Bill Browder

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Hermitage Capital Management


Bill Browder - Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice


Malcolm Gladwell

Author of five New York Times bestsellers


International Educator of the Year Award Luncheon - Malcolm Gladwell - David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants


Leon Panetta

Secretary of Defense (2011-2013); Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2011)


A Conversation with Secretary Leon Panetta - Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace


George Friedman

FLASH


George Friedman - Flash Points: The Emerging Crisis in Europe


Steve Levine


Steve LeVine - The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World


David Axelrod

Senior Advisor to President Obama (2009-2011); Institute Director, The University of Chicago Institute of Politics


David Axelrod - Believer: My Forty Years in Politics


Robert Hill

Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; Former Ambassador to Iraq, Poland, Republic of Macedonia and Special Envoy to Kosovo


Ambassador Christopher Robert Hill - Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir


Reach beyond the headlines with the World Affairs Council!


A Conversation with Senator Ted Cruz


Yousef Al Otaiba

Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States


His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba



Ben Blink - Freedom and Power in the Digital Age


George K Friedman is the best, and this book is terrific, but WAC/DFW need to put the microphone in the same room as George when he talks next time. The clinking of glass and other background noises are far more distinct than George’s voice. Find another recording, please.

Love Friedman, but this recording is awful

World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth

James Williams


Major General James Williams - A Conversation on Iraq, Afghanistan, the Islamic State and Beyond 


John Seigenthaler

Circle

Introduced by Ambassador James K. Glassman, former executive director, George W. Bush Institute


Contributors' Circle - John Seigenthaler, News Anchor, Al Jazeera America


Erin Meyer


Erin Meyer - The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business


Helene Gayle


Helene Gayle - Pathways to Empowerment: Helping Women Create Real Change


Senior Energy Writer, The Wall Street Journal


Russell Gold - The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World


Mark Penn, Pollster for President Bill Clinton; Jan van Lohuizen, Pollster for President George W. Bush; Moderated by Mark Kennedy, Director, George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management


Public Opinion & White House Decision Making


Senior Fellow, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Brookings Institution


Michael O’Hanlon - Strategic Reassurance and Strategic Resolve in the U.S.-China Relationship



Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming


Could the creation of a single post-war office solve diplomatic and practical issues before they happen in war-torn nations? Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen believes such an office is the answer to many nation re-building problems.

Learning from Iraq

Red Sparrow is a novel. But how much of it is fiction? Therein lies the tale. Only author Jason Matthews knows. He spent 33 years as a covert operative with the CIA’s National Clandestine Service before creating this debut novel. Matthews, using a sturdy foundation of knowledge acquired on the job, writes of romance and spies, deceit and surprises.

Stealing Secrets--Inside the CIA With the Author of Red Sparrow

Erica Grieder

Texas Monthly Senior Writer Erica Grieder to the Council with a newly published book whose title promises a different perspective: Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas.

Erica Grieder - Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

Rex Tillerson

Mr. Tillerson is a member of the executive committee and is a former chairman of the American Petroleum Institute. He is also a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Rex Tillerson - From Scarcity to Abundance: How Industry Innovation Is Creating a New Era in Energy

Tony Wagner has worked for more than thirty-five years in the field of school improvement. He recently accepted a position as the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology &amp; Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. He was the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of education for more than a decade.

International Educator of the Year Award - Creating Innovators

Co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market John Mackey is also the co-founder of the Conscious Capitalism Movement. The four key pillars of this movement are higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership and conscious culture and management.

Conscious Capitalism

The Art of Intelligence draws from the full arc of Crumpton’s espionage and covert action exploits to explain what America’s spies do and why their service is more valuable than ever. From his early years in Africa, where he recruited and ran sources, from loathsome criminals to heroic warriors; to his liaison assignment at the FBI, the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, the development of the UAV Predator program, and the Afghanistan war; to his later work running all CIA clandestine operations inside the United States, he employs enthralling storytelling to teach important lessons about national security, but also about duty, honor, and love of country.

The Art of Intelligence: Lessons From a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service

Stephen Hadley

The World Affairs Council is pleased to welcome former National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley, as speaker for its annual International Educator of the Year Award Luncheon..

Stephen Hadley - International Educator of the Year Award Luncheon

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