The John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture
This lecture was inaugurated in 2002 in memory of Council member John B. Hurford. Funded by the Hurford Foundation, this annual lecture features individuals who represent critical new thinking in foreign policy.
John B. Hurford (1938-2000)
John B. Hurford was a graduate of Haverford College and Harvard University and spent two years in India through Fulbright Fellowships, where he lectured at the Institute for Economic Growth and the University of Delhi.
He then began his business career at Lazard Freres and Company, where he worked on mergers, acquisitions and investment research. In 1969, he joined BEA Associates, a New York-based investment management firm as a Managing Director. In 1998, he became Vice Chairman of U.S. Equities at Credit Suisse Asset Management, the successor firm to BEA Associates.
Hurford Lectures:
Speaker:
Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentPresider:
Nicholas D. Kristof, Columnist, New York Times
Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
March 7, 2012
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Michael Spence
Speaker:
A. Michael Spence, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics; Former Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development (2006-2010); Author, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed WorldPresider:
John Cassidy, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
May 16, 2011
5:30-6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
May 27, 2010
5:30-6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Meeting
7:00-8:00 p.m. - Cocktail Reception
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Speakers:
Stuart Bowen Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction; Lead author, Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience, James Dobbins, Senior Fellow and Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, Rand Corporation; Lead author, Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority, Douglas J. Feith, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for National Security Strategies, Hudson Institute; Author, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism; Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of DefensePresider:
Gideon Rose, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
June 23, 2009
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speakers:
David Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Coauthor, Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, Jack Goldsmith, Professor, Harvard Law School; Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice; Author, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush AdministrationPresider:
Jeffrey Toobin, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
January 15, 2008
12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting
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Speaker:
Josef Joffe, Editor, Die Zeit; and author, Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of AmericaPresider:
James Traub, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY
June 16, 2006
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General Meeting
The World's Worst Problems: Finding the Biggest Bang for the Buck Through Cost-Benefit Analysis
Presider:
John Cassidy, Staff Writer, The New YorkerSpeaker:
Bjorn Lomborg, Editor and Project Lead, Global Crises, Global Solutions, the official report of the Copenhagen Consensus; Professor of Statistics, University of Aarhus; Director, Danish Environmental Assessment InstituteThis meeting is not for attribution.
General Meeting
America's Role in the World
Presider:
James M. Lindsay, Vice President & Director of Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Max Boot, Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreigh Relations, Ohio State University, John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies and Professor of Political Science, Mershon CenterThis meeting is not for attribution.
General Meeting
Americans are from Mars, Europeans Are From Venus: They Agree on Little and Understand Each Other Less and Less
Presider:
Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, New York University, Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceThis meeting is not for attribution.
