H.R. McMaster in conversation with H.E. Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado on Wednesday, May 12 at 9:00am PT. In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and former Panama Vice President Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado discuss Panama-U.S. relations, factors affecting Western Hemisphere security and prosperity, and implications for Panamanian and U.S. policy. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS H.E. Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado is the first woman elected Vice-President in Panama and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs. She has over 20 years’ experience in consulting, development, and implementation of public policies in Latin America. The Vice President started her diplomatic career with posts at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Permanent Mission in New York and worked for 15 years with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Panama. She has been a member of different boards of directors and is a champion in sponsoring issues related to transparency, sustainable development, gender equality, and human rights. H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018. ABOUT THE SERIES Battlegrounds provides a needed forum with leaders from key countries to share their assessment of problem sets and opportunities that have implications for U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. Each episode features H.R. McMaster in a one-on-one conversation with a senior foreign government leader to allow Americans and partners abroad to understand how the past produced the present and how we might work together to secure a peaceful and prosperous future. “Listening and learning from those who have deep knowledge of our most crucial challenges is the first step in crafting the policies we need to secure peace and prosperity for future generations.” For more information, visit: https://www.hoover.org/battlegrounds_perspectives. Pick up a copy of "Battlegrounds: The Fight To Defend The Free World," by H.R. McMaster here - https://www.hoover.org/research/battlegrounds-fight-defend-free-world.