Dr. Robert Sutter, Professor of Practice of International Affairs, Elliott School, George Washington University - Robert Sutter has been Professor of Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University since 2011. He also served as Director of the School’s main undergraduate program, involving over 2,000 students, from 2013-2019. Before that, he taught full-time at Georgetown University for ten years; and he… … Read More
Mr. Steven Feldstein, Winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Mr. Steven Feldstein is receiving the 2023 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for his book The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2021). In his book Feldstein examines how governments in China, Thailand, Ethiopia and the Philippines have used… … Read More
Ambassador William B. Taylor, Vice President, Russia and Europe, U.S. Institute of Peace, former Ambassador to Ukraine - Ambassador William B. Taylor is vice president, Europe and Russia, at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Among his many posts, Ambassador Taylor served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009, in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. In 2019, after President Trump ordered Ambassador Marie… … Read More
Ms. Katherine Zimmerman, Fellow, American Enterprise Institute - Katherine Zimmerman is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on the global Salafi-jihadi movement and counterterrorism. She also studies the al Qaeda network and related trends in the Middle East and Africa, including al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen, al Shabaab in Somalia,… … Read More
Dr. Joseph Sany, Vice President, Africa Center, US Institute of Peace - Dr. Joseph Sany is vice president of the newly established Africa Center at USIP, and has been working at the forefront of peacebuilding with civil society, governments, businesses, and international organizations in Africa for over 20 years. In his most recent role at FHI 360, a non-profit development organization, Dr.… … Read More
Mr. William Drozdiak, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - For more than four decades, William Drozdiak has been regarded as one of the most knowledgeable American observers of European affairs. During his tenure as foreign editor of the Washington Post, the newspaper won Pulitzer Prizes for its international reporting on the Israeli—Palestinian conflict and the collapse of the Soviet… … Read More
Dr. Ishani Dasgupta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville - Please join us for a special fireside chat about the role of Tibet in the tense relations between the world’s two largest countries, India and China. Dr. Ishani Dasgupta earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2022. She was awarded distinction for her dissertation, “Emergence of a… … Read More
Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh, Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky - Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh came to the Patterson School following a Foreign Service career centered on conflict resolution, political-military affairs, and humanitarian issues. In addition to Washington assignments in the State Department, Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill, he served in Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi, Rome, and Bern. In 1992, he led the… … Read More
Ambassador Richard LeBaron, Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council - Ambassador Richard LeBaron is currently a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Global Ties, the umbrella organization that supports the work of local international visitor councils. Ambassador LeBaron will discuss some of the practical progress made in… … Read More Mr. William Drozdiak, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - For more than four decades, William Drozdiak has been regarded as one of the most knowledgeable American observers of European affairs. During his tenure as foreign editor of the Washington Post, the newspaper won Pulitzer Prizes for its international reporting on the Israeli—Palestinian conflict and the collapse of the Soviet… … Read More