Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns
Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
US Diplomacy in the Trump Era
Janine di Giovanni
Senior Fellow, The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University
YOUNG PATRON EVENT: Human Rights Challenges in the Middle East and Further On
Robert F. Worth
Contributor for The New York Times Magazine
PATRON EVENT: Legacies of the Arab Spring
2018-2019 Lecture Dates
Regular lecture dates for the 2018-2019 season.
Highlights—Past Speakers
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
Dr. Tom Frieden
Diseases Know No Borders: Preventing Epidemics and Avoidable Tragedies in an Increasingly Connected World
Dr. Robert Litwak
Jean H. Lee
Lindsey W. Ford
Shrimp Among Whales: Next Steps for the U.S. and China on Reining in North Korea
General John R. Allen
Michèle Flournoy
David Sanger
U.S. National Security Challenges in the Trump Era
Dr. Michael Sulmeyer
Securing the Fifth Domain
