The 2009 Camden Conference, Global Leadership and the U.S. Role in World Affairs, will focus on the myriad of issues facing our new president. Numerous pundits are saying that Obama has the fullest in-box of any president in recent history. Now, just one month after he takes office, nine world-class foreign policy experts will assemble to help us understand the challenges facing the United States and the new administration.
The Conference speakers and schedule is listed below:
Friday, February 20: 8:00 p.m.
- Keynote Address, Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and current adviser to President-elect Obama and his Transition Team.
Saturday, February 21:
Morning Session: 8:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Nicholas Burns, Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to NATO and Greece;
- Denis Lamb, Former U.S. Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Afternoon Session: 1:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Nayan Chanda of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former editor of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review and Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly;
- Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, and President's Special Envoy on Northern Ireland; and,
- Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment and a former Assistant Secretary of State for Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Sunday, February 22: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30p.m.
- John Deutch, MIT Professor and former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and Deputy Secretary of Defense;
- Gareth Evans, President of International Crisis Group and former Australian Foreign Minister;
- Closing Panel with All Speakers
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