Renewing America Roundtable Series
Director: James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
July 1, 2011 - Present
Part of CFR's Renewing America initiative, this roundtable series brings high-level attention to homegrown challenges to U.S. national security. Meetings in this series are led by individual CFR fellows and examine how policies at home will directly influence the economic and military strength of the United States and its ability to act in the world.
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
Curbing the Global Power Shift: The Reckoning
Speaker: Michael Moran, Renaissance Insights
Presider: Edward Alden, Council on Foreign Relations
April 16, 2012
Roundtable Meeting
Why the Eurozone Crisis is Not Over
Speakers: Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times; Distinguished Visiting Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
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
April 9, 2012
Roundtable Meeting
The Future of Global Innovation: Using the New Rules to Our Advantage
Speaker: Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, The Economist
Presider: Edward Alden, Council on Foreign Relations
March 15, 2012
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Roundtable Meeting
Two Views of the U.S. Economy: The Short- and the Long-Run
Speaker: Jan Hatzius, Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs
Presider: Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
March 13, 2012
Roundtable Meeting
Opportunity, Jobs, and Inequality: Long-Run Challenges to American Capitalism
Speakers: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
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
February 22, 2012
Roundtable Meeting
The U.S. Aging Population as an Economic Growth Driver for Global Competitiveness
Speakers: Joseph F. Coughlin, AgeLab, MIT
Kelly Michel, AEGON
Presider: Michael W. Hodin, Council on Foreign Relations
February 14, 2012
Roundtable Meeting
Revitalizing the U.S. Economy After the Election: A Conversation with Glenn Hubbard
Speaker: R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Business; Former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Presider: W. Bowman Cutter, Senior Fellow and Director of the Next American Economy Project, Roosevelt Institute
January 30, 2012
Roundtable Meeting
The Eurozone Crisis and the Future of Cross-Border Banking
Speakers: Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Research, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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
January 9, 2012
Roundtable Meeting
Global Trade in Services: An Opportunity for the United States
Speaker: J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown University
Presider: Edward Alden, Council on Foreign Relations
December 19, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
Consequences of the Eurozone Crisis
Speaker: John P. Lipsky, Former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Presiders: Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
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
December 7, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
Differences Between the U.S. and European Financial Systems
Speaker: Thomas Philippon, Associate Professor of Finance, NYU-Stern
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
December 6, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
China's Economic Future
Speaker: Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Presiders: Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations
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
November 21, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
Addressing the Challenge of State-Owned Enterprises
Presider: Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
November 16, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
The Budget Politics of Washington
Speakers: Vin Weber, Clark & Weinstock
Robert E. Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Sebastian Mallaby, Council on Foreign Relations
October 20, 2011 - September 20, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
The Future of Alaskan Energy
Speakers: Daniel Sullivan, Alaska Department of Natural Resources
Captain Melissa Bert, USCG, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Michael A. Levi, Council on Foreign Relations
October 7, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
Prospects for the American Economy and What to Do About It
Speaker: Martin S. Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Presider: Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
April 11, 2011
This session of Ambassador Blackwill's roundtable series featured Martin Feldstein, who drew on insights from his years of experience as an economic advisor under the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations, in addition to several years as president and CEO of the renowned, nonpartisan American economics think tank NBER.
Roundtable Meeting
American Renewal: U.S. Prospects in the Technology Race with Asia
Speaker: Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations
January 18, 2011
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