Events

Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook

Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

President's Club Dinner with Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Kazakhstan: The Crossroads of the New Silk Road

Erzhan Kazykhanov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States

The People vs. Democracy

Yascha Mounk, Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Political Reform Program, New America. Moderated by Jerome McDonnell.

Youthquake: The Global Rise of the Next Generation

Ertharin Cousin, Distinguished Fellow, Global Food and Agriculture; Rayid Ghani, Director, Center for Data Science and Public Policy, University of Chicago; Former Chief Scientist, Obama for America 2012 ; Felix Kwame Yeboah, Assistant Professor, International Development, Michigan State University. Moderated by Alesha Black.

The Indo-Pacific and the "Quad"

Emma Chanlett-Avery, Specialist in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Service; Weston Konishi, Senior Fellow, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. Moderated by Karl Friedhoff.

Poets of the Podium: The Art of Speechwriting

David Litt, Author; Writer and Producer, Funny or Die; Former Speechwriter to President Barack Obama; Mary Kate Cary, Former speechwriter to President George H. W. Bush; Robert Pinsky, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University; Former United States Poet Laureate. Moderated by Henry Bienen.

YP Meet-Up: Poets of the Podium

Ending Gender-Based Violence

Lina Khalifeh, Founder of SheFighter, Vital Voices Fellow; Samar Minallah Khan, Founder and Director, Ethnomedia; Alyse Nelson, President and CEO, Vital Voices . Moderated by Niamh King.

Euro-Atlantic Relations: The Czech Perspective

Michael Žantovský, Vice President, Aspen Institute Central Europe; Executive Director, Václav Havel Library