the Festival's major tracks — Global Dynamics and Health and Bioscience.

Global Dynamics — With the advent of technology, once distant people and places have grown closer and more integrally connected throughout the world. Inherent in our increasingly interdependent world are equal measure of potential and perils, opportunities and costs.

Sessions in the Global Dynamics thematic track addressed political, economic, military, and social questions raised by the ever-shrinking globe. What is the impact of American political, economic, and military preeminence? How does America live up to its ideals in a world of realpolitik? How are alliances shifting? What pressing issues loom across the globe today? These sessions connected the dots between democratization and security, to sustainable globalization, to the creation of resilient economies and enterprises.

Health and Bioscience — The unprecedented scientific progress of the 20th century will undoubtedly be exceeded by advances in the 21st century. This track addressed the promise that science holds, as well as the challenges and dangers that lurk within our growing power to influence and control nature, our own being, and the world around us. It explored issues such as the global health challenges posed by diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria and the specter of bioterrorism; the fascinating new frontiers of health, medicine, and bioscience; complex bioethical issues such as stem cell research and cloning; and what lies ahead for health care in America.

The Health and Bioscience track also included a war game on HIV/Aids on July 6, 2005.

story posted June 30, 2005