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Hoover Institution Board Of Overseers Meeting 2022

The Hoover Institution hosted the annual winter meeting of its Board of Overseers in Washington, DC, from Sunday, February 27, to Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

Thursday, March 17, 2022 1 min read

The Hoover Institution hosted the annual winter meeting of its Board of Overseers in Washington, DC, from Sunday, February 27, to Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

In addition to attending committee meetings, overseers engaged with Hoover fellows and leading public officials who assessed the current national policy and political environment. Speakers included Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice; director of Hoover Institution Library & Archives Eric Wakin; Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow Amy Zegart; senior fellows David Brady and Douglas Rivers; Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics Kevin Warsh; Robert Conquest Curator of Hoover’s Russia and Eurasia collection Anatol Shmelev; professor of Russian history at the University of Pennsylvania Benjamin Nathans; US senators Dan Sullivan and Tim Scott; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy; former national security advisor Stephen Hadley; and CIA director William Burns.

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Hoover overseers (left to right): Tom Stephenson (chair), Steve Eggert, Jamie Carroll, Douglas Scrivner, Rod Shepard, and John Kleinheinz.

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Hoover overseer Paul Barber (left) and Margaret Hoover (right), the great-grand daughter of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover. Hoover’s husband, John Avlon, is pictured center.

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Chair of the Hoover Institution’s Board of Overseers, Tom Stephenson.

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Dan Sullivan, US senator representing Alaska, in conversation with Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics Kevin Warsh.

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Condoleezza Rice with the winners of the Hoover Institution’s 2021 Summer Policy Boot Camp Director’s Award: Connor Kubeisy of the University of California–Berkeley, Chaston Pfingston of Carnegie Mellon University, and Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Recipients were recognized for papers they wrote that demonstrated creative solutions for complex policy challenges.

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Hoover Institution director of research and Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow Dan Kessler.

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Hoover Institution deputy director and director of Hoover’s Library & Archives Eric Wakin.

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Hoover Institution associate director of marketing and policy education Shana Farley.

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The Hoover Institution’s Bechtel Director of Media and Government Relations Eryn Witcher Tillman.

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Hoover Institution senior fellow Josh Rauh.

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Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow Amy Zegart discussed her newly released book, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence.

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Condoleezza Rice shares a laugh during a conversation with US senator from South Carolina Tim Scott.

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Robert Conquest Curator of Hoover’s Russian and Eurasian collection Anatol Shmelev (left) gives a presentation with University of Pennsylvania Russian history professor Benjamin Nathans (right) about Vladimir Putin’s assault on Memorial, the oldest human rights organization in Russia.