ACFR

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Washington, D.C. May 15- 17, 2003

American Empire?
Ends, Means & Perils


Thursday, May 15

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

DACOR Bacon House
Informal Open House
Sponsored by the Pitcairn Trust Company

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Chancery of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Cocktail Reception
Remarks: H.E. Ashraf Qazi, Ambassador

Friday, May 16 Carnegie Endowment

8:00 - 9:30 a.m. On Allies, Competitors, and Global Agendas

Welcome: Kenneth M. Jensen, Executive Director, ACFR

Speaker: Gérard Depayre, Minister and Deputy Head of Delegation EU-EC Delegation to the United States

Breakfast Meeting sponsored by the European Commission

9:45 - 11:30 a.m. The New U.S. National Security Strategy

Moderator: Kenneth Jensen, Executive Director, ACFR

Speakers:
Phillip Zelikow
, Director, The Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
Moises Naim, Editor, Foreign Policy

12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Luncheon

Speaker: Hon. R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence

2:00 - 3:45 p.m. The Near East, Democracy and Peace

Moderator: George Lane, Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen

Speakers:
H.E. Jamsheed Marker, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations
Marina S. Ottaway, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment
Randy Scheunemann, President and Executive Director, Committee for the Liberation of Iraq

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. ACFR Members Meeting

Presiding: Robert H. Donaldson, President

President's Report, Robert H. Donaldson

Executive Director's Report, Kenneth M. Jensen

Development and Finance Committee Report, Richard A. Jacobson

Discussion of Increasing Membership
Nancy Hamlin, Rochester Committee
Frank M. Young, III, Birmingham Committee
Courtenay Weldon, Indianapolis Committee

Evening Event
Dinner at the Benjamin Franklin Diplomatic Room, Department of State

Welcome by Kenneth M. Jensen

Speaker: Introduction of Host by Robert H. Donaldson, President, ACFR

Hon. Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs


Saturday, May 17 Meridian House

8:30 a.m. - 12:00 Board of Directors Meeting

 


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