Dr. Francis Fukuyama
Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University
HITCHCOCK LECTURE: Identity and the Rise of Global Populism
Daniel Sullivan
Senior Advocate for Human Rights at Refugees International
Adrienne Fricke
Senior Fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
The Refugee Crisis in a World of Closing Borders
2018-2019 Lecture Dates
Regular lecture dates for the 2018-2019 season.
Highlights—Past Speakers
Dr. Ricardo Hausmann
PATRON EVENT: Latin America: Venezuela's Collapse and Brazil's Peril
Ambassador Martin Indyk
Israel's Future and Netanyahu's Fate
Ambassador Christopher Hill
North Korea Denuclearization Talks and the Art of the Deal
Robert F. Worth
PATRON EVENT: Legacies of the Arab Spring
Janine di Giovanni
YOUNG PATRON EVENT: Human Rights Challenges in the Middle East and Further On
Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns
US Diplomacy in the Trump Era
Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani
Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson
Special Briefing: A Discussion of Education, Women's Rights and the Blockade
Vali Nasr
Middle East Chess: Iran v. U.S.
Dr. Margarita Konaev
YOUNG PATRON EVENT: Fighting in the Streets: Urban Warfare, The New Battlefield
Dr. Alyssa Ayres
PATRON EVENT: India Grows as a Global Power
Jake Sullivan
American Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump: Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?
Bill Browder
Dr. Michael Carpenter
Standing Up to Corruption: Exposing How Kleptocrats Undermine the Global Order
Dr. Elizabeth Economy
Xi Jinping and China's Third Revolution
Ali Soufan
YOUNG PATRON EVENT: Looming Threats: New Challenges in Counter-Terrorism
Robert D. Kaplan
PATRON EVENT: The Return of Marco Polo's World
David E. Sanger
The Perfect Weapon
Susan Glasser
Putin, Trump and the New Cold War?
General David Petraeus
Max Boot
Assessing the Geopolitical Challenges Facing the U.S. (and the "Return of History")
Jane Harman
OTR 80th Anniversary Lecture
