2008 Global Leadership Forum - America and the World Beyond 2008

09:00, 1 - 2 May 2008
RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET

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About the event:

A Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Princeton Project on National Security, Newsweek International and Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP event.

To watch videos, read the conference blog and more, see www.rusi.org/globalleaders

On 4 November 2008 the US will elect a new president. In January 2009, the new president will inherit a daunting array of international dangers, challenges and opportunities. How will he or she respond?

In the spirit of great debate befitting a presidential election the Global Leadership Forum will address the most pressing global issues facing the US; ranging from relations with transatlantic allies and the Middle East, to climate change and the crisis in the global economy.

Confirmed Speakers

• Professor Willem Buiter, Chair of European Political Economy, European Institute, London School of Economics
• Kurt Campbell, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Center for a New American Security
• Ashton Carter, Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Former Advisor to FCO, Professorial Fellow, RUSI
• Professor Christopher Coker, Chair, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics
• Professor Michael Cox, Director LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Ivo H Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
• Karen Donfried, Executive Vice President, The German Marshall Fund of the U.S.
• Chris Dickey, Middle East Bureau Chief, Newsweek International 
• Daniel Drezner, Associate Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
• Lee Feinstein, Foreign Policy and National Security Director, Hillary Clinton for President
• Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform 
• Philip Gordon, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
• G John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Politics Princeton University, Academic Co-Chair, Princeton Project on National Security
• Colin H Kahl, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Fellow, Center for a New American Security
• Charles A Kupchan, Professor of International Relations, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
• Mark Leonard, Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
• Professor Anatol Lieven, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
• Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Shadow Minister for National Security, House of Lords
• Sir David Omand, Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
• Kori Schake, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Bradley Professor of International Security Studies, United States Military Academy, West Point, (on leave as Principal Deputy Director in the Secretary of State’s Office of Policy Planning)
• Dr Jamie Shea, Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO HQ
• Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, Academic Co-Chair, Princeton Project on National Security
• Sudeep Singh, Caxton Europe Asset Management

Event manager: Lisa Muxworthy - Events Manager, +44 (0) 20 7747 2619