Foreign Press Centers (U.S. Department of State)

Welcome to Cleveland!  The Foreign Press Centers (FPC) will be open Monday, July 18 beginning at 9:00 a.m.
 
Location:  Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland booth #550
 
Hours:  Monday, July 18 through Thursday, July 21 from 9:00 a.m. until one hour after gavel.
 
FPC Briefing Schedule: 

 
Monday, July 18
11:00   Dr. John Green, Director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, The University of Akron
Topic:  What to expect at the 2016 GOP Convention
 

Tuesday, July 19
12:00   Joe Schmidtz, Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Foreign Policy Adviser to Trump Campaign
Topic:  What Foreign Policy would look like under a Trump Presidency
 
1:00     Sichan Siv, Texas Delegate - former UN Ambassador


Wednesday, July 20
11:00   Steve Yates, Chairman, Idaho GOP
Topic: The 2016 GOP platform
 
1:00     Kyle Kondik, Director of Communications, and Geoff Skelly, Media Relations Coordinator, University of Virginia Center for Politics
Topic:  The state of the race for the presidency
 
3:00     Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review
Topic: Covering the 2016 election: issues important to conservatives
 
4:30     Ed O'Keefe, Reporter, The Washington Post

5:30     Craig Dunn, Chairman, Howard County, Indiana, GOP
Topic: The role of a delegate


Thursday July 21
11:00    Robert D' Onofrio, Head of Data, Facebook
Topic: Social Media Data and Trends

2:30      Monica Crowley and Rick Grenell, 2016 GOP Convention Surrogates


Online FPC briefing schedule: https://goo.gl/Wd1r57
Photos, audio and other multimedia from FPC briefings: https://goo.gl/MJdMyp