1965-74
Sir Patrick Dean
British Ambassador to the United States
Harlan Cleveland
United States Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council
Edwin O. Reischauer
former American Ambassador to Japan
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
Under Secretary of State
William P. Bundy
former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Joseph J. Sisco
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
John K. Fairbank
Director, East Asian Research Center, Harvard University
Galo Plaza
Secretary-General, Organization of American States
1975-84
Ardeshir Zahedi
Ambassador of Iran to the United States
Lucy Wilson Benson
Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance
Ellsworth Bunker
Ambassador-at-Large, Chief United States Negotiator for the Panama Canal Treaties
Arthur A. Hartman
American Ambassador to France
Elliott L. Richardson
Ambassador-at-Large, Special Representative of the President to the Law of the Sea Conference
Richard C. Holbrooke ’62
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
McGeorge Bundy
former Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Sir Nicholas Henderson
British Ambassador to the United States
Herbert S. Okun
American Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic
Marshall D. Shulman
Ambassador, former Special Advisor, Soviet Affairs
Thomas J. Watson Jr. ’37
former American Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Claiborne Pell
United States Senator
Sergio Romano
Ambassador and Director General of Cultural Relations, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yoshio Okawara
Ambassador of Japan to the United States
Ralph Earle II
Chief Negotiator for the United States, Salt II
Langhorne A. Motley
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; former American Ambassador to Brazil
Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan
Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
His Majesty
King Hussein bin Talal
King of Jordan
1985-94
Tom Brokaw
Anchor, NBC Nightly News
Abba Eban
former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and the United States
Sir Curtis Keeble
former British Ambassador to the Soviet Union
John Ferch
former American Ambassador to Honduras; Brown University Diplomat-in-Residence
Mario Soares
President of the Republic of Portugal
Rinaldo Petrignani
Ambassador of Italy to the United States
Richard Schiffer
Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
Emmanuel de Margerie
Ambassador of France to the United States
Thomas W. Simons Jr.
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; Brown University Diplomat-in-Residence
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
President of Mexico
Brian Urquhart
former Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
Eduard Shevardnadze
former Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union
Mary Robinson
President of Ireland
M. Eugenia Charles
Prime Minister of Dominica
Boris Biancheri
Ambassador of Italy to the United States
Michael Zantovsky
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States
1995-2004
A dialogue between
Thomas R. Pickering
American Ambassador to the Russian Federation, and
Yuli M. Vorontsov
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States
John Hume
Irish nationalist leader of the Social Democratic Labour Party; MP for Foyle; and MEP, Derry, Northern Ireland
Shimon Peres
Minister of Foreign Affairs for the State of Israel
Martin Indyk
American Ambassador to Israel
Robert S. McNamara
former U.S. Secretary of Defense; former President of the World Bank
Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
José Ramos-Horta
Co-Laureate of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Peace
Richard C. Holbrooke ’62
former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs and Chief Negotiator for the Dayton Peace Accord in Bosnia
A dialogue, moderated by CNN World Affairs Correspondent Ralph Beglieter ’71, between
Douglas “Pete” Peterson
American Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and
Le Van Bang
Ambassador of Vietnam to the United States
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
Vice Chancellor of the University of Capetown (South Africa)
John Glenn
Retired United States Senator
Her Majesty
Queen Noor
of Jordan
Romano Prodi
President of the European Commission
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
President of Iceland
Alice Shalvi
Rector and Acting President of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
Kim Campbell
former Prime Minister of Canada
Robert E. “Ted” Turner III ’60
Vice Chairman, AOL Time Warner
Mary Robinson
former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Sadako Ogato
former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
former president of Brazil
Mikhail Gorbachev
former president of the Soviet Union
José Maria Neves
Prime Minister of the Republic of Cape Verde
Jorge Castañeda
Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
2005-present
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Democracy and human rights activist and former political prisoner in Egypt
Sima Samar
Chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
Jack Reed
United States Senator from Rhode Island
Paul A. Volcker
Former Chair of the Federal Reserve
Lincoln D. Chafee
Former United States Senator from Rhode Island
Barry R. McCaffrey
Retired U.S. General and National Security and Terrorism Analyst
Richard Haass
President of the Council on Foreign Relations and former director of policy planning for the U.S. Department of State
Evo Morales
President of Bolivia
Leonel Fernandez
President of the Dominican Republic
Romano Prodi
Former Prime Minister of Italy and past president of the European Commission
N.R. Narayana Murthy
Founder and chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Pierre Vimont
Ambassador of France to the United States
Juan Manuel Santos
President of Colombia
Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times columnist
