FORA.tv Speaker - Vin Weber

Vin Weber is managing partner of Clark & Weinstock, where he provides strategic advice to institutions with matters before the legislative and executive branches of the federal government and advises clients on issues pertaining to mergers and acquisitions, crisis management, and strategic communications. Weber serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A former congressman, Weber represented Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993. He is former chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and a former member of the US secretary of defense's Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee and the US secretary of state's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. He is a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota and serves as a board member of several private-sector and nonprofit organizations, including the Aspen Institute.