A Conversation with the Right Honorable Gordon Brown MP
Related Project: C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics
Speaker: Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Her Majesty's Treasury, United Kingdom
Presider: Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Please note: We are wait listing only. Please call the Meetings Response line 212/434-9600 or email meetings@cfr.org.
Balancing Civil Liberties and Security: Revisiting the Debate in the Age of Terror
Presider: Stanley S. Arkin, Senior Partner, Arkin Kaplan LLP
Speaker: Michael Ignatieff, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Author, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
**This meeting will be on-the-record.
Prospects for Reform in Iran: The Future of Civil Society
Related Project: Roundtable on Economic and Political Development in the Middle East
Presider: Isobel Coleman
Speaker: Mehrangiz Kar, Director, Policy Commission, Harvard University, Sanam Anderlini, Women Waging Peace
Climate Change: Debating America’s Policy Options
Panelist: James M. Strock, Principal, James Strock & Co.
Speaker: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University
Cosponsor: World Affairs Council of Northern California
* Meeting - World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street
** Roundtable Dinner - Campton Place Hotel, 340 Stockton Street
A More Secure World: Who Needs to Do What?
Commentator: Brent Scowcroft, President, The Scowcroft Group
Presider: Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations
The Threat of Genocide in Darfur, Sudan: Why Can’t It Be Stopped?
Panelist: Pearl T. Robinson, Professor, Department of Political Science and Administration, Tufts University
Speaker: Princeton N. Lyman, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow and Director of Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
China, IPR and Counterfeiting
Speaker: Charles W. Freeman Jr., Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, China Affairs, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, James Mendenhall, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Intellectual Property, Services, and Investment, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
This meeting is a part of the Corporate Program China Roundtable Series.
Annual Daughters and Sons Event: Outbreak: Viruses and Superbacteria as Tomorrow's Security Threat
Related Project: Daughter and Sons Event Series
Presider: Laura L. Efros, Director of Vaccine Public Policy, Merck and Company, Inc.
Speaker: Anna Shedletsky, Third place winner, Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition, Laurie A. Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
Who Does What? The CIA and DOD
Related Project: Roundtable on National Security: Military Strategy & Options
Panelist: Marine Lieut. Gen. (ret.) Bernard E. Trainor, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Michael Vickers, Director, Strategic Studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, John Collins, Senior Research Associate, U.S. Army (Ret.), Charles Cogan, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Expirations of the Multi-fiber Textile Agreement: Implications for Trade in 2005
Speaker: Bruce Stokes, Columnist, National Journal
McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics: Is China a Google or an Enron?
Related Project: McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics
Presider: Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.
Speaker: Albert Keidel, Senior Associate, China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Nicholas R. Lardy, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Gordon Chang, Author, The Coming Collapse of China
The McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics is sponsored by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Corporate Program.
The Expiration of Textile Quotas: Implications for U.S. Trade Policy
Speaker: Bruce Stokes, International Columnist, National Journal
This call is a part of the Corporate Program "Window on Washington" series.
Higher Education and the American Economy
Related Project: Roundtable on Technology, Innovation, and American Primacy
Presider: James P. Dougherty
Panelist: Kathleen O'Neil, President & Chief Executive Officer, Libert Street Advisors, LLC
Speaker: Daniel Goroff, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University, Michael S. Teitelbaum, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, John N. Yochelson, President, Building Engineering & Science Talent
Presentations
Foreign Policy Outlook for 2005
Panelist: Michael P. Peters, Executive Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
United Nations Reform: Challenges Ahead
Presider: Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Speaker: William H. Luers, President & CEO, United Nations Association of the U.S.A., Mike Glennon, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Steven Steadman, Research Director, High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, United Nations
Militaries and Politics in the Middle East - Session II
Related Project: Study Group on Promoting Political and Economic Reform in the Middle East
Panelist: Lisa Anderson, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Speaker: Steven A. Cook, Next Generation Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Confronting Iraq's Security and Economic Challenges
Related Project: Roundtable on the Middle East and Islam
Presider: Rachel Bronson
Speaker: Samir Sumaida'ie, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations
Emerging Mechanisms of Corporate Accountability in the Global Economy
Related Project: Roundtable on Leveraging the Power of the Private Sector in the Middle East and North Africa
Presider: Elliot Schrage
Speaker: Thomas M.T. Niles, United States Council for International Business, Chip Pitts, Amnesty International, USA, David Rice, BP p.l.c., Nancy Nielsen, Pfizer
Atlanta Holiday Party
Speaker: Judith B. Milestone
The Dollar's Decline and the Impact on the Global Economy
Speaker: David R. Malpass, Chief Economist, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
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