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“Exchanges, people to people ties, are the foundations of everything we do in diplomacy and in all the government’s work. Soft power, I think, is one of our superpowers,” said Ambassador Marie Yovanovich, former ambassador to Ukraine, who moderated the panel.

“It has been my experience that there are two American values that the world admires even if they may despise our foreign policy. These two values are education and entrepreneurship,” said Mr. Rafik Mansour, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), describing the bureau as the “soft power arm of the U.S. government”.

The panel also featured Dr. Katherine A. Brown, President and CEO of Global Ties U.S., Mr. Joe Kapp, President of the Center for Resource Development (NCRD), and Mr. Joe Wierichs, Public Diplomacy Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication.