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He is also co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Commission on Political Reform, whose current recommendations and reports have received widespread publicity in the Washington Post, New York Times and POLITICO which was a major topic at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Glickman talks about national security, economic policy, politics, political reform and food security.

Glickman provides a unique perspective to many of the issues and policies facing the domestic economy and global community and describes how food and the world’s food supply is in the middle of almost every geopolitical relationship. All these are achieved through the lens of “food security.” From 1995 to 2001, he served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

Under his authority, the department forged international trade agreements to expand U.S. markets, operated farm and conservation programs, improved its commitment to fairness and equality in civil right, and modernized food safety regulations. Prior, Glickman served in the U.S.

House of Representatives for 18 years, he was a member of the House Agriculture Committee and spent six years as chairman of the subcommittee with the power over farm policy issues. He was also a leading congressional expert on general aviation policy, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and an active member of the House Judiciary Committee.

Dan Glickman is a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and the executive director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program. The Aspen Institute Congressional Program is a nongovernmental, independent educational program for members of the United States Congress. Legislators are unified with internationally accomplished leaders, experts and academics to review the issues and consider the countless policy options.

The BPC encourages good manners in government and bipartisan solutions to the country’s problems. At the BPC, he co-chairs the center’s Democracy Project and its Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative. At Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Glickman was also the director of the Institute of Politics.