High-Level Meetings and Discussions

Formal gatherings of professionals discussing strategic topics, highlighting roundtable formats in official environments.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Roundtable Address International Center for Scholars

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Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides meeting at Main Interior with three of the federal agency officials who helped lead September's Insular Areas Health Summit: Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake; Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary of Health, Joxel Garcia; and Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, David S.C. Chu

Commemoration, in Loy Henderson Auditorium, of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, featuring appearances by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford III, and United Nations Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir, among others

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry enjoys lunch with his fellow Foreign Ministers during a working lunch hosted by Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu at the National Golf Club in Antalya, Turkey, during the G20 Summit attended by President Obama and other Heads of State.

Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman, speaks to members of the Defense Innovation Board at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2022.

National Park Foundation meeting at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett and National Park Service Director Fran Mainella among the Interior officials attending

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Trip to Moscow, Russia

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Colombian President Ivan Duque in Bogota, Colombia, on September 19, 2020.

Deputy Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett, Fish and Wildlife Service officials meeting with delegation of landowners, Main Interior

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration - National Summit on Retirement Savings Delegrate Reception

Office of the Secretary - BILATERAL WITH POLISH PM LISZAK MILLER

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining other senior officials for ribbon-cutting ceremony, briefing, tours at the new Interior Operations Center (IOC)

International Trade Administration - Manufacturing Council Roundtable with Secretary Gutierrez

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Mike Leavitt, Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, left to right, at briefing, Washington, D.C.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Central America Free Trade Agreement Trade Mission to El Salvador (USTDA Ceremony, Reception, FCS Photos, Delegation Debrief, Young Enterp.)

Office of the Secretary - EARTH OBSERVATION SUMMIT

Department of Interior staff at gatherings with Secretary Gale Norton in week following announcement of her intended departure

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kemmpthorne and aides to American Samoa, U.S. Territory

Under Secretary of State Keith J. Krach participates in the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation board meeting at the U.S. Department of State on March 11, 2020.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks hosts South Korean Vice Minister of National Defense Shin Beom-chul at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2022. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with White House Fellows at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on August 5, 2021.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - 2009 LULAC National Convention & Exposition, Puerto Rican Convention Center , Environmental Protection Agency

Fish and Wildlife Service officials meeting at Main Interior with visiting Indonesian delegation, led by the Governor of the Aceh region, Irwandi Yusuf

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne with aides and Klamath working group representatives at event marking the release of the Klamath Basin Hydropower Agreement in Principle, under which the Department of the Interior, the states of California and Oregon, and PacifiCorp established a framework for addressing the potential removal of four Klamath Basin hydropower facilities in parallel with proposed Klamath Basin Restoration Act provisions for reliable water supply, low-cost power, and protection of species listed under the Endangered Species Act

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Agriculture Dialogue , Environmental Protection Agency

Bureau of Industry and Security - Armenian Delegation

Secretary's Open Forum session in Loy Henderson Auditorium, featuring Dr. James Finckenauer, Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and Director of the International Center of the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice, and Janine Wedel, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Speakers were introduced, and presented awards, by Alan Lang of Open Forum staff.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA African Embassy Event Disaster Brief

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns delivers remarks at the Istanbul Conference for Afghanistan at the Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 1, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with (clockwise) Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, and Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on February 11, 2016, before a quadrilateral meeting focused on Syria preceding the Munich Security Conference.

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne with senior staff in Los Angeles, California, discussing signing of Klamath Basin Hydropower Agreement in Principle --by Interior, states of California and Oregon, and PacifiCorp--creating framework for removal of lower four dams in the Klamath Basin

National Telecommunications and Information Administration - NANCY VICTORY MEETING WITH MICHAEL POWELL

Office of the Secretary - EARTH OBSERVATION SUMMIT

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

Office of the Deputy Secretary - BOEING-PAKISTAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT - SIGNING

Office of the Secretary - PHOTOS WITH SECRETARY DONALD EVANS FROM JAPAN

Greece, Athens on 2023-02-21. US Secretary of State, Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Antony J. Blinken, sometimes known as Tony Blinken, visiting the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue and meeting with his Greek counterpart Minister Nikos Dendias. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Grece, Athenes le 2023-02-21. Le Secretaire d'Etat des Etats-Unis, le chef département charge des Affaires etrangeres, Antony J. Blinken, dit parfois Tony Blinken, en visite au Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres Grec pour le U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue et une rencontre son homologue grec le Ministre Nikos Dendias. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 21, 2022.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 21, 2022.

Local land management officials gathering at Bureau of Land Management headquarters for meeting on enforcement issues with national staff

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a Civil Society/ Business Community Panel in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 31, 2020.

Office of the Administrator - White House Fellows , Environmental Protection Agency

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden receive the Economic Daily Briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 17, 2010.

Attorney General John Mitchell testifies at a Senate Hearing on Watergate in July 1973.

International Trade Administration - President's Export Council Breakfast and Meeting

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (first from right) speaks with U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke (center), and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton (third from right) at the High-Level Ministerial Meeting on the Flood Emergency in Pakistan at United Nations North Lawn Building in New York, New York, on September 19, 2010. USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah is also pictured (first from the right in the second row).

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Dutch contractors and pattern association for the construction companies in Parkhotel. May 21, 1968

Emmy Simmons, U.S. Agency for International Development's Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade, and other officials at State signing ceremony for U.S. Italy bilateral agreement on climate change related science and technology

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends a session with the "Friends of the Amendment Group" on July 22, 2016, at the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria, amid negotiations to amend the Montreal Protocol climate change agreement.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS WITH HISPANIC BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Joint Committee on Environmental Cooperation. Meeting between the U.S. EPA and the State Environemental Protection Administration of the People's Republic of China , Environmental Protection Agency

05/07/2012. Seville. 08.05.12. First council of the new Andalusian government, held in the palace of San Telmo. Jose Antonio Gri¿An, Susana Diaz, Diego Valderas, mar Moreno, Emilio de Llera. Photo: Juan Flores. Archsev.

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne with senior staff in Los Angeles, California, discussing signing of Klamath Basin Hydropower Agreement in Principle --by Interior, states of California and Oregon, and PacifiCorp--creating framework for removal of lower four dams in the Klamath Basin

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS WITH CHAIRMAN RICH CROTTY

JSC2010-E-041313 (19 March 2010) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the prime crew for the next Soyuz launch to the International Space Station receives its certification for flight from Russian space officials March 19, 2010. At the top of the picture, Expedition 23 Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov (left), Soyuz commander, cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (center) and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, both Expedition 23 flight engineers, listen as the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov (lower right) provides the certification along with cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev (lower left), who is the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center. Skvortsov, Kornienko and Caldwell Dyson will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 2 in their Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft and will dock to the station April 4.

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Office of the Secretary - Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Trip to Moscow, Russia

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, joined by Office of Budget Director Pamela Haze and Associate Deputy Secretary James Cason, on Capitol Hill for testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, concerning the 2009 President's budget request for Interior

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo holds a bilateral meeting with Dominican President Luis Abinader in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on August 16, 2020.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA African Embassy Event Disaster Brief

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - PHOTOS OF BRIGADIER GENERAL JACK KELLY AND CHINESE DELEGATION

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

Rose E. Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, delivers the opening statement for the United States at the First Plenary of the 2012 Session of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 24, 2012.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

Disaster response experts from the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina discuss disaster preparedness during a 3-day workshop in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jan. 30 - Feb. 2. The U.S. team, comprised of five members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, two members of the Maryland Department of Emergency Management and a member of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, provided a holistic overview of disaster response activities within the United States to members of the Bosnia and Herzegovina army and various other civilian ministry officials. The workshop provides an opportunity for everyone to share lessons learned during previous disasters as they prepare for the future events.

Bureau of Industry and Security - Indian Hi Tech Forum

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides meeting at Main Interior with delegation including Tom Kiernan, President of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA); Gene Sykes of NPCA's Board of Trustees; John Bridgeland, Director of USA Freedom Corps; and Randal Teague, Washington, D.C. attorney, partner in Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne in Melbourne, Australia, on February 10, 2022.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - US/Brazil Business Dialogue Rio De Janiero

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry kicks off a discussion of Africa's Great Lakes region by the United Nations Security Council in New York City on July 25, 2013.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA (9-21-05 TO 9-23-05)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa lead the U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership Plenary Session in Bali, Indonesia, on July 24, 2011.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 18 2022.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers opening comments to his fellow ministers at the National Convention Center in Vientiane, Laos, on July 25, 2016, at the outset of a U.S.-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo attends a working lunch with Slovenian President Borut Pahor in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on August 13, 2020.

U.S. Scientists Meet with Officials from the Hanoi University of Science and Technology. Records of Scholarship and Fellowship Granting Foundations, Agency Officials and Events.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, talks with Her Royal Highness Princess Reema Bandar Al Saud, Saudi Arabias Ambassador to the US and His Royal Highness Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Space Commission during a courtesy visit, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Office of the Administrator - China - EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy meeting with members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai , Environmental Protection Agency

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Guam, U.S. Territory

11/18/1991. 11/19/2001 Photo: Millán Herce. Presentation of the Innovation master plan.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez Trip from Japan

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining other senior officials for ribbon-cutting ceremony, briefing, tours at the new Interior Operations Center (IOC)

Office of the Administrator - China - EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy meeting with members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a trade roundtable hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the British American Business Council in London, United Kingdom on July 21, 2020.

Office of the Deputy Secretary (David Sampson) - Lunch with Russian Ambassador Yuri Ushakoc

Art Azarbarzin, NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) project manager, left, participates in the GPM Launch Readiness Review (LRR) along with Chief officers from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 at Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch aboard an H-IIA rocket early on the morning of Feb. 28 Japan time. At the meeting in the space center's Range Control Center, all preparations to date were reviewed and approval was given to proceed with launch on schedule. Once launched, the GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours.

Office of the Administrator - Women in Diplomacy , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Secretary - AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

Office of the Secretary - JCCT BILATERAL

Office of the Administrator - China - EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy meeting with members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 6, 2021.

Office of the Secretary - EARTH OBSERVATION SUMMIT

Small group of Business persons in a discussion

Insular Areas Health Summit ("The Future of Health Care in the Insular Areas: A Leaders Summit") at the Marriott Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined senior federal health officials and leaders of the U.S. territories and freely associated states to discuss strategies and initiatives for advancing health care in those communinties. Among federal officials and island leaders participating with Secretary Kempthorne were Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake, Defense Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness David S.C. Chu, Health and Human Services Assistant Secretaary of Health Joxel Garcia, Hawaii Lieutenant Governor James Aiona, Federated States of Micronesia President Manny Mori, Marshall Islands President Litokwa Tomeing, Republic of Palau Vice President Elias Chin, American Samoa Governor Togiola Tulafono, Guam Governor Felix Camacho, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Governor Benigno Fitial, U.S. Virgin Islands Health Commissione

Office of the Administrator - Aspen , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

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