2007 Events

Sir Brian Urquhart

Former Undersecretary-General, United Nations

Ms. Gillian Sorensen

Senior Advisor, UN Foundation

Mr. James S. Sutterlin

Author of The United Nations and Iraq, & The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Security

Prof. Benjamin Rivlin

U.S.-UN Relations Project Director, National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Director Emeritus, CUNY Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

Congressman Tom Lantos

Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs

The Hon. Joseph J. DioGuardi

President, Albanian American Civic League

Ms. Shirley A. Cloyes

Balkan Affairs Adviser, Albanian American Civic League

Ms. Raghida Dergham

Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat Arabic Daily Newspaper

Mr. Hassan I. Mneimneh

Director, Iraq Memory Foundation

Mr. Amir Taheri

Middle East Specialist, Author and Commentator for CNN

Prof. Bernard E. Brown

Project Director, Transatlantic Relations, National Committee on American Foreign Policy

Mr. Jeremy Shapiro

Research Director, Center of the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution

Prof. Martin A. Schain

Director, Center for European Studies, New York University

Ambassador Herman Cohen

former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Dr. J. Peter Pham

Director, The Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Mr. William Brencick

Minister Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Mission to the United Nations

Colonel Jeffrey M. Hewlett

Chief of Staff, U.S. Delegation to UN Military Staff Committee

Ambassador Donald Blinken

Former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary

Professor Ruth Wedgwood

Johns Hopkins University, and Member, UN Human Rights Committee

Professor Benjamin Rivlin

Ralph Bunche Institute, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Mr. Amir Taheri

Author, Journalist & Editor of Politique Internationale

Dr. Fariborz Mokhtari

Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Dr. Ramin Ahmadi

Cofounder, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Dr. Bernard Haykel

Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University

Prof. Gregory Gleason

University of New Mexico

Dr. Murat Laumulin

Deputy Director, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

Professor Vitaly Naumkin

President, International Center for Strategic and Political Studies

Prof. Michael Rywkin (Moderator)

Director, NCAFP Central Asia Project

Prof. Jia Qingguo

Associate Dean, School of International Studies
Peking University

The Hon. Winston Lord

Co-Chairman, International Rescue Committee
Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Prof. Robert A. Scalapino

Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus
Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California-Berkeley

Dr. Yang Jiemian

Vice President, Shanghai Institute for International Studies

Dr. Donald S. Zagoria

Trustee & Project Director, NE Asia Projects, NCAFP (Moderator)

Permanent Representative of the U.S. to the U.N.

Ms. Farida Deif

Middle East and North Africa Researcher, Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

Ms. Mona Aboelnaga Kanaan

Vice Chairman, Senior Managing Director, Overture Asset Managers, LLC

Dr. Sherifa Zuhur

Distinguished Visiting Research Professor of National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Republic of Ireland

Honorary Chairman of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy
Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations

Chef de Cabinet and Administrator of the United Nations Development Program

Professor Chen Qimao

President, Shanghai Center for RimPac Strategic and International Studies

The Honorable J. Stapleton Roy

Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China and Indonesia

Professor Robert A. Scalapino

Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus, Institute of East Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley

Professor Jianwei Wang

Senior Associate at Shanghai Center for RimPac Strategic and International Studies and Eugene Katz Letter and Science Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Professor Donald S. Zagoria (moderator)

Trustee and Project Director, Northeast Asia Projects
National Committee on American Foreign Policy

Jeffrey Fischer

Principal Consultant to the Independent Election Commission of Iraq
Director of the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
Center for Transitional and Post-Conflict Governance

David L. Phillips

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations
worked extensively with the Iraqi Opposition and Iraqi Kurds

Garrick Utley (moderator)

President of the Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce of the State University of New York
Former broadcast journalist on NBC, ABC, CNN, Pubic Radio and Public Television

Vice President of Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group
Former Ambassador and Deputy Assistant to President Bill Clinton

Iranian author of ten books on the Middle East and Islam

Dr. Anders Åslund

Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Former Senior Economic Adviser to the Governments of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan

H.E. Andrey Denisov

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

The Honorable Richard N. Gardner (Moderator)

Professor of Law and International Organization, Columbia University
Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy and Spain

The Honorable Jack F. Matlock

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union

Professor Bernard E. Brown (Moderator)

Project Director
National Committee on American Foreign Policy

Mr. Philippe Errera

Deputy Director, Policy Planning Staff, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Honorable Robert Hunter

Senior Advisor Rand Corporation
Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO

The Honorable Dr. Dieter Kastrup

Former Foreign Policy and Security Adviser to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder

Dr. Bryan T. van Sweringen

Europe Liaison Officer
United States Army

The Honorable Richard C. Holbrooke

Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.)

President, The Scowcroft Group
Former National Security Adviser,
President Gerald R. Ford and President George H.W. Bush

The Honorable Nancy Soderberg (Moderator)

Vice President, International Crisis Group
Former Assistant to President Bill Clinton for
National Security

Ambassador Dennis Ross

Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow
Washington Institute for Near East Policy and
Former Special Middle East Coordinator

Ambassador Mitchell Reiss

Director of Policy Planning and
Special Envoy to the Northern Ireland Peace Process
U.S. Department of State

H.E. Abdullah Gül

Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister
of the Republic of Turkey

H.E. Dan Gillerman

Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations

H.E. Idriss Jazairy

Ambassador of Algeria to the United States

Professor Bernard E. Brown, Moderator

Project Director, National Committee on American Foreign Policy's Transatlantic Project

Mr. Eduardo Bohorquez, CEO/President

WestSphere Capital Advisors, L.P.

The Honorable Herman J. Cohen

Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Richard Grayson, Ph.D.

British Television News

Professor Joseph LaPalombara

Yale University

Professor Ronald Tiersky

Amherst College

Dr. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Dean

John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

The Honorable Gerry Kelly

Member of the Legislative Assembly for North Belfast
Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Policing

General Ralph E. Eberhart

Commander, North American Aerospace Defense
Command and United States Northern Command

The Honorable Hugh Orde, Chief Constable

The Police Service for Northern Ireland

Professor Ruth Wedgwood

Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy
Director of the International Law and Organization Program
Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies

Presentation of the Hans J. Morgenthau Award to The Honorable Richard N. Haass with The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger. Click here to access Haass's speech (PDF | HTML) and photos of the presentation of the award to Haass.

Presentation of the George F. Kennan Award to Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, American International Group with The Honorable Paul A. Volcker. Click here to access Greenberg's speech (PDF | HTML) and photos of the presentation of the award to Greenberg.

Celebration of the Morgenthau and Kennan Centennials

Sheik Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, Chairman

Islamic Supreme Council of America

H.E. Jean-David Levitte

Ambassador of France to the United States

Professor Donald S. Zagoria
NCAFP Project Director, U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations Project

The Honorable Winston Lord

former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia; former U.S. ambassador to China

Professor Kenneth J. Lieberthal

Department of Political Science, University of Michigan; former member, National Security Council

Professor Lu Zhongwei

President, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations

Professor Li Wei

Deputy Director, Division for Arms Control and Security Studies; Director, Center for Counterterrorism Studies, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations

Lt. Gen Jay M. Garner, USA (ret.)

Former Director - Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Postwar Iraq

David L. Phillips

Deputy Director, Council on Foreign Relations Center for Preventive Action; NBC News Consultant

H.E. Adam Thomson

Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN and point person in the British Mission's Delegation to the UN for Postwar Iraq

Dr. Phebe Marr

Middle East scholar and analyst

Ralph A. Cossa

President, Pacific Forum/CSIS

The Honorable Winston Lord

former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia; former U.S. Ambassador to China

Professor Robert A. Scalapino

Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

H.E. Sun Joun-yung

Ambassador, Mission of the Republic of Korea to the UN

The Honorable Richard N. Gardner, Moderator

Professor of Law and International Organization, Columbia University and Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy and Spain

Anne Bayefsky

Adjunct Professor of Law and Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University

The Honorable Fereydoun Hoveyda

NCAFP Senior Fellow and Project Director, Middle East Project and Former Ambassador of lran to the UN

Edward Mortimer

Office of the Secretary General of the UN and Director of Communications

Ambassador John B. Richardson

the European Commission to the United Nations

H.E. Natsagiin Bagabandi

President of Mongolia

H.E. John D. Negroponte

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

H.E. Brian Cowen

Foreign Minister of Ireland

Dr. Shashi Tharoor

Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information

H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein

Ambassador of Jordan to the UN

H.E. Yukio Satoh

Ambassador of Japan to the UN

H.E. Arta Dade

Foreign Minister of Albania

H.E. Shamshad Ahmad

Ambassador of Pakistan to the UN

Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Director of Transatlantic Relations, European Union Institute of Security Studies, Paris

Ambassador Richard N. Haass

Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State