Webcast Archives
John Zogby,
11/10/2011
John Zogby currently sits as Chairman of the Board and Chief Insights Officer of IBOPE Zogby International (IZI). He was formerly founder, President, and CEO of Zogby International. In 2008, Zogby authored The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream. His analytical expertise has also been published on the opinion pages of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Christian Science Monitor, and many others. He is a founding contributor to the popular website, the Huffington Post, and currently writes a weekly column for Forbes.com.
Robert Powell, Senior Economist and Editor, Middle East - "Spring Tides: Will the Arab Risings Yield Democracy, Dictatorship, or Disorder?"
09/26/2011
Robert Powell is responsible for the Economist Intelligence Unit's political and economic research in the Middle East. He has been a member of the Middle East analysis team since May 2001. A graduate of Trinity College in Dublin, Mr. Powell has a background in international history and the news, reporting regularly on politics and economics in the Middle East. He has traveled extensively across the region, including Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. He also has extensive knowledge of the energy sector, with a particular focus on the gas industry. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, CNBC the BBC and ABC.
Author and Historian, Dr. Geoffrey Wawro, "Quick Sand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East"
07/21/2011
Dr. Geoffrey Wawro is the General Olinto Mark Barsanti Professor of Military History and Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas in the Dallas Metroplex. From 2000-2005 he was Professor of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. A Modern European historian by training, Dr. Wawro's Ph.D is from Yale University, his B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Brown University. He was an English-Speaking Union Scholar at Cheltenham College and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Vienna. He speaks German, French, Spanish, and Italian.
Gene Coyle, Former CIA Operative
05/25/2011
Over the past century there have been numerous successful espionage and military deception operations, but only a handful have been truly imaginative ploys. On May 25, 2011, Gene Coyle, Former CIA Operative, will discuss some of the cleverer ops since 1914 up until the present -- schemes and deceptions conducted by the Russians, the British, Americans and Israelis. From the CHEKA's brilliant Trust operation of the early 1920s against the West, several WW II ploys, to the CIA's clandestine exfiltration of five American diplomats from revolutionary Iran, to the recent STUXNET computer virus against the Iranian nuclear program. What these and a few other intelligence operations all have in common is that upon hearing about them, one smiles and mumbles "Wasn't that rather clever!"
Aman Ali & Bassam Tariq, Journalists, Bloggers, Filmmakers: "30 Mosques in 30 Days: An American Trip"
03/03/2011
During Ramadan 2010, Islam's holy month of fasting and reflection, New Yorkers Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq took a roadtrip across America, stopping each evening to break their fasts at a different mosque in a different state. The two drove over 13,000 miles during the trip and blogged about it daily on their site, www.30mosques.com. During the trip they prayed inside the infamous "Ground Zero Mosque" in Manhattan, got pulled over by a cop in Mississippi, and visited the first mosque ever built in the U.S. in Ross, North Dakota - a town with only 48 people in it. Along the way they met the protagonists of Dave Eggers' bestselling Zeitoun, Cambodian Muslim victims of the Khmer Rouge, a Pakistani-Mormon couple, and many, many others, all of whom are part of the diverse Muslim-American community. Their journey explores what it means to be Muslim in America today, and serves as a powerful counter-narrative to the media's image of a monolithic Islam, receiving coverage on ABC News, CNN, Time, NPR, Fox News, the Huffington Post and Aljazeera English.
Dr. Raymond Gilpin, United States Institute for Peace: "Addressing the Costs and Consequences of Somali Piracy"
02/03/2011
Raymond Gilpin directs the economics and conflict center at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC. He leads the Institute's work on analyzing relationships among economic actors during all stages of conflict (including prevention, mediation, resolution and post-conflict). In doing so, he collates sound practices from practitioners and experts, and designs appropriate capacity-building tools for conflict environments. He also teaches the economics and conflict course at the USIP Academy and manages the International Network for Economics and Conflict (a web-based portal for practitioners). Before joining the USIP, he served as: academic chair for defense economics at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University; director for International Programs at Intellibridge Corporation (now part of Eurasia Group); senior economist at the African Development Bank Group; research director at the Central Bank of Sierra Leone and an economist at the World Bank. His publications include "Counting the Costs of Somali Piracy." He holds a doctorate from Cambridge University in Economics and an executive certificate in international finance and capital markets from Georgetown University.
Amb. Matthew Barzun, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden: "Diplomacy in the 21st Century: A View from Stockholm and Louisville"
01/07/2011
Matthew W. Barzun was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 7, and sworn in on August 12, 2009 as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden. Ambassador Barzun is an internet pioneer who was the fourth employee at CNET Networks, where he worked from 1993-2004. Ambassador Barzun served in a number of roles at CNET, including Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy officer, and member of the executive committee. More recently, Ambassador Barzun was among the first to join Barack Obama's National Finance Committee, where he produced the first $25 per-person fundraiser and helped teach Obama University for campaign volunteers. In Kentucky, Ambassador Barzun has served on the boards of many non profits with a focus on education (the Louisville Free Public Library Foundation, Louisville Public Media, and Teach Kentucky); public policy (the Kentucky Long Term Policy Research Center, and The Greater Louisville Project) and interfaith relations (Center for Interfaith Relations). He graduated Magna Cum Laude with an AB in History and Literature from Harvard College.
Global Visionaries Luncheon
12/09/2010
The Global Visionaries award celebrates emerging leaders (ages 40 and under) throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana who have exhibited leadership, vision and interest in the area of international affairs. Twenty-five emerging leaders were selected in honor of the 25th Anniversary of the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana (WAC).
