The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for consideration of national security,military,and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House,it is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States,and composed of senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials.
Voice of America is the state-owned news network and international radio broadcaster of the United States of America. It is the largest and oldest U.S.-funded international broadcaster. VOA produces digital,TV,and radio content in 48 languages,which it distributes to affiliate stations around the world. Its targeted and primary audience is non-American.
The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM),formerly the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),is an independent agency of the United States government that broadcasts news and information. It describes its mission,"vital to U.S. national interests",to "inform,engage,and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy". It is considered an arm of U.S. diplomacy.
Robert Bruce Zoellick is an American public official and lawyer who was the eleventh president of the World Bank,a position he held from July 1,2007 to June 30,2012. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs,United States Deputy Secretary of State and U.S. Trade Representative,from February 7,2001 until February 22,2005. Zoellick has been a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs since ending his term with the World Bank. He is currently a Senior Counselor at Brunswick Group.
Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings,Inc. (NHI),which forms part of the Nomura Group. It plays a central role in the securities business,the Group's core business. Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong,London,and New York,Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. It operates through five business divisions:retail,global markets,investment banking,merchant banking,and asset management.
A. G. Becker &Co. was an investment bank based in Chicago,Illinois,United States.
Kleinwort Benson was a leading investment bank that offered a wide range of financial services from offices throughout the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. Two families,the Kleinworts and the Bensons,founded two different merchant banks in London. They merged in 1961 to create Kleinwort Benson Lonsdale,later Kleinwort Benson. Following its acquisition by SociétéGénérale in June 2016,it was merged with SG Hambros,already a subsidiary of SociétéGénérale,to form Kleinwort Hambros in November 2016.
Banc of America Securities LLC (BAS),was the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America until it was merged with Merrill Lynch after that firm's acquisition in 2008 to become Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Headquartered in New York City,the company competed in both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets.
William Arthur Owens is a retired admiral of the United States Navy and who served as the third vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1994 to 1996. Since leaving the military in 1996,he served as an executive or as a member of the board of directors of various companies,including Nortel Networks Corporation.
Evercore Inc.,formerly known as Evercore Partners,is a global independent investment banking advisory firm founded in 1995 by Roger Altman,David Offensend,and Austin Beutner. The firm has advised on over $4.7 trillion of merger,acquisition,and restructuring transactions since its founding.
Bilateral ties between Malaysia and the United States were established upon Malayan independence in 1957. The US was,and still is one of the largest trading partners for Malaysia and is traditionally considered to be Malaysia's oldest and closest ally in military,economic and education sectors. Malaya was the predecessor state to Malaysia,a larger federation which was formed through the merger of Malaya,North Borneo,Sarawak and Singapore in 1963. Immediately before the merger,the latter three territories were previously part of the British Empire. But the US had consular and commercial presence in Malaya since the 1800s. US merchants,especially Joseph William Torrey together with Thomas Bradley Harris also had commercial interests in north western coast of Borneo in the 19th century as well,where they established the American Trading Company of Borneo.
Thomas Edward Donilon is an American lawyer,business executive,and former government official who served as the 22nd National Security Advisor in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2013. Donilon also worked in the Carter and Clinton administrations,including as Chief of Staff of the U.S. State Department. He is now Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute,the firm's global think tank.
BofA Securities,Inc.,previously Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML),is an American multinational investment banking division under the auspices of Bank of America. It is not to be confused with Merrill,the stock brokerage and trading platform subsidiary of Bank of America.
Richard T. McCormack is an American government official and diplomat. He has served nearly five decades advising policymakers on foreign affairs and global economic developments. He is currently a senior advisor for CSIS in Washington,D.C.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs,or ASD (IPSA),is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Secretary of Defense on international security strategy and policy on issues of DoD interest that relate to the governments and defense establishments of the nations and international organizations within the Asia-Pacific region. The position was originally titled Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs but was renamed by the Trump Administration alongside the renaming of the United States Indo-Pacific Command.
Victoria Curtin Gardner Coates is an American art historian,blogger and political consultant. She served as Senior Advisor to Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette in 2020 and later was appointed to run the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. She served on the United States National Security Council,originally as the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Assessments before getting promoted to Deputy National Security Advisor upon the nomination of Robert C. O'Brien.
Steven Terner Mnuchin is an American investment banker and film producer who served as the 77th United States secretary of the treasury as part of the Cabinet of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. Serving for a full presidential term,Mnuchin was one of the few high-profile members of Trump's cabinet whom the president did not dismiss.
Nigel Savage MacEwan is an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Kleinwort Benson North America from 1987 to 1993. Prior to Kleinwort Benson,he was the president of investment banking and co-chairman of private equity at Merrill Lynch from 1978 to 1987 and the president of White Weld &Co. and its subsidiary Credit Suisse White Weld from 1977 to 1978,when the firm merged with Merrill Lynch.
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