AmCham Moldova is pleased to invite members to an online session on The First Year of Biden-Harris Administration and Challenges of the New Geopolitical Context, with Jon Decker, White House Correspondent/ Senior National Editor, Gray Television, on Monday, March 21, 2021, between 11:00 – 12:30.

Jon Decker has been a member of the White House Press Corps since 1995, covering the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. He is the only lawyer in the White House Press Corps and was among the few political journalists to correctly predict the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Join us for an overview of President Biden's first year in office, a preview and a forecast for the 2022 U.S. midterms, and also an overview of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, followed by some comments on the crisis in Ukraine and the U.S. administration position.

Following Jon's presentation, you will have the chance to ask your questions in a discussion moderated by Tony Housh, Chair, AmCham Poland.

Starting at 12:00 a networking session will follow the main event, the participants will be split into four rooms, moderated by representatives of the four partner Chambers. The theme of the networking sessions is the conflict in Ukraine – the impact, what you did, and what you intend to do further.

The event is organized in partnership with AmCham Romania, AmCham Bulgaria, and AmCham Poland.

Online registration is required! Registered participants will be provided with the login details via email.

Jon Decker, White House Correspondent, and Senior National Editor – Gray Television

Jon Decker is the White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor for Gray Television and has been a member of the White House Press Corps since 1995. In 2015, he was elected by his colleagues to the Board of the White House Correspondents' Association. Jon serves on the faculty of Georgetown University and the UCLA School of Law where he is an Adjunct Professor. He also serves as a Media Fellow at the McCain Institute. Jon, a member of the Washington, DC Bar and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, is the only lawyer in the White House Press Corps.

Previously, Jon served as the White House correspondent for Fox News Radio, Reuters Television, and SiriusXM Radio; Washington correspondent for PBS Television's "Nightly Business Report"; the host of PBS Television's "This Week in Business"; business reporter for the NBC affiliate in Washington (WRC); and field producer for NBC in Miami. He has served as a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and was also an aide to the late U.S. Senator John Heinz. Jon, who was born in Washington, DC, received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees with Honors from the University of Pennsylvania and received a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. He also studied international law at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Jon has covered the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations, as well as 26 State of the Union Addresses, 7 Presidential elections, and the Impeachments of both President Clinton and President Trump. He has been in the Supreme Court to cover some of the most important cases of the past two decades - including Bush v. Gore, NFIB v. Sebelius - which challenged the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, and Windsor v. the United States - the landmark civil rights case concerning same-sex marriage.

Jon has also covered all four tennis Grand Slams and has served as a Commentator on the Tennis Channel. He also serves as a Board Member of the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation and on the Board of Governors of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

In the past two decades, Jon has reported from Athens, Brussels, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Geneva, The Hague, Stockholm, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the West Bank, Luxembourg, Madrid, Rome, Milan, Montreal, Panama, Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, Seoul, the DMZ, Melbourne, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Havana and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Columbia Journalism Review has called Jon "refreshingly self-aware-for-a-reporter."