Lectures
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Drew Magratten + Dr. Radley M. Horton
Drew Magratten - Executive Production Director and journalist, The Years Project
Dr. Radley M. Horton - Lamont Research Professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute
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Reza Aslan
Writer, commentator, professor, Emmy-nominated producer, and scholar of religions
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Sarah Chayes
Former senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former award-winning reporter for National Public Radio, she also served as special advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Rory Stewart
Academic, diplomat, explorer, author, soldier, former member of British Parliament and a senior fellow at Yale University
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Lynsey Addario
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies
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Scott Andersen
Author, journalist and a veteran war correspondent
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Brendan Guy
Lead strategist, international climate, international program at the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
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Tom Brokaw
Network television journalist, author, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News
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Hassina Sherjan
President of Aid Afghanistan for Education
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David S. Rohde
Author, investigative journalist and online news director for The New Yorker
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Ahmed Rashid
Pakistani journalist and author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia
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Andrea Camuto
Documentary photographer whose work explores issues of women and social justice in Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, India and Mali
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Sima Wali
CEO of Refugee Women in Development and vice president of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute
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Anthony Lake
American diplomat, Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017 and political advisor who served as the 18th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997
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Daniel C. Esty
Environmental lawyer, professor at Yale University with appointments at Yale Law School and the Yale School of the Environment and former Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
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Chris George
Executive Director of IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services), a government and privately funded non-profit helping refugees in Connecticut
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David D. Kirkpatrick
The New York Times international correspondent and the Cairo bureau chief
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Vince Brancato
Co-chairman of the Environmental Stewardship Committee of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, and a member of the Climate Reality leaders worldwide
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Gillian Sorensen
Former United Nations assistant secretary-general for external relations, member of the board of the International Rescue Committee, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
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Neil MacFarquar
Author and Pulitzer Prize journalist. A national correspondent for The New York Times. A former New York Times bureau chief in Cairo, and the Times 's United Nations bureau chief
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Margaret Catley-Carlson
Former chair of the Global Water Partnership, a water management formed by the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program
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Paul Kennedy
Author, British historian and professor of British History at Yale specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy
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Steve Coll
Pulitzer Prize journalist, author and academic. He is the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a staff writer for The New Yorker
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Alex Prud’homme
Journalist and author of several non-fiction books ranging from French cuisine to terrorism, energy, water, art, and business for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Talk, People, and Time
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Barbara Crossette
United Nations correspondent for The Nation, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association. Former writer on international affairs for The New York Times