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Tanzania - Challenges and Opportunities

His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete
President of Tanzania

May 20

Pakistan Today -
Challenges and Opportunities

H.E. Dr. Maleeha Lodhi
Political Commentator. Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the
United States

July 7

T. H. Edward P. Djerejian
Founding Director, James A Baker III Institute
for Public Policy

 Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1993–’94) and Syria (1988–’91)

July 14

Colonel Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot, One of the First Two Men to Walk on the Moon, and Author:

Magnificent Desolation
The Long Journey Home
From The Moon

July 23

China and the Global Economic Crisis

Dr. Nicholas Lardy
Senior Fellow,
Peterson Institute for
International Economics, and
Co-Author, China’s Rise

March 31

Will Terrorism
Go Nuclear?

Brian Jenkins
Senior Advisor,
The RAND Corporation

April 2

Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)

May 11

Dr. Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations,
and author: War of Necessity, War of Choice
A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars 

May 18

video unavailable     May 19

Nuclear North Korea

and the New Administration

Dr. Chaibong Hahm
Senior Political Scientist, RAND

January 22

Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East

The Honorable
Martin Indyk
Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Washington D.C.;

Former US Ambassador
to Israel;
Author, Innocent Abroad

January 28

Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Political Analyst,
Huffington Post

Author, How Obama Won

February 17

His Excellency
Francisco Santos Calderón
Vice President of Colombia

February 25

March 12

Los Angeles, the Capital of the

Pacific Rim

Dr. Steven B. Sample

President, University of Southern California

November 10

The Honorable Rita Lau, JP

Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development,

Hong Kong

November 17

His Excellency John Bruton, Ambassador of the European Union
and Former Prime Minister of Ireland
His Excellency Petr Kolar, Ambassador of the Czech Republic
His Excellency Klaus Scharioth,

Ambassador of Germany
His Excellency

Pierre Vimont,

Ambassador of France
His Excellency

Sir Nigel Sheinwald,

Ambassador of the United Kingdom and

Northern Ireland

December 5

Dr. Edward E. Leamer

Director,

UCLA Anderson Forecast,

Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management,

Professor of Economics and Statistics, UCLA

December 8

Worshiping One God - Three Avenues

The Right Reverend

Alexei R. Smith
Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Imam Dr. Muzammil

H. Siddiqi
Director, Islamic Society of Orange County

Rabbi Mark S. Diamond
Executive Vice President
The Board of Rabbis of Southern California 

December 17

Michael V. Hayden

Director, Central Intelligence Agency

September 16

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The Three Trillion Dollar War:

The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Professor Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist,

Author, The Three Million Dollar War

September 17

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Striking Balance in National defense

Admiral Mike Mullen

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

September 22

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The Economy

and the Elections: What to Expect

Steve Forbes

President, CEO and

Editor-in-Chief,

Forbes magazine

October 14

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Intelligence Gathering, Torture,

and the Future of Interrogation

in Anti-Terrorist Operations

Leonard S. Rubenstein

President, Physicians for Human Rights

October 29

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