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Michael A. Levi

David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change

Expertise

Climate change; energy policy; weapons of mass destruction; homeland security; arms control and proliferation; technology and foreign policy; science and technology in the Islamic world.

Programs

Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Program on Energy and National Security, Program on Science and Technology

CFR Events

The Future of Energy

Speakers: Michael A. Levi, William F. Martin and David Sandalow
Presider: Thomas Wallin

Experts discuss the relationship of energy with geopolitics, modernity, and the environment, as well as sources of clean and renewable energy.

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Tackling Climate Change

Speakers: Paula J. Dobriansky, Bill Antholis and Michael A. Levi
Presider: Jessica T. Mathews

What will be the most effective forums for international cooperation in regulating the global commons, and what leadership role should the United States play on these issues? What are the prospects for a climate change agreement at Copenhagen in 2009, and what role should the United States play? What are the prospects for "mini-lateral" cooperation-especially between the United States, European Union, China, and India-among major emitter countries?

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Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Next Administration

Speakers: Madeleine K. Albright, Edward Alden, Elizabeth C. Economy, Tom J. Farer and Michael A. Levi
Introductory Speakers: Robert D. Coombe, John Hickenlooper and Jim Polsfut
Presider: Richard N. Haass

Experts discuss foreign policy challenges for the next administration at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, featuring a special address by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, cosponsored with the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies and the City and County of Denver's 2008 Rocky Mountain Roundtable.

This roundtable was underwritten, in part, by Chevron Corporation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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Press Briefing: U.S.-India Cooperation: A Strategy for Moving Forward [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]

Speakers: Charles Ferguson and Michael A. Levi
Presider: Anya Schmemann

At a CFR press briefing on the U.S.-India nuclear deal, Michael A. Levi and Charles D. Ferguson, authors of U.S.-India Cooperation: A Strategy for Moving Forward, argue that Congress should endorse the deal’s basic framework but delay final approval until critical nonproliferation goals are met.