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2026-2027 SEASON SCHEDULE

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 9, 2026 at 1 PM: The State of U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy & Policy
Lauryn Williams is the deputy director and senior fellow in the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before joining CSIS, she served as chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, where she helped lead the release of the National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan.

October 14, 2026 at 1 PM: The New Arena of Diplomacy: Sport, Geopolitics, Narrative, and the FIFA World Cup
Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a globally recognized sports diplomacy expert, consultant, and author of Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA. A clinical assistant professor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport, she also directs the FranceAndUS project, highlighting Franco-American sports relations.

November 18, 2026 at 1 PM: Economic Developments in Americas
Ambassador Hector E. Morales, Jr. is a distinguished business leader, diplomat, and lawyer with deep experience in finance, infrastructure, public policy, and inter-American affairs. He is currently a Managing Director at Macquarie Capital, where he leads the firm’s Latin America infrastructure and energy capital efforts. Previously, he served as U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, representing the United States at the hemisphere’s leading multilateral forum during a period of important regional challenges.

December 9, 2026 at 1 PM: The Impact of Global Health
Thomas Bollyky is the Bloomberg Chair in Global Health and senior fellow for international economics, law and development at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the founding editor of Think Global Health, an online magazine that examines how health impacts various sectors.

January 13, 2027 at 1 PM: India and Critical and Emerging Technologies
Richard Rossow is the Managing Director of McLarty Associates, leading the India & South Asia practice, and holds the Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as Director of Operations at the US-India Business Council from 1998 to 2008 and later worked at New York Life Insurance Company as Head of International Governmental Affairs from 2008 to 2012. Rossow earned his BA from Grand Valley State University and is a senior adviser at CSIS, where he focuses on India and Emerging Asia Economics.

February 10, 2027 at 1 PM: TBA
Jessica Chen Weiss is the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies and the inaugural faculty director of the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs (ACF) at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Her upcoming book, What China Wants: And What It Means For the World, looks at how domestic politics and regime insecurity shape China’s foreign policy ambitions, prospects for peaceful coexistence, and the future of international order.

March 17, 2027 at 1 PM: TBA
Ambassador Alina Romanowski is a distinguished fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs. Ambassador Romanowski is a national security expert with over forty years of US government experience across diplomacy, defense, intelligence, and development. She most recently served as US ambassador to Iraq (2022 to 2024) and Kuwait (2020 to 2022).

April 7, 2027

May 5, 2027

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September 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM: America’s Strategic Risks: Deterrence and Emerging Threats
Mallory Stewart is a national security expert specializing in arms control, deterrence, nonproliferation, and emerging technologies. She is Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Strategic Risks and previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability from 2022 to 2025. She has also held senior roles at the White House, the State Department, and Sandia National Laboratories, and is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.

October 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM: The State of Nuclear Security
Rose Gottemoeller is a leading expert on nuclear security, arms control, and strategic stability. She is the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2016 to 2019, she served as NATO’s first female Deputy Secretary General. Earlier, she was U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and chief negotiator of the New START treaty with Russia, the most important bilateral nuclear arms control agreement in a generation.

February 23, 2027 at 6:30 PM: Beyond the Headlines: Understanding Media's Global Impact
Andrew Sollinger is a publisher & CEO at Foreign Policy. Previously, Andrew was EVP of Subscriptions at Business Insider, Executive Director of Capital New York (now Politico NY) and Managing Director of the Financial Times Americas.

REGULAR DAYTIME EVENTS HELD AT THE NYC PRIVATE CLUBS, AND ON ZOOM.

PATRON EVENTS

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REGULAR DAYTIME EVENTS
HELD AT THE NYC PRIVATE CLUBS, AND ON ZOOM.