CGS Director's Roundtable Series
Director: Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
January 2007 - Present
This roundtable series brings together policymakers, scholars, and journalists to explore current policy challenges that have both economic and national security dimensions.
Meetings
Corporate Meeting
Global Economic Trends: A Conversation with Robert Zoellick
Speaker:
Robert B. Zoellick, President, World Bank GroupPresider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Diasporas and the International System
Speakers:
Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Fullilove, Program Director, Global Issues, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics Deputy Director of Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
The U.S.-China Relationship: Ten Years Forward
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
J. Stapleton Roy, Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., Former Ambassador to China, Singapore, and Indonesia, Robert Shapiro, Co-Founder and Chairman, Sonecon, LLCThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable Meeting
Financial Innovation and Market Crises
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Richard BookstaberThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
The Limits to Internationalism
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Daniel K. Tarullo, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law CenterThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Regional Monetary Integration
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Peter B. Kenen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, Ellen E. Meade, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, American UniversityThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Sustainable Development: In Search of Kyoto's Successor
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Mark London, London & Mead, Glenn T. Prickett, Conservation International and Center for Environmental Leadership in BusinessThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Asia and the Dollar
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Development: Force for Good or Waste of Resources?
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, National Endowment for Democracy, Kimberly Ann Elliott, Research Fellow, Center for Global Development, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International EconomicsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Building Better Shock Absorbers for the Global Oil Market
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, The Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, The Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Reforming the World Bank
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Robert M. Bestani, Director General-Private Sector Finance, Asian Development Bank, Ken Lay, Vice President and Treasurer, World BankThis meeting is not for attribution.
Presider:
Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, The Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, The Council on Foreign Relations
This meeting is not for attribution.
National Program Meeting
China’s Environmental Challenge
Speaker:
Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Fellow and Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; author, The River Runs BlackThis meeting is not for attribution.
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