Date: 2018-01-24 06:30:00 AM - 2018-01-24 20:30:00 PM
Venue: Haldane Room, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Event Website: https://evening-with-alice-rogoff.eventbrite.co.uk%20
We were delighted to have had Alice Rogoff speak about ‘The US and its Emerging Arctic Interest’ at University College London on 24 January 2018. This event was co-hosted by Polar Research and Policy Initiative along with UCL Global Governance Institute, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and UCL Institute for Global Health. Alice has kindly allowed us to share her presentation which you can access here: Alice Rogoff Presentation
Alice Rogoff is Publisher and Owner of ArcticToday.com, the only news site covering news and opinions from the entire circumpolar high north. She is the former Publisher and Owner of Alaska Dispatch News. In 2012, Ms Rogoff co-founded the international forum ‘Arctic Circle’ together with former President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland. Alice sits on the Advisory Board of Polar Research and Policy Initiative and chairs the Advisory Council of the Polar Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian. Most recently, Alice has been an outside adviser to the Arctic Initiative just launched at Harvard University’s JFK School.
In 2002, she launched the Alaska Native Arts Foundation. In 2008, Ms Rogoff founded the Alaska House NY, a non-profit “virtual embassy” to promote understanding of the economic issues and opportunities facing the State. From 1985 to 1997, Ms Rogoff was Chief Financial Officer of US News and World Report. Prior to that, she was Managing Director of G William Miller and Co., a Washington DC investment management firm. She also worked at The Washington Post Company as Assistant to Publisher Donald Graham and created the “National Weekly Edition” of The Washington Post. From 1978 to 1980, Ms Rogoff served in the Administration of President Jimmy Carter as Special Assistant to the Director of the US Office of Management and Budget.
Other commitments of hers have included: Trustee of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia; Member, Council of the US National Museum of the American Indian; former Trustee and Treasurer, The National Symphony Orchestra. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
