The “Dinner of Extinction” will address the dangers the world faces due to climate change and rapidly deteriorating ecosystems. Sam Kass, former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition to President Barack Obama, will open the dinner with an introduction to the courses that will be served, highlighting the importance of the ingredients used. Those ingredients and other resources people rely on and enjoy will be depleted, if not extinct, within the next few decades if human beings do not act effectively and quickly.

The dinner program will also include a panel discussion on the future of climate change and what can be done to protect food security and the world’s fragile ecosystems.

Speakers
Ertharin Cousin
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Food Systems for the Future; Former Executive Director, UN World Food Program; Former U.S. Ambassador, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations; CFR Member

Cary Fowler
Special Envoy for Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State; CFR Member

Samuel D. Kass
Former Senior Advisor for Nutrition, Executive Office of the President (Obama Administration); Partner, Acre Venture Partners

Presider
Sherri Goodman
Senior Fellow, Polar Institute and Environmental Change & Security Program, Wilson Center; CFR Member

Introductory Remarks
Michael Froman
President, Council on Foreign Relations

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