Critical Minerals - Strategic Challenge And Positive Opportunity For Canada And The USA | School of Law

Thursday, November 10th, 2022
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2022-11-10 10:00:00 2022-11-10 14:00:00 Critical Minerals - Strategic Challenge And Positive Opportunity For Canada And The USA Event Description Learn about what Canada and USA are doing in the face supply chain shortage of critical minerals. This is the annual Experts' Meeting of the Canada - United States Law Institute co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Canada Institute. This event brings together these Canadian and American leaders in both the public and private arena to share ideas and insights into critical minerals – their great importance for Canada and the United States, supply chain challenges as well as the roles of each country to develop its resources and address national security concerns and opportunities for enhanced cooperation. 10 a.m. Panel 1 - Business and Industry Issues Diane Francis, Moderator, Award winning journalist and columnist Chris Doornbos, CEO and Director, of E3 Lithium. Eric Lee, Former Global Lead, Electrification Strategy & Portfolio Planning (2019–2021), Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), CEO of Copper Country Capital, LLC Leigh Clarke, Vice President for Corporate Strategy & Sustainability, E3 Metals Corp. 11 a.m. Panel 2: Government and Public Policy Issues Peter MacKay, Moderator, Former Attorney General and Minister of Defense of Canada Jeff Labonté, Assistant Deputy Minister for Natural Resources Canada - Lands and Minerals Sector Sameera Fazili, Deputy Director of the U.S. President’s National Economic Council, whose portfolio includes supply chains and critical minerals 12:20 p.m. Luncheon Keynote: The Geo-Politics of Critical Minerals Tomas Rakusan, former Deputy Director of CIA for Operations and Assistant Director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia with 39 years of service in the CIA and the national security community and presently a Managing Director, Cerberus Capital Management Wilson Center 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004 Wilson Auditorium School of Law School of Law America/New_York public

Event Description

Learn about what Canada and USA are doing in the face supply chain shortage of critical minerals. This is the annual Experts' Meeting of the Canada - United States Law Institute co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Canada Institute.

This event brings together these Canadian and American leaders in both the public and private arena to share ideas and insights into critical minerals – their great importance for Canada and the United States, supply chain challenges as well as the roles of each country to develop its resources and address national security concerns and opportunities for enhanced cooperation.

10 a.m.

Panel 1 - Business and Industry Issues

Diane Francis, Moderator, Award winning journalist and columnist
Chris Doornbos, CEO and Director, of E3 Lithium.
Eric Lee, Former Global Lead, Electrification Strategy & Portfolio Planning (2019–2021), Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), CEO of Copper Country Capital, LLC
Leigh Clarke, Vice President for Corporate Strategy & Sustainability, E3 Metals Corp.

11 a.m.

Panel 2: Government and Public Policy Issues

Peter MacKay, Moderator, Former Attorney General and Minister of Defense of Canada
Jeff Labonté, Assistant Deputy Minister for Natural Resources Canada - Lands and Minerals Sector
Sameera Fazili, Deputy Director of the U.S. President’s National Economic Council, whose portfolio includes supply chains and critical minerals

12:20 p.m.

Luncheon Keynote: The Geo-Politics of Critical Minerals

Tomas Rakusan, former Deputy Director of CIA for Operations and Assistant Director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia with 39 years of service in the CIA and the national security community and presently a Managing Director, Cerberus Capital Management

Event Location

Wilson Center

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20004

Wilson Auditorium