Subject: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: 1/18 Luncheon Discussion in Washington, D.C. with The Honorable Ellen O. Tauscher, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
From: "Meghan Hagberg" <[email-masked]>
To: "Meghan Hagberg" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:42:45 +0000

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The Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) is pleased to announce a luncheon discussion with

The Honorable Ellen O. Tauscher
Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security
U.S. Department of State

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Washington, D.C.

Hosted by Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation

To register please use this link: International Security<http://bciu.org/wip02/online_event_invitation.asp?currentorpast=&eventsorprograms=events&IDNumber=1618&ProgramIDNumber=0&Keycode=9783136>

Venue details will be sent upon registration.

Biographical Information

Ellen O. Tauscher was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security on June 27, 2009.  She previously represented California's 10th Congressional District for 13 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.  The district includes San Francisco's suburbs in Contra Costa, Alameda Solano, and Sacramento counties.  She was the only member of Congress to have two national defense laboratories, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia California, in her district.  The district also includes Camp Parks Army Reserve facility and Travis Air Force Base, home of the 60th Air Mobility Wing.

Under Secretary Tauscher chaired the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces since 2007 and was a senior member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.  She also chaired the New Democrat Coalition, a group of more than 60 centrist House Democrats.

Before winning a seat in Congress, Under Secretary Tauscher spent 14 years working on Wall Street.  She was one of the first women to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and later served as an officer of the American Stock Exchange.  She is a graduate of Seton Hall University