REGULAR DAYTIME EVENTS
HELD AT THE NYC PRIVATE CLUBS, AND ON ZOOM.
All are welcome to bring a bagged lunch at noon to dine in the reception hall.
September 17 at 1 PM: Adjusting to a New World Order
Joe Klein is a political journalist and author renowned for his incisive commentary on U.S. politics. Throughout his career, Klein has been a political columnist for notable publications such as Newsweek and Time magazine, where his weekly column "In the Arena" covered national and international affairs, earning him two National Headliner Awards. He is known for his novel Primary Colors, which was a roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Mr. Klein has authored several other books, including Woody Guthrie: A Life; Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam; and The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton.
October 15 at 1 PM: Garden of the Righteous
Richard Hurowitz is an investor, writer and the publisher of the Octavian Report. His latest book, In the Garden of the Righteous (Harper, 2023), chronicles extraordinary acts of courage. In another book (Public Affairs, 2018): Fight for Liberty: Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump, Mr. Hurowitz brings together essays from respected writers and thinkers, including Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Max Boot, Bret Stephens, Richard North Patterson, Ted Koppel, Natan Sharansky who make the “urgent” case for liberal democracy. Mr. Hurowitz has served on the boards of several international companies, worked in hedge fund investment and was the founder and chief investment officer of Octavian Advisors, an international special situations and distressed investment fund.
November 5 at 1 PM: America Adrift: The End of the East Coast Foreign Policy Elite
Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter is a global leader, scholar and public commentator. She is currently CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing the promise of America in a period of rapid demographic, technological, and global change. She previously served as a professor of international, foreign, and comparative law at Harvard Law School; dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; and as the first woman director of policy planning for the United States Department of State.
December 3 at 1 PM: It’s Physics not Politics, Visions of A Sustainable Future
Mark Gabriel, President and CEO, United Power; award-winning author of Visions for a Sustainable Energy Future.
January 21 at 1 PM: Systemic Corruption in Russia and War in Ukraine
Matthew Murray, Human rights lawyer, civil society activist and founder of an anti-corruption NGO in Russia. Professor at the Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs and Harriman Institute and co-founder of a Columbia Forum that convenes U.S. government experts, practitioners and academics to Innovate Solutions to Systemic Corruption.
February 11 at 1 PM: Venezuelan Oil and the US Energy Strategy. Why Trump and Big Oil are not Always on the Same Page
Katharina Kort is an award-winning journalist and correspondent at DER SPIEGEL, where she covers U.S. business and economic affairs. Born in Germany and professionally shaped in Italy, Germany, and the United States, she brings extensive international experience and a broad transatlantic network to her reporting. Prior to joining DER SPIEGEL, Ms. Kort served as U.S. Bureau Chief of Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading business newspaper, overseeing its entire U.S. coverage. Earlier in her career, she worked as Italy correspondent and served as President of the Foreign Press Association in Milan, where she led a prestigious organization of more than 100 international correspondents across politics, business, and culture. Ms. Kort is a recipient of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism. Her professional focus includes business journalism, international communication, social media, and podcasting.
March 11 at 1 PM: The New National Security Strategy
Robin Quinville is the former Director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program (2022-2025). She spent more than 30 years as a U.S. diplomat. She served primarily in Europe, including postings to two multilateral organizations (the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO) and bilateral postings to Cyprus, Bosnia, Greece, the United Kingdom and Germany. She also spent a year in Baghdad, Iraq. In Washington, she directed the Office of Western European Affairs at the Department of State. Her final diplomatic assignment was a chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Robin spent a semester as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College. A native of California, Robin now lives in Arlington, Virginia and is affiliated with the American-German Institute. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands and her MA in European History from Columbia University.
April 8 at 1 PM: Geopolitical Tensions: US-China Relations and the Taiwan Strait
Ambassador Susan M. Elliott is a diplomat with a 27-year career in the U.S. Department of State, serving in senior roles including U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan and Civilian Deputy at U.S. European Command. Ambassador Elliot is President and CEO of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.
May 13 at 1 PM: The State of Major Power Competition in the Trump 2.0 Era: The Tools and Rules of Competition
Dewardric L. McNeal, former Obama Administration appointee and expert on U.S.-China relations, is Managing Director of Longview Global, advising governments and corporations worldwide on policy, trade, and security, following a career spanning the Department of Defense, the Brookings Institution, and international development in Africa.
PATRON EVENTS
EVENT LOCATIONS ANNOUNCED TO PATRON MEMBERS
All Patron events will only be offered in person.
March 3 at 6:30 PM: Certainties amidst the Uncertainty of the New World Order
Dr. Lori Esposito Murray is a distinguished expert in national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control, with senior experience in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in multilateral arms control negotiations. She has served as Special Advisor to the President on the Chemical Weapons Convention and as Assistant Director for Multilateral Affairs at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, leading negotiations on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons issues. A former President and CEO of the World Affairs Councils of America and holder of the distinguished national security chair at the U.S. Naval Academy, Dr. Murray brings decades of leadership at the intersection of policy, strategy, and global security.
April 16 at 6:30 PM: TBA
Dr. Carla Anne Robbins is a veteran foreign policy journalist and national security expert whose career spans leading global media organizations, academia, and top policy institutions. A Pulitzer Prize–winning former deputy editorial page editor at The New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she reported extensively from Latin America, Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of international affairs at Baruch College’s Marxe School, Dr. Robbins brings deep expertise in global security, U.S. foreign policy, and international diplomacy, grounded in decades of frontline reporting and scholarly leadership.
November 18 at 6:30 PM: Brushstrokes of Freedom: From Life Under Socialism to the Global Art Stage
Cornelia Thomsen is a German-born artist whose abstract paintings in watercolor and oil draw on her experiences growing up in East Germany under a surveillance state. Trained at the Meissen Porcelain Company and the University of Art and Design in Offenbach, she moved to New York in 2006, where her work explores memory, resilience, and the psychological traces of life under political repression through color, pattern, and form.
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ELIZABETH FRENCH HITCHCOCK LECTURE
Hybrid Event
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