A Conversation with Heather Higginbottom

Monday, March 21 &
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Speaker

Heather A. Higginbottom

Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, U.S. Department of State

Presider

Rachel B. Vogelstein

Senior Fellow and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Women and Foreign Policy Program

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Heather Higginbottom joined the Women and Foreign Policy program’s director and senior fellow, Rachel Vogelstein, to discuss implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This roundtable meeting was part of a new high-level series, in collaboration with the UN Foundation, to explore issues related to implementation of the SDGs.

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