meet elise
elise labott
Keynote Speaker and Author Elise Labott is a Journalist-in-Residence at the Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Elise serves as a global ambassador for Vital Voices, a program to empower women entrepreneurs around the world.
Elise is also a contributor to Politico, provides commentary for MSNBC, NPR, BBC and several other broadcast outlets and is a sought-after interviewer and moderator. Elise is a leading journalist covering US foreign policy and international issues, recently as CNN’s Global Affairs Correspondent, where she covered stories from the 911 attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Arab Spring and rise of ISIS, to tensions with Iran and North Korea.
She has traveled the world with seven secretaries of state -from Madeline Albright to Mike Pompeo - and has reported from more than eighty countries and interviewed many world leaders.
