The Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture

The Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture, inaugurated in 1969, was named for a charter member of the Council who served as its President from 1944 to 1946 and as its Chairman from 1946 to 1953. This lecture is given by a distinguished foreign official who is invited to address Council members on a topic of major international significance. The lectures are made possible through the generosity of the Leffingwell family and the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. The endowment for the lectureship was later strengthened through the generosity of Thomas Leffingwell Pulling and his son Edward Leffingwell Pulling.

Recent Leffingwell Lectures:

General Meeting ⁄ New York

Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture: A Conversation with Aung San Suu Kyi

Speaker:

Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary, National League for Democracy; Member of Parliament, Kawmhu Constituency

Presider:

Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065

September 21, 2012 12:30-1:15 p.m. - Lunch
1:15-2:15 p.m. - Meeting

This meeting is not for attribution.

General Meeting ⁄ New York

Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture: The Diplomacy of Climate Change

Speaker:

William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Member of Parliament for Richmond, United Kingdom

Presider:

Christine Todd Whitman, President, Whitman Strategy Group LLC; Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065

September 27, 2010 7:45-8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m. - Meeting

This meeting is on the record.

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General Meeting ⁄ New York

Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture: A Conversation with Bertie Ahern

Speaker:

Bertie Ahern, Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland

Presider:

Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

58 East 68th Street
New York, NY

March 14, 2007 12:30-2:00 p.m.

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General Meeting ⁄ New York

Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture: Turkish Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Stability Creating Power for Global Contribution

Speaker:

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister, Republic of Turkey

Presider:

Joan E. Spero, President, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

58 East 68th Street
New York, NY

September 13, 2005

This meeting is not for attribution.

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A Meeting with Manmohan Singh

Presider:

Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

Speaker:

Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, Republic of India
September 24, 2004

This meeting is not for attribution.

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Meeting with President Saakashvili

Presider:

David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker

Speaker:

Mikhail Saakashvili, President, Republic of Georgia
February 26, 2004

This meeting is not for attribution.

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The Three Key Challenges Facing the EU: The Reality of the Euro, Enlargement from the East, and Institutional Reforms

Presider:

William J. McDonough, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Speaker:

Romano Prodi, President, European Commission
January 11, 2002

This meeting is not for attribution.

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A Breakfast with Ahmed Rashid

Presider:

Michael J. Elliott, Editor-at-Large, Time Magazine

Speaker:

Ahmed Rashid, Author, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
December 19, 2001

This meeting is not for attribution.

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A Conversation with Ehud Barak

Presider:

Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations

Speaker:

Ehud Barak, Prime Minister, Israel
January 8, 2001

This meeting is not for attribution.

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European Defense: The Only Thing to Fear is Fear Itself

Presider:

Robert E. Hunter, Senior Adviser, RAND Corporation

Speaker:

Lord George Robertson, Secretary-General, NATO
April 3, 2000

This meeting is not for attribution.

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The Asian Financial Crisis

Presider:

Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, American International Group; Vice Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations

Speaker:

Lee Kuan Yew, Senior Minister, Republic of Singapore
October 13, 1998

This meeting is not for attribution.

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Security Challenges in the Balkans and the Aegean

Presider:

Matthew Nimetz, Partner,, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Speaker:

Theodoros G. Pangalos, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece
March 27, 1998

This meeting is not for attribution.

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Expansion of NATO and the European Union: A British Perspective

Presider:

Richard C. Holbrooke

Speaker:

Malcolm Rifkind, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom
September 27, 1996

This meeting is not for attribution.