The Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture

Named Meetings and Lectureships at the Council on Foreign Relations

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:

Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture: A Conversation with Bertie Ahern

General Meeting

March 14, 2007

Speaker:	Bertie Ahern, Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland
Presider:	Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

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

General Meeting

September 13, 2005

Speaker:	Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister, Republic of Turkey
Presider:	Joan E. Spero, President, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

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A Meeting with Manmohan Singh

General Meeting

September 24, 2004

Presider:	Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, Republic of India

Meeting with President Saakashvili

General Meeting

February 26, 2004

Presider:	David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker
Speaker:	Mikhail Saakashvili, President, Republic of Georgia

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

General Meeting

January 11, 2002

Presider:	William J. McDonough, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Speaker:	Romano Prodi, President, European Commission

A Breakfast with Ahmed Rashid

General Meeting

December 19, 2001

Presider:	Michael J. Elliott, Editor-at-Large, Time Magazine
Speaker:	Ahmed Rashid, Author, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

A Conversation with Ehud Barak

General Meeting

January 8, 2001

Presider:	Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker:	Ehud Barak, Prime Minister, Israel

European Defense: The Only Thing to Fear is Fear Itself

General Meeting

April 3, 2000

Presider:	Robert E. Hunter, Senior Adviser, RAND Corporation
Speaker:	Lord George Robertson, Secretary-General, NATO

The Asian Financial Crisis

General Meeting

October 13, 1998

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

Security Challenges in the Balkans and the Aegean

General Meeting

March 27, 1998

Presider:	Matthew Nimetz, Partner,, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Speaker:	Theodoros G. Pangalos, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece

Expansion of NATO and the European Union: A British Perspective

General Meeting

September 27, 1996

Presider:	Richard C. Holbrooke
Speaker:	Malcolm Rifkind, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom

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