Past Speakers

Philip Brown

Philip Brown, Assistant Professor of Economics,
Colby College

Laurence Pope

Laurence Pope, former Political Adviser; US Central Command, Adviser to the US Mission to the UN; Senior Fellow, Armed Forces Staff College

John Heimann

John Heimann, Financial Stability Institute, Former Comptroller of the US Treasury
Andes 2020: A New Strategy for the Challenges for Colombia and the Region – a report sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations Center for Preventive Action

Bowman Miller

Bowman Miller, Director, Office of Analysis for
Europe, U.S. Department of State

Robert Finn

Robert Finn, Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Visiting Professor in the Near Eastern Studies
Department at Princeton University

Selig S. Harrison

Selig S. Harrison, Director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy and author of Korean
Endgame: Report from North Korea

Hadi Semati

Hadi Semati, Political Science Professor on
leave from Tehran University, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Hussain Haqqani

Hussain Haqqani, Pakistani Journalist and Diplomat, Visiting Scholar , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Dana Priest

Dana Priest, The Washington Post (Reporter on
Military and Intelligence Issues)

Alan Cullison

Alan Cullison, Moscow Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal (Nieman Fellow)

Tom Tietenberg

Tom Tietenberg, Professor of Economics and Director Environmental Studies Program, Colby College

Upcoming Speakers

  • October 19, 2026
    Kim Ghattas
    Topic: The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
  • November 9, 2026
    Joel Wit
    Topic: Understanding North Korea
  • January 11, 2027
    Admiral Gary Roughead
    Topic: The Impact on the Military of the Changing World Order

Past Speakers