Author Series

Our Author Series features authors and prominent journalists. Recent programs have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, women's leadership, and the Middle East. This series was launched in 2005 with NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

	April 14, 2022 \| Washington, DC \| Online Lessons from the Edge: A Conversation with Ambassador Yovanovitch Marie Yovanovitch, former US Ambassador to Ukraine Moderator: Linda Douglass, former ABC News Correspondent Co-hosted with NYU Washington, DC
	March 29, 2022 \| Washington, DC \| Online The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel Kati Marton, Author of The Chancellor Moderator: Maureen White, WFPG Board of Directors
	April 20, 2021 \| Online The Heartbeat of Iran: Real Voices of a Country and its People Tara Kangarlou, Author Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times
	March 15, 2021 \| Online Master Negotiator: The Role of James A. Baker III at the End of the Cold War Diana Villiers Negroponte, Author Frances Burwell, McLarty Associates
	July 21, 2020 \| Online How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict Nina Jankowicz, Author of How to Lose the Information War Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post National Security Reporter
	July 8, 2020 \| Online The Power of Diplomacy and Importance of Protocol Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall, Author of Protocol Ambassador Dina Kawar, Ambassador of Jordan to the US Ambassador Audrey Marks, Ambassador of Jamaica to the US
	September 9, 2019 \| Washington, DC Putin's World: Against the West and with the Rest Angela Stent, Georgetown University Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief and Correspondent
	May 2, 2019 \| New York, NY Accelerating Impact with Social Innovation Ann Mei Chang, Author and Former USAID Chief Innovation Officer Mary Pflum Peterson, NBC News/Today Show
	April 13, 2018 \| New York, NY May 14, 2018 \| Washington, DC Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World Alyssa Ayres, Author and Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times (Moderator in DC)
	May 7, 2018 \| Washington, DC Beyond Castro: The Future of US Diplomacy in Cuba Hon. Carlos Gutierrez, Former US Secretary of Commerce Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, Author of Our Woman in Havana Kezia McKeague, McLarty Associates (Moderator)
	September 17, 2017 \| Washington, DC Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West William Drozdiak, The Brookings Institution Karen Donfried, The German Marshall Fund (Moderator)
	March 6, 2017 \| New York, NY March 9, 2017 \| Washington, DC Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Helene Cooper, The New York Times
	January 19, 2017 \| Washington, DC The New Sectarianism The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shia-Sunni Divide Author Geneive Abdo
	July 12, 2016 \| Washington, DC The Fires of Spring: A Post-Arab Spring Journey through the Turbulent New Middle East Shelly Culbertston, the RAND Corporation Co-hosted by the Embassy of Slovenia
	November 6, 2015 \| Washington, DC Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Georgetown University
	October 5, 2015 \| New York, NY Women on the Front Lines: Special Operations and America's New Rangers Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Council on Foreign Relations Co-sponsored with the Institute of International Education
	July 21, 2015 \| Washington, DC Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Council on Foreign Relations
	July 22, 2014 \| Washington, DC Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe Ritu Sharma, Women Thrive Worldwide
	June 12, 2013 \| Washington, DC November 12, 2013 \| New York, NY Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism Elizabeth Becker, Author and Journalist Hosted by Consul General Koula Sophianou at the Cyprus House in NY
	October 10, 2013 \| Washington, DC One Hundred Victories Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare Linda Robinson, Senior International Policy Analyst, RAND
	September 6, 2013 \| New York, NY What Does it Take to Compete in the Global Arena? The Challenges for Mexico and Brazil Diana Villiers Negroponte, The Brookings Institution
	June 17, 2013 \| New York, NY Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the US, and the Road Ahead Shannon K. O'Neil, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Moderated by Diana Negroponte in DC and Patricia Ellis in NY
	April 29, 2013 \| Washington, DC However Long the Night A book by Aimee Molloy on Molly Melching's work Molly Melching, Founder and Executive Director of Tostan
	March 11, 2013 \| New York, NY On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future Karen Elliott House, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Hosted by Diana Negroponte in DC and IIE in New York
	June 14, 2012 \| Washington, DC Seeking Peace in El Salvador:The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War Diana Villiers Negroponte, Brookings Institution Nonresident Senior Fellow Hosted by Mr. & Mrs. Maurice B. Tobin and the Honorable Henrietta Fore
	January 27, 2012 \| New York, NY What the US Can Learn from China Ann Lee, Author and Demos Senior Fellow Held at Demos
	October 19, 2011 \| Washington, DC November 10, 2011 \| New York, NY Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself Pamela Constable, Author and Journalist
	September 27, 2011\| Washington, DC Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama Marvin and Deborah Kalb, Journalists and Co-authors Hosted by WFPG Board Member Donna Constantinople
	September 26, 2011 \| New York, NY October 5, 2011 \| Washington, DC Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World Robin Wright, Author and Journalist Hosted by WFPG Board Member Diana Villiers Negroponte Co-sponsored with the Institute of International Education in New York
	March 17, 2011 \| Washington, DC March 21, 2011 \| New York, NY The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Council of Foreign Relations Co-sponsored with the Institute of International Education in New York
	September 16, 2010 \| New York, NY September 21, 2010 \| Washington, DC Generations's End: A Personal Memoir of American Power After 9/11 Scott Malcomson, New York Times Magazine Co-sponsored with the Institute for International Education in New York
	May 10, 2010 \| Washington, DC Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations Hosted by The World Bank
	March 17, 2010 \| Washington, DC Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East Deborah Amos, National Public Radio Held at The Offices of Finmeccanica North America
	October 27, 2009 \| Washington, DC One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy Dr. Allison Stanger, Middlebury College Co-sponsored with NAFSA: Association of International Educators
	October 7, 2009 \| New York, NY October 14, 2009 \| Washington, DC My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran Haleh Esfandiari, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Hosted by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York and by Board Chair Maxine Isaacs in Washington, DC
	October 5, 2009 \| Washington, DC March 18, 2010 \| New York, NY Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World Hon. Linda Tarr-Whelan, Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow, and Former Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women
	September 14, 2009 \| Washington, DC Can Islam be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis Held at the Embassy of Slovenia
	June 17, 2009 \| Washington, DC October 21, 2009 \| New York, NY Insecurity in Central America:Organized Criminal Gangs & the Maras Diana Villiers Negroponte, The Brookings Institution Co-sponsored with the Institute for International Education in New York
	February 18, 2009 \| New York, NY The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution Daniel P. Erikson, US Policy Inter-American Dialogue Co-sponsored with the Insitution of International Education
	February 10, 2009 \| Washington, DC Foreign Policy and National Security Challenges for the Obama Administration David Sanger, The New York Times Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post Held at The Cosmos Club
	January 14, 2009 \| Washington, DC Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq Kimberly Dozier, CBS News Hosted by Board Member Susan Rappaport
	September 11, 2008 \| Washington, DC October 27, 2008 \| New York, NY Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for the Way Out of Iraq Linda Robinson, Johns Hopkins University Hosted by the Austrian Consulate in New York
	June 19, 2008 \| New York, NY June 26, 2008 \| Washington, DC Re-engage! America and the World after Bush Helena Cobban, Boston Review Co-sponsored with the Institute for International Education in New York
	June 13, 2008 \| Washington, DC The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty Laura K. Donohue, CISAC and Standford Law School
	May 13, 2008 \| Washington, DC Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East Robin Wright, The Washington Post Held at the Embassy of Slovenia
	January 10, 2008 \| Washington, DC January 17, 2008 \| New York, NY Condoleezza Rice: An American Life Elizabeth Bumiller, The New York Times Hosted by Board Chair Maxine Isaacs in Washington, DC and by the Austrian Consulate General in New York
	October 30, 2007 \| Washington, DC January 7, 2008 \| New York, NY Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation Barbara Slavin, USA Today
	October 4, 2007 \| Washington, DC China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise Susan Shirk, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs
	September 11, 2007 \| Washington, DC September 20, 2007 \| New York, NY Women, China, and International Relations in the Modern World Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, US-China Education Trust
	June 14, 2007 \| Washington, DC The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family Martha Raddatz, ABC News Hosted by Board Member Donna Constantinople
	April 25, 2007 \| Washington, DC Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali, American Enterprise Institute Hosted by Board Chair Maxine Isaacs
	January 16, 2007 \| Washington, DC Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, and Domstic Politics Carol Lancaster, Georgetown University
	October 30, 2006 \| New York, NY November 1, 2006 \| Washington, DC Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post
	September 6, 2006 \| New York, NY The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban Sarah Chayes, Former NPR Correspondent Co-sponsored with the Institute of International Education
	June 29, 2006 \| Washington, DC New News Out of Africa: Unconvering Africa's Renaissance Charlayne Hunter-Gault, NPR Special Correspondent
	November 21, 2005 \| New York, NY January 17, 2006 \| Washington, DC Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Hosted by Board Chair Maxine Isaacs in Washington, DC