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Stuart Appelbaum President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
Stuart Appelbaum holds decades of experience advocating for the rights of workers around the world. He was elected to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Board of Directors in February 2022.
Since 1998, Appelbaum has served as president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents 100,000 workers in retail, food processing, and warehouse jobs nationwide. He also serves as an executive vice-president of the 1.3-million-member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Appelbaum is a vice-president of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, and a member of the federation’s Executive Council, where he co-chairs the federation’s Executive Council Committee on International Affairs.
As a member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Appelbaum has served on the DNC’s Executive Committee and co-chaired the DNC’s Resolutions Committee. Currently, he is Chair of the DNC Labor Council and member of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee.
Appelbaum is the president of the Jewish Labor Committee and member of the Executive Council of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
He is an officer of two global union federations, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers’ Associations and Union Network International. As President of UNI Global Commerce, Appelbaum represents 160 unions and four million workers around the world.
Appelbaum graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University, where he was named a Louis Dembitz Brandeis Scholar and elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating with honors from Harvard Law School, he became a member of the bar of the State of Connecticut. Appelbaum resides in New York City with his husband, Michihito Osawa.
>Stuart Appelbaum President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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Anne ApplebaumStaff Writer for The Atlantic and Pulitzer-prize winning historian
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Agora Institute, where she co-directs Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.
A Washington Post columnist for fifteen years and a former member of the editorial board, she has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator magazine in London, as the Political Editor of the Evening Standard, and as a columnist at Slate as well as the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. From 1988-1991 she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent of the Economist magazine and the Independent newspaper.
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Ambassador Victoria NulandFormer Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs for Political Affairs
Ambassador Victoria Nuland is the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy and Director of the International Fellows Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She is also affiliated with SIPA’s Institute for Global Politics. She previously served on the NED Board of Directors from 2018 to 2021.
A U.S. diplomat for 35 years, Nuland served six U.S. Presidents and 10 Secretaries of State of both political parties and holds the rank of Career Ambassador. She was Acting Deputy Secretary of State from July 2023 until March 2024, and served concurrently as Under Secretary for Political Affairs. Her tenure as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs for Political Affairs began in April 2021.
Prior to that, Nuland was Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm based in Washington, DC. She was also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy at Yale University.
A career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, Nuland served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from September 2013 until January 2017 under President Obama and Secretary Kerry. She was State Department Spokesperson during Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure, and U.S. Ambassador to NATO during President George W. Bush’s second term, 2005-2008. Nuland served as Special Envoy and chief negotiator on the Treaty on Conventional Arms Control in Europe from 2010-2011, and as Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney from 2003-2005. In addition to two tours at NATO in Brussels, she has served overseas in Russia, China and Mongolia, and in various assignments at the State Department in Washington. Nuland has a B.A. in history from Brown University.
Congresswoman Elise StefanikMember, U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik proudly represents New York’s 21st District in the House of Representatives in her second term in office. She is a Member of the Armed Services Committee, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. On the Armed Services Committee, Representative Stefanik serves as Chair for the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities and is a Member of the Subcommittee on Readiness. On the Committee on Education and the Workforce, she serves on the Subcommittees on Higher Education and Workforce Development and Workforce Protections.
Prior to winning her election to Congress, Representative Stefanik worked at her family’s small business called Premium Plywood Products that was founded in Upstate New York over twenty years ago. Growing up in her family’s small business, she learned, lived and understands the values of hard work, perseverance, challenges, and risk that go along with building, operating and growing small businesses that provide jobs in today’s Upstate economy.
Representative Stefanik served as Director of Vice Presidential Debate Prep to Paul Ryan where she oversaw all debate preparations for the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. She served as Director of Communications for the Foreign Policy Initiative, which launched Defending Defense, a coalition of think tanks warning of the dangers of the sequester.
From 2006 – 2009, Representative Stefanik served in the West Wing of the White House as part of President George W. Bush’s Domestic Policy Council Staff and in the Chief of Staff’s office where she assisted in overseeing the policy development process on all economic and domestic policy issues.
As the first member of her immediate family to graduate from college, Representative Stefanik graduated with Honors from Harvard University.
Representative Stefanik was born and raised in Upstate New York. She graduated cum laude from Albany Academy for Girls, the oldest continuous all girls’ school in the country. She lives in Schuylerville, NY, with her husband Matt.
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>Congresswoman Elise StefanikMember, U.S. House of Representatives
Peter Roskam(Co-Vice Chair) Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Peter Roskam, a former six-term U.S. Representative from Illinois, is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP providing strategic counsel to clients whose business needs involve law, government, media and public policy. While in Congress he served in the House Leadership, chaired three major subcommittees of the House Ways and Means Committee and was a primary architect of the historic 2017 overhaul of the America’s tax code.
He chaired the U.S. House Democracy Partnership, a bipartisan commission supporting emerging democracies abroad and co-chaired the India Caucus, the Korea Caucus, the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism and the Republican Israel Caucus. He was a member of the Select Committee on Events surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Representative Roskam sits on the Board of Directors for the National Endowment for Democracy, the Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund Selection Committee and the Center for U.S. Global Leadership. In 2019, he was a Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
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Jessica AdelmanSenior Vice President, Corporate Affairs at Mars
Jessica Adelman is Vice President for Corporate Affairs and Global Communications at Mars. She is also is an adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and a Senior Fellow at the Conference Board Marketing and Communications Center. She previously served as Group Vice President of Corporate Affairs for The Kroger Co., where she served as President of both Kroger foundations – the private foundation with $125M in assets under management and the innovative public Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation designed to find food waste solutions in America. Adelman has 25 years of experience as an executive in the food industry and retail, including as Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Syngenta North America plus other companies in the food value chain, including both Cargill and Monsanto. Adelman has her MBA from the Wharton School of Business, where she majored in Public Policy while also getting a Masters in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her undergraduate degree cum laude from Dartmouth College as a Russian Area Studies major and lived in the Former Soviet Union for several years in the 1990s. She speaks both Russian and French.
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