David Smoot is chief executive officer at Dubai International Capital LLC (DIC). He is also chairman of the portfolio company Almatis and vice chairman of StandardAero. David serves on the boards of DIC portfolio companies Doncasters, Mauser, Rivoli, and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise. DIC’s portfolio companies are engaged in manufacturing, retail, aircraft maintenance services, and aircraft […]

John Green is The New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has […]

Major Kimberly Garbett is an international programs manager at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany. In her current position, Kim works with the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes (PfPC), an alliance of defense academies and security organizations from the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) region. […]