Government Briefing: A Conversation with U.S. Representative Ro Khanna
Date: December 11, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Doors open at 10:45 am
Location: Washington, D.C.
Registration: This event is by invitation only.
Featured Speaker
Ro Khanna
U.S. Representative
Congressman Ro Khanna represents California’s 17th Congressional District, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, and is serving his fifth term.
Rep. Khanna serves on the House Armed Services Committee as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems (CITI), a member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, and on the Oversight and Accountability Committee, where he previously chaired the Environmental Subcommittee.
As a leading progressive in the House, Rep, Khanna is working to restore American manufacturing and technology leadership, improve the lives of working people, and advance U.S. leadership on climate, human rights, and diplomacy around the world.
Meet the Moderator
Glen S. Fukushima
Glen S. Fukushima is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on U.S.-East Asia relations. On October 14, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden nominated him to serve as Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), and the United States Senate confirmed him for this position on April 6, 2022.
His publications include Nichi-Bei Keizai Masatsu no Seijigaku [The Politics of U.S.-Japan Economic Friction], winner of the 9th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 1993. He received the Excellence 2000 Award from the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce in 1999, the Alumni Hall of Fame Award from Stanford University in 2002, and the Person of the Year Award from the National Japanese American Historical Society in 2008. He has been a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University and University Professor at Waseda University Keio University awarded him the status of Honorary Alumnus in 2012, and LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics) conferred on him its Leadership Award in 2014. He is listed in Who’s Who in America.
A native of California, Mr. Fukushima was educated at Deep Springs College, Stanford University, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship. He was a Stanford/Keio Exchange Scholar at Keio University and a Fulbright Fellow and a Japan Foundation Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Tokyo, and often speaks at conferences especially in Asia and Europe.