PARTIAL LIST OF SPEAKERS, 2004-2005

This list is a compilation by ACFR's Washington staff of speakers used in the Committees and at the Annual Conference during the 2004-2005 season. It appears on this web site to give interested parties an idea of the sorts of speakers ACFR employs and should not be taken as a permanent roster of expert talent.

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Edward Abington, Bannerman Associates, representative of the Palestinian Authority in Washington , "The Palestinians and Israel after Arafat"

Herbert Achleitner, Emporia State University , "The Globalization of Information Systems and University Libraries"

Jonathan Adelman, Denver University , "The Case for George Bush's Foreign Policy"

Arthur Alexander, former president, Japan Economic Institute, "The Japanese Economy and the Current Tension with China "

Hannah Allam, Baghdad Bureau Chief, Knight Ridder, " Iraq : Perceptions and Reality"

Sean Anderson, Idaho State University , "The Dynamics of Iranian Politics and U.S. Policy," "The Political Economy of Oil"

Mr. Andrew Apostolou, Director of Research, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, " Iran and U.S. Strategic Interests in Central Asia "

Graham Allison, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy, "Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe"

Ambassador Chris Arcos, Director of International Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, "Coordinating a Global War Against Terrorists"

Charles Bartlett, Coleman/Bartlett's Washington Newsletter, " Should We Look for a New Tack in Our Foreign Policy after January 20, 2005?"

Richard Baum, UCLA China Center , " China : Recent Developments and Trends"

Peter Baxter, Deputy Chief of Mission , Embassy of Australia , " Australia and the War on Terror"

Ilan Berman, Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council, "The Russian-Iranian Strategic Partnership," "Problems of U.S. Policy Toward Iran "

Dr. Luis Bitencourt, Director, Brazil Project, Wilson International Center for Scholars, " Brazil and the FTTA"

Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Former US Ambassador to Yemen , "Ad Hocing Our Way to Baghdad : A View from the Inside Out"

Lt. Scott Borgerson, U.S. Coast Guard Academy , "American Foreign Policy at the Top of the World - the Arctic and the National Interest"

Lee Bowie, Pennsylvania State University , "Ethnicity, Religion and Politics in Iraq "

Paul Bracken, Yale University , " U.S. Foreign Policy: Challenges and Opportunities"

Douglas Brooks, President, International Peace Operations, "The Role of NGOs in Peacekeeping"

Rachel Bronson, Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Programs, Council on Foreign Relations, "Thicker than Oil: The United States and Saudi Arabia "

General Bryan D. Brown, Commander in Chief , U.S. Special Operations Command, briefing on U.S. Special Operations Command

H.E. John Bruton, EU Ambassador to the United States , former Prime Minister of Ireland, "The Future of Europe "

Richard C. Bush III, Director and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The

Brookings Institution, "Current Issues in East Asia- China , Taiwan and the U.S. "

William J. Cabanis, U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic , " Central Europe : Growth and Democracy"

Frank Calzon, Center for a Free Cuba , " Cuba and the Anti-U.S. Axis in Latin America "

Hon. Brian Carlson, former U.S. ambassador to Latvia , "The Immediate Challenge of U.S. Public Diplomacy"

Nayan Chanda, Director and Editor, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, " Vietnam 30 Years Ago and the Implications for Globalization Today"

Jonathan Clarke, Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, "The Neocons and U.S. Foreign Policy"

Adam Clymer, Political Director of the National Annenberg Election Survey at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; former chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times . "Foreign Policy in The Second Term: Going it alone of Seeking Allies at Home and Abroad"

Ambassador Herman Cohen, former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, " Africa : Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel?"

Dr. Isaac Cohen, President and CEO, Inverway LLC, "The Prospects of Latin American Economies," "The Prospects for a Central American Free Trade Agreement"

Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, "Prospects for Reform in Saudi Arabia ."

H.E. Arlette Conzemius, Ambassador of Luxembourg to the U.S. , on U.S.-European Relations

Mr. Seth Cropsey, Director, International Broadcasting Board, "Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting"

Barbara Crosette, former foreign correspondent, New York Times , "Failing the Public: The Media and Foreign Policy"

Ambassador Walter Cutler, President, Meridian International Center and former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia , "The Middle East: Coping with Crisis."

Dr. Arthur I. Cyr, Professor of Political Economy and World Business, and Director of the Clausen Center for World Business at Carthage College, "American Foreign Policy after the 2004 Election"

H.E. Baron Frans van Daele, Ambassador of Belgium to the United States , "Perspectives on Future European Integration."

Tracy Dalby, foreign correspondent, "Cross-Currents in Indonesia "

Maj. Gen. James W. Darden, "Update on Military Action in Europe and Africa "

Amb. Jeffrey Davidow, Institute of the Americas , "The U.S. and Mexico : NAFTA, Drugs, and Migration"

Dr. Jay C. Davis, Director, Anser Institute for Homeland Security, "A Physicist's View of WMD Issues in Iraq and North Korea ," "Issues in Homeland Security"

Sir Richard Dearlove, Former Chief, UK Secret Intelligence Service, "National Security Issues: The Post 9/11 Context."

Amb. Jim Dobbins, RAND, " Nation Building Lessons: Afghanistan and Iraq "

Robert H. Donaldson, University of Tulsa , "Putin's Russia : Emerging Democracy or Creeping Dictatorship?"

Dr. Sidney D. Drell, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, "The Greatest Danger: Nuclear Weapons and Their Proliferation"

Craig Duehring, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, "The Reserves: What They Have Been and Must Become"

Amb. David Dunford, University of Arizona , " Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States : How Important and Where Headed?

Michael Dziedzic, U. S. Institute of Peace, "The Quest for Durable Peace in Disabled States: Have We Learned Anything?" "Wither Kosovo Now?"

Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, "Demographic Trends in Asia/Eurasia: Some Strategic Implications."

Gary Ellis, Medtronic, Inc.; Mike Meyers, Minneapolis Star Tribune; Murray Hardie, Consul and Trade Commissions, Canadian Consulate General; G. Edward Schuh, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, panel on "Offshore Outsourcing: The Clash of Government and Business?"

Mark Falcoff, American Enterprise Institute, "Venezeula and the Anti-American Axis in Latin America ," "The Cuban Economy after Castro"

James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly , "The Media and Foreign Policy"

Mr. Doug Farah, author of Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror , also former Washington Post journalist, "Funding Terrorism"

Evelyn Farkas, Senate Armed Service Committee Staff Member, on issues of U.S. national security

Amb. Harvey Feldman, Heritage Foundation, "The Orange Revolution in Ukraine from the Perspective of an Election Observer"

Mr. Richard Fisher, Vice Chairman, Kissinger McLarty Associates, President-elect, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, "The Global Economy."

Dr. Timothy Floyd, orthopedic surgeon, "Ten Thousand Steps: A Surgeon's View of the War in Iraq "

Stephen Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations, on various topics related to Homeland Security

Gen. Ronald Fogelman (Ret.), U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff, "The Failed Global Pubic Posture in Foreign Affairs: A Perfect, Stormy Media Initiative for DOD, BRAC, QWAC and the QDR"

Major General Carl Freeman, U.S. Army (ret.), "The Challenge of Hemispheric Security Cooperation-Post 9/11"

Leon Fuerth, former national security advisor to Al Gore, " The State of the Military: Righting the Wrongs of the Past Four Years"

Andrew Garfield, Terrorism Research Center , "Terrorism in Ireland and Spain "

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jay Garner, "Government in Iraq : Views of a Former Chief U.S. Civilian Administrator"

Reuel Marc Gerecht, American Enterprise Institute, "Is U.S. Public Diplomacy Necessary in the Middle East ?"

Mr. Raymond V. Gilmartin, Chairman, President, and CEO, Merck & Co., "A Role for Corporate America : Partners in Global Health and Development and the Battle against HIV/AIDS"

Edward Gnehm, former ambassador to Jordan , Australia , and Kuwait , "Pandora's Box in Baghdad "

Richard Greco, Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense, "A View from the Ground: Rebuilding the Economy of Iraq "

Amb. Donald Gregg, Executive Director, The Korea Society, and former US Ambassador to Korea , "Facing the Korean Challenges."

Mr. Lawrence Haas, Vice President and Director of Public Affairs, Manning, Selvage, and Lee, "National Security, the Democratic Party, and Me"

Mary Habeck, Yale University , "Why They Did It: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror"

Michael Haltzel, Senior Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Transatlantic Relations"

Hussain Haqqani, visiting scholar, Carnegie Endowment, " Pakistan : Between Mosque and Military

John F. Harris, Washington Post, "Bill Clinton and Current Foreign Policy"

William Hawkins , U.S. Business and Industry Council, " China , the EU, and Weapons Proliferation"

Colonel Thomas X. Hammes, Marine Senior Military Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies, National Defense University , "Fourth Generation Warfare: What it Means in Afghanistan , in Iraq , and Against the Global Insurgency"

Amb. Paul Hare, former UK ambassador to Cuba : " Cuba : Past, Present, and Future"

Colonel Wolfgang E. Herbst, "Views from the Front: A Panel Discussion by Senior Members of the Iraq Coalition Forces"

Lee Huebner, Northwestern University , former editor of the International Herald Tribune , "The International Media Revolution"

Dr. John Hulsman, Research Fellow in European Affairs, The Heritage Foundation, and Rosa Brooks, Associate Professor, UVA School of Law, "Foreign Policy in the Presidential Campaigns-the Bush and Kerry Platforms"

Charlene Hunter-Galt, formerly of the McNeill-Lehrer NewsHour, on South Africa

Mr. David Isby, author, attorney, and consultant, on the political progress of Afghanistan

Rt. Rev. Johncy Itty, Bishop of Oregon , "Dealing with Darfur: The Crisis in Sudan "

David Jackson, Director, Voice of America , "International Broadcasting: The Voice of America "

Dr. Kenneth Jensen, Executive Director, ACFR, "The Foreign Policy Debate in an Election Year: Views From Inside the Beltway," "Problems of U.S. Foreign Policy Making from the First Gulf War to the Present," "Foreign Affairs Information, Disinformation, and the Incivility of the Current Public Debate"

Ambassador Richard H. Jones, Senior Policy Advisor to Condoleezza Rice and former US Ambassador to Kuwait , Kazakhstan , and Lebanon , " Iraq : Update on US Policy and Events"

Frederick Kagan , U.S. Military Academy , West Point, "The State of the U.S. Military and the Needs of the Second Bush Administration"

Farooq Kathwari, Chairman, President, and CEO, Ethan Allen, Inc., "The Status of Kashmir Given Recent Changes in India-Pakistan Relations"

Brigadier General Tariq Khan: "Views from the Front: A Panel Discussion by Senior Members of the Iraq Coalition Forces"

Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center , "The View of the U.S. Abroad and the Tasks of Public Diplomacy"

Christopher Kojm, Senior Staff, 9/11 Commission, "The 9/11 Commission Report and Fighting Terror"

Rep. Jim Kolbe, "The Refugee Crisis in Sudan "

Alexander Konovalov, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, "The Situation in Russia and Perspectives on U.S.-Russian Relations"

Elie Krakowski, American Foreign Policy Council, "Post-Election Afghanistan "

Richard Ben Kramer, former Pulitzer Prize Winner for International Reporting, "How Israel Lost: The Four Questions"

Roger Kubarych, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, "Going to Extremes-How Record Imbalances Are Being Financed and What That Means for the U.S. Economy and Foreign Policy"

Paulette Kurser, University of Arizona , "EU Agricultural Policy: Diverging Approaches Suggest Trade Disputes"

Amb. Lowell Bruce Laingen, President of the American Academy of Diplomacy, "Iran Revisited: 25 Years Later-A Former Hostage Looks at Today's Iran "

R. Dobie Langenkamp, University of Tulsa Law School , " China and the U.S. : Collision Course on Energy?"

Jonathan Lasch, World Resources Institute, "The Global Ecosystem"

Hon. James Leach, House Committee on International Relations, on the current pressing issues of U.S. foreign policy

Ms. Leslie Lebl, non-resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council of the United States , "The Balkans Re-visited"

Dr. Melvyn P. Leffler, Edward R. Stettinius Professor of American History at the University of Virginia . "9/11 and Bush Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective"

Flynt Lawrence Leverett, Saban Center , Brookings Institution, " Syria , Lebanon , and the Future of the Middle East "

Dr. Kyongsoo Lho, Dean, International Affairs, Seoul National University , "South Korean Security Issues"

Hon. James Lilley, American Enterprise Institute and former ambassador to S. Korea , on various topics related to the Korean Pennisula

Professor Jennie Lincoln, Georgia Tech, "Recent Elections in Latin America "

Richard Lobban , Sudan Studies Association, "The Context and Complexities of Darfur "

Osman Faruk Logoglu, Turkish Ambassador to the United States , " Turkey : A Key Player in the 21 st Century"

Hon. Ray Mabus, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia , " Saudi Arabia and Change in the Middle East "

Brigadier-General (Ret) Don Macnamara, Queen's University (Canada); President, Conference of Defense Associations Institute; Research Fellow, Institute for Research in Public Policy; "Blame It on Canada-But Why?"

Sally McNamara, EU Project Directors, American Legislative Exchange Council, "The Founding and the Future of the European Union"

Valerie McNevin, Senior Financial Sector Specialist in Financial Sector Operations & Policy, World Bank, "Rethinking Intelligence: How the New Methods of Financing Terrorism are Changing and Challenging Us," "The Financing of Terrorism."

Ambassador Maurice P. McTigue, QSO, Director, Government Accountability Project at Mercatus Center, George Mason University, former Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister, and Ambassador in New Zealand, "Living and Prospering in a World of Shrinking Borders"

Ambassador John Maisto, Permanent Representative, Organization of American States, " U.S. Policies Toward Latin America "

David A. Martin, J.D., Professor of International Law at UVA, and Dr. Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies, "What is Best for America? A Dialogue on Immigration"

Hon. Edward Masters, Director, U.S.-Indonesia Society, " Indonesia after the Tsunamis"

Ambassador Jack Matlock, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union , "From the Cold War to the War on Terror -What Has Changed?"

Francisco Mayorga, Albertus Magnus Institute, " Latin America and the Post-US Elections Scenario"

E. Wayne Merry, senior associate, American Foreign Policy Council, " America and Europe: Breaking the Cold War Alliance to Find a True Partnership," "The Next Four Years: Europe and Beyond"

Richard Millett, Marine Corps University and North-South Center, University of Miami, "Lessons Lost, Lessons Forgotten: Afghanistan and Iraq in Light of America's Past Interventions," "Colombia's Conflicts: A Regional Dilemma," "Developments in Venezuela and the Problems They Pose for U.S. Policy Toward Latin America"

Ed Moscovitch, consultant and former Budget Director, State of Massachusetts , "The Twin Deficits and the Long Term Outlook"

Dr. Ahmad Moussalli, Fulbright Scholar, Ball State University , "The Islamic Fundamentalist and Arab Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East "

Ambassador Richard Murphy, Hasib J. Sabbaugh Senior Fellow for the Middle East, Council on Foreign Relations, " Syria and Lebanon in Light of Recent Events"

General William Nash, Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention, Council on Foreign Relations, "Conflict Management in the 21 st Century."

Dr. Paula Newberg, Special Advisor to the United Nations, "Holding the Center in Central Asia: Afghanistan , Kyrgyzstan , Pakistan and Their Neighbors"

Richard Newcomb, former director of the Office of Foreign Asset Control, Department of the Treasury, "Fighting Terrorism on the Financial Front"

William R. Nojay, Rochester attorney and Ukraine election observer, "The Worldwide Democracy Movement and Ukraine 's Orange Revolution"

Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al Guds University in Jerusalem and professor of Islamic philosophy, "Palestinian Politics: Is Peace with Israel Possible?"

Hon. Phyllis Oakley, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, Department of State, "On Fighting Terrorism"

Ambassador Robert Oakley, Former Ambassador to Pakistan, Somalia, and Zaire, currently Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, "What Progress in the War on Terror?"

Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution, "Potential Future Theatres for U.S. Military Action"

Ambassador Jaime Ojeda, former Ambassador from Spain to the US , currently Ambassador-in-Residence, Shenandoah University , " America in the World Today"

Dr. Philip Oldenburg, Columbia University , and Dr. Veena Oldenburg, City University of New York , "How Important Can India Be in the 21 st Century?"

Bard O'Neill, Professor of National Security Strategy, Director of Studies of Political Violence and Terrorism at the National War College , "The Evolving Strategy of Al Qa'ida," "How to Analyze Internal Wars, and U.S. Policy in the Middle East "

Hon. Robert Pearson, Director-General , U.S. Foreign Service, "How the U.S. Diplomatic Corps Will Change in the Second Bush Administration"

Dr. Minxin Pei, Director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "China's Rise and Implications for American Policy"

Shanta Premawardhana, National Council of Churches, on the status of internal conflict in Sri Lanka

Clyde Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute, "The Great Shift in Wealth to the East"

Gerald Robbins, associate scholar, Foreign Policy Research Institute, "How We Lost Turkey: Was It Really Our Fault?" " Turkey : Choosing the West or Islam?"

Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., President and CEO of The Africa Society of The National Summit on Africa, " Africa Today: Emerging Signs of Political and Economic Maturity?"

Ambassador Allan Rock, Canadian Ambassador to the UN, "The International Response to the Human Crisis in Western Sahara "

Aneliese Rohrer, Die Presse ( Austria ), "The US and Europe : Six Degrees of Misunderstanding"

Alan Romberg, Henry Stimson Center , "PRC-Taiwan: What Next?" " China and North Korea "

David Rothkopf, Carnegie Institution, "A New Look at the National Security Council"

Dr. Michael Rubin, scholar in residence, American Enterprise Institute, "Update on Iraq "

Sol Sanders, former Asia Bureau Chief, Business Week , "The North Korea Conundrum," "Asian Economies"

Robert Schadler, Deputy Executive Director, ACFR, "Public Diplomacy: What It Is and Why We Need It."

Charles G. Schott, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade and Investment Policy, International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department, "Free Trade Agendas: Competitive Liberalization and the Bi-Lateral Free Trade Agenda"

Dr. Thomas Schwartz, professor of History, Vanderbilt University , " Iraq -Another Vietnam?"

Jeremy Shapiro, Brookings Institution, "The Fate of the U.S.-European Partnership"

Lee Sigal, Social Science Research Council, on North Korea and nonproliferation

Joseph Sills, former spokesman for UN Secretary-General Boutros Ghali, "Making the UN Work"

Mr. Matt Simmons, Chairman and CEO, Simmons & Company, "The Impending Saudi Arabian Oil Shock"

Amb. Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Director of Program on Eurasia at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, "Indian-Pakistani Relations and the Nuclear Threat"

Charles Skuba, Caribbean Central American Action, on free trade in the Caribbean

Sean Smallman, Latin America Institute, Portland State University , " Venezuela After the Referendum"

Mr. Geoffrey Smith, British journalist and Adjunct Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, "Transatlantic Relations-Did the Elections Matter?"

Ms. Nancy Soderberg, Vice President of Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group, "The Superpower Myth: Challenges Facing U.S. Foreign Policy."

Henry Sokolski, Nonprofit Education Center , "Strategic Weapons: The Global Politics of Nonproliferation," "Getting Real on Iran Policy"

Maurice Sonnenberg, Co-Chairman of the National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community, "The Future of the Intelligence Community Post 9-11: Where We've Been, Where We're Going"

Erick Stakelback, journalist, "The Appearance of a Democratic Opposition in Syra and Other Arab States"

Mr. Walter Stern, Vice Chairman and a Director of Capital International, Inc. and Vice Chairman of Capital Group International, Inc., "An Institutional Investor Looks at the World: Russia , China , and the Middle East ."

Professor Douglas Streusand, Professor of History at Army War College , "Islam in Europe "

Paul and Tatiana Terdal, Ukraine election observers, "Lessons from Ukraine "

Alan Tonelson , U.S. Business and Industry Council, "Globalization and U.S. Trade Issues"

Vladimir I. Toumanoff, former director, Russian Research Center , Harvard, "Putin's Russia "

Mr. Thomas Twetten, former CIA employee, "The Future of American Intelligence."

Dr. Yuri V. Urbanovich, Department of Politics and Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Virginia, with Charlottesville Committee members Hugh Ragsdale and John Woodworth, "Mr. Putin and the Revolutionary Election in the Ukraine"

Mr. Peter Walker, Director, Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University , "Natural Disaster Response-Is Compassion Enough?"

Brigadier General Jan Wang, "Views from the Front: A Panel Discussion by Senior Members of the Iraq Coalition Forces"

Amb. Adam Watson, British embassy in Moscow , Bucharest , Cairo , and Havana , University of Virginia Faculty , "American Foreign Policy Since the End of the Cold War"

Jurgen Weber , Germany 's Federal Commissioner for Foreign Investment and Chairman of the Board of Lufthansa, "Competing in a Global Economy"

Dr. Ruth Wedgwood, Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, "Fighting Terrorism Within the Law"

Ambassador Philip Wilcox, President, Foundation for Middle East Peace, " Israel and Palestine : Is Peace Possible?"

Amb. Ashley Wills, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, on trade as it relates to U.S. South Asia policy

Xiaohui (Anne) Wu, Former Chief Analyst, Asian Department, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "The North Korean Nuclear Problem and the Emergence of China"

Amb. Kenneth Yalowitz, Dartmouth College , "Post-Soviet Transitions: Why the Baltics are Progressing and the Caucasus is Lagging"

Steve Young, Caux Round Table, "Corporate Ethics in a Global Business Environment"

Philip Zelikow, Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, UVA, and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, "The 9/11 Commission's Approach to American Foreign Policy, Past and Future"