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Keynote Speaker
Lew Lukens, senior partner and chief executive officer for the U.K. and Europe, Signum Global Advisors
Among his many assignments, Lukens served as U.S. ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, deputy executive secretary to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, senior director at the National Security Council under Dr. Condoleezza Rice and former President George W. Bush and as U.S. consul general in Vancouver. Most recently, he was the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy London in the U.K.
Lukens has also worked in Baghdad, Iraq; Dublin, Ireland; Sydney, Australia; Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire; and Guangzhou, China, as well as completing multiple tours in Washington. At the National Security Council, he helped to coordinate the U.S. government’s response to the 9/11 terror attacks.
Lukens has a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University. In 2002, he was selected by the State Department and Princeton as a John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor and Lecturer of Public and International Affairs. He also has a master’s degree in public policy from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.