SEDONA, AZ – Today, U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, announced that he will participate in this weekend’s 2014 Sedona Forum hosted by the McCain Institute for International Leadership in Sedona, Arizona. The annual forum will focus on “Crisis in the Middle East: Values, Strategy and Options,” and will also include sessions on Russia and Ukraine and on combating human trafficking.

The Sedona Forum is the McCain Institute’s annual gathering of national and international thought-leaders, decision-makers, business leaders, philanthropists, activists, and experts to discuss approaches and solutions to real-world problems from the starting assumption of character-driven leadership and core democratic values. For more information on the Sedona Forum 2014, click HERE.

WHO:             U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine

WHAT:          The Sedona Forum 2014 hosted by the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University

WHEN:          Saturday, April 26, 2014

WHERE:        The Enchantment Resort

525 Boynton Canyon Road, Sedona, Arizona 86336

In addition to Senator King and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), other participants will include: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Ambassador William J. Burns; as well as fellow U.S. Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz., Ret.).

Other participants will include: General Electric Chairman and CEO and McCain Institute Board Member Jeff Immelt; Walmart-USA U.S. President and CEO Bill Simon; Chevon President and CEO John Watson; Fedex President and CEO Fred Smith; Hewlett-Packard President and CEO Meg Whitman; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Peter MacKay; Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius; former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov; Founder of Education for Employment Ron Bruder; Former CENTCOM Commander James Mattis; as well as many other renowned U.S. and international policy exerts; prominent civil society, women’s rights, and democracy advocates.

Located in Washington, D.C. with a strong footprint in Arizona, the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University is a non-partisan, do-tank dedicated to advancing character-driven leadership based on security, economic opportunity, and human freedom and democracy in the United States and around the world. The Institute seeks to promote leadership and decision-making in the best American tradition of open inquiry, spirited debate, and practical action, and to embrace technology in producing better designs for better decisions in national and international policy. For more information on the McCain Institute, click HERE.

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