Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: The Impact of the U.S. Presidential Election on Global Women's Leadership

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

REUTERS/Cheney Orr

Speakers

Farida Jalalzai

Associate Dean of Global Initiatives and Engagement at the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech

Mona Lena Krook

Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women & Politics Ph.D. Program, Rutgers University

Wendy Smooth

Senior Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor, Department of Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, Political Science and the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State University

Presider

Linda Robinson

Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

from Roundtable Series on Women's Global Leadership

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