Join Pacific Research Institute in Beverly Hills for an evening reception and discussion with Kiron Skinner, Ph.D., best-selling author and national security and foreign policy scholar. Skinner is the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Pepperdine School of Public Policy and the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is a former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State in the Trump administration.

Skinner will discuss the challenges to America’s security at home and its interests abroad, including threats posed by Russia, China, Iran. She will assess the Biden administration’s foreign policy agenda and offer unique insights into how global events are impacting economic and energy policy. Skinner will also discuss the midterm election's impact on foreign policy issues and the possibility of House Republicans launching investigations into the Biden’s handling of foreign policy issues such the U.S.-Mexico border and the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Hors d’oeuvres and a selection of beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages will be served.

Ticket Information

• General Admission: $75

About Kiron Skinner

International relations, U.S. foreign policy, and political strategy expert Kiron Skinner is the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Pepperdine School of Public Policy. She is the recipient of PRI’s 2022 Sir Antony Fisher Freedom Prize, presented at the Institute’s Annual Gala in September.

Skinner previously served as the Taube Professor for International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy and was a faculty member in the Department of History and the Department of Social and Decision Sciences (SDS) at the university’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Skinner continues to serve as the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Skinner's past government service includes serving as the director of the office of policy planning and senior advisor at the US Department of State (2018-19), membership on the US Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board as an adviser on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, the Chief of Naval Operations' Executive Panel, the National Academies Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security, and the National Security Education Board. From 2012 to 2015 she served on Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs.

Skinner is an award-winning and best-selling author with particular scholarship focused on the life and public policy of former president Ronald Reagan. Her coauthored books Reagan, In His Own Hand (2001) and Reagan, A Life in Letters (2003) were New York Times best sellers. Reagan, In His Own Hand won the Hoover Institution’s Uncommon Book Award in 2002.