At the direction of King Philippe of Belgium, former Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman, Alfred Welsh, has recently been made an officer in Belgium’s Order of Leopold, which is one of that country’s oldest and highest-ranking Orders. Al was … Read More
Mr. Vangala Ram is an intelligence and Foreign Service professional. He retired from the U.S. Foreign Service as a Senior FSO recently after a distinguished twenty-seven year career, earning a number of awards along the way. Mr. Ram’s tours in … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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. … Read More
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, … Read More