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The Boise
Committee seeks speakers who bring insight and information not ordinarily
available
through the media. Some will be well known, others not, as many of the best
speakers are
not household names. The well known have included Condolezza Rice
and career
ambassador Robert Oakley. Other memorable speakers at meetings of the
Boise
Committee on Foreign Relations have included __________________________________________________
FEBRUARY MEETING: Peggy
Sands Orchowski, a journalist and author and is
currently the Congressional Correspondent in Washington DC for the
Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education magazine; she covers Congressional,
political and legislative affairs that affect Latinos, particularly in
higher education. She also writes a monthly column “UNCENSORED”. JANUARY MEETING: Ambassador
Patrick Duddy,
currently Diplomat in Residence at Duke University, is one of the State
Department’s most senior Latin American specialists. From 2007-2010, he served
as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. Previously he served as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere; Consul General in Sao Paulo,
Brazil; Charge d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia; and a variety of
senior positions in Latin America. NOVEMBER MEETING: Mr. Chris Farrell, is economics editor for Marketplace Money, American Public
Media nationally syndicated public radio personal finance program. An
award winning journalist, Chris is a regular contributor to Marketplace
Morning Report and chief economics correspondent for American Public
Media's documentary unit, American Radio Works and Minnesota Public
Radio. He writes for Bloomberg Business Week magazine and he has a
weekly column in the Star Tribune. OCTOBER MEETING: SEPTEMBER MEETING __________________________________________________
MAY MEETING Nader Hashemi is assistant professor of International Studies
at the Korbel School, University of Denver. He has previously been affiliated
with UCLA, Northwestern, Harvard, and the University of Waterloo. A prolific
writer, Dr. Hashemi has published articles and books on Islamic affairs, Iran,
and Middle Eastern politics. His most recent book is Islam, Secularism, and
Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies, Oxford
University Press, 2009. He is a coeditor of The People Reloaded: The Green
Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (Melville House, 2011). APRIL MEETING Jay Davis is President of the Hertz Foundation, which
funds graduate studies in the applied physical sciences and engineering. He
retired in 2002 from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he served
as the first National Security Fellow at the Center for Global Security
Research. For the three years prior to rejoining Livermore in July of 2001, he
served as the founding Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the
United States Department of Defense.
MARCH MEETING Michael Cotter is president and publisher of American
Diplomacy Publishers, which operates an online journal on US diplomacy. He served
as U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan from 1995 to 1998, following a stint as
Deputy Chief of Mission in Santiago, Chile during the early 1990s. He entered
the Foreign Service in 1968 and saw service in Vietnam from 1970 to 1973. He has
also served in several Latin American posts, Turkey during the early 1980s, and
Zaire in the late 1980s. During Gulf War I he was Director of the Office of
Defense Relations and Security Assistance at State. Amb. Cotter holds a BS in
Foreign Service degree from Georgetown, a JD from the University of Michigan,
and an MA in Latin America from Stanford. FEBRUARY MEETING Kevin R. McCarthy is a Homeland and National Security
practitioner experienced in transportation security and operations, critical
infrastructure protection and resiliency. He serves as a consultant to the
Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Institute; is a member of
The World Bank, Aviation Safety & Security Working Group; and a founding
member of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Directed Energy Task Force's Laser
Eye Protection Group. Heritage Foundation lists him as a contributor to the
report, Maritime Security: Fighting Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Beyond, June
2009.
JANUARY MEETING Ken Jensen was the first Executive Director of the
American Committees. Over his fifteen-year leadership, ACFR has become a major
presence in the foreign policy community. He continues to
edit and publish the ACFR Newsgroup, an occasional compilation of policy opinion
available to all ACFR members. NOVEMBER MEETING Jere Van Dyk was the first American journalist
to enter Afghanistan and work with the resistance forces, in the early
1980s. In the process, he studied Afghan culture, began learning
Pashto, and came to know many central Salafist Islamic radicals,
including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Jalaluddin Haqqani. He later wrote a
series of articles for the New York Times that helped awaken the
American press and public to the Afghan struggle against the Soviet
Union, work that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. 2nd OCTOBER MEETING David Shambaugh is
Director of the China Policy Program, Elliott School of International Affairs,
The George Washington University. He is recognized internationally as an
authority on contemporary Chinese affairs and the international politics and
security of the Asia-Pacific region. He is a widely published author, including
China’s Communist Party: Atrophy
and Adaptation; American and European Relations with China; and
The International Relations of Asia
(all published in 2008). ----------------------- 1st OCTOBER MEETING Husain
Haqqani is
Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC. A trusted advisor of former Pakistani Prime
Minister, Ms Benazir Bhutto, Ambassador Haqqani is a former Director of the
Center for International Relations at Boston University. He is also the
Co-Chair of the Hudson Institute's Project on the Future of the Muslim World
and editor of the journal Current
Trends in Islamist Thought. ----------------------- SEPTEMBER MEETING Walter L. Cutler is the Chair of
the NCIV Advisory Council, which he joined in 2004. Ambassador Cutler served as
President of Meridian International Center from 1989 to 2006, and he now serves
as President Emeritus. Prior to this position, Ambassador Cutler served as a
career diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. He served twice as Ambassador to
Saudi Arabia and as Ambassador to Tunisia and Zaire. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Ambassador
Cutler holds an M.A. from The Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The American Committees on
Foreign Relations, The American Academy of Diplomacy, The Washington Institute
of Foreign Affairs, The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, and
The Middle East Institute. __________________________________________________
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Lamont Colucci teaches at Ripon college, where
he is
coordinator for the National Security Studies program. A former foreign
service
officer, Colucci has focused on the Bush Doctrine and US security policy
since
9/11. He recently published a book entitled Crusading Realism: The
Bush Doctrine and American Core Values After
9/11, and is now a contributing author to
The Day That
Changed Everything: Looking at the Impact of 9/11 at the End of
the Decade. Dr.
Colucci
has degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a doctorate in
politics from the University of London. He contributes to the
Washington Times and
The Independent. ----------------------- Date: Thursday, April
22, 2010 John Todd Stewart is a 36-year veteran of the
U.S. Foreign
Service
with assignments in eastern and western Europe, the Caribbean Basin,
Canada, and
Washington, DC. Having served in Moscow in the 1970's, he was appointed
in 1995
as ambassador to Moldova, a former Soviet republic. That assignment
followed
tours as deputy and acting ambassador in Jamaica, Costa Rica (for which
he
received the President's Meritorious Service Award), and Canada. An
economic
specialist earlier in his career, he served after retirement as Deputy
Director
of the Institute for International Economics (now the Peterson
Institute), a
world-renowned Washington think tank. Stewart is a graduate of Stanford
University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University. ----------------------- Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Walter C. Minnick is the U.S. Representative
from the Idaho First
Congressional District. He serves on the House Agriculture Committee and
the
House Financial Services Committee. Prior to his election to Congress,
Walt
served fifteen years as CEO of Trus Joist, headquartered in Boise, and
then
founded Summerwinds, a very successful retail nursery chain. ----------------------- Date: Friday,
February 26, 2010 Michael
McCune is Executive Vice-President of The China Business Network, an
online media
company that serves individuals engaged in China market activities. Mr.
McCune launched his first China venture
in Shanghai in 1994 when he founded a company specializing in custom
performance data on China’s retail sector.
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Richard
Slaughter is an economic
and public policy consultant, Director of the Boise Committee on Foreign
Relations, and a co-founder and Vice-President of the American Committees on
Foreign Relations. His major focus is on institutional adaptation to climate
variability and change, with the University of Washington. He has been
consulting privately since 1984, and is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. Don
Reading is
vice-president of Ben Johnson Associates, an economic consulting firm
specializing in utility regulation and resource economics. He formerly taught at
Idaho State University and the University of Hawaii-Hilo, and served as Director
of Policy and Administration for the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (1981 -
1986). He has analyzed such public policy issues as the minimum wage, federal
spending and taxation, and import/export balances. -----------------------
Richard Orth is
Director of Strategic Plans for the Government Services division
of AECOM, a
global architectural, engineering, and consulting firm. During his
26 years of Army
service, he was Sub-Saharan Foreign Area Officer for the U.S.
Army, and
Military Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
His assignments
included Defense Attaché to Ethiopia and Djibouti (2005-2006),
Uganda
(2001-2005), and Rwanda (1996-1998).
He
is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Armed Forces Staff College, and
U.S. Army Command and Staff College, and holds degrees from Bucknell University
and the University of Florida. He speaks French and Kiswahili.
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Charles Davidson is Publisher & CEO
of The
American Interest,
a policy journal
founded in early 2005
with Francis Fukuyama, Eliot Cohen, Josef Joffe, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, and Adam
Garfinkle. The journal seeks to be a non-ideological,
international and
independent platform for political thought that covers both
domestic and foreign
policy. Mr. Davidson holds an
MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He is a significant member of the ACFR
Board of Distinguished
Advisors.
----------------------- Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Matthew F. McHugh represented the 27th and
28th Congressional Districts of
New York in the U.S.
Congress from 1975-1992. He is a former member of the
House Committees on
Intelligence and Foreign Operations; former Chair of the
Arms Control and Foreign
Policy Caucus; and former Counselor to the President
of the World Bank.
----------------------- Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009 Kenton W. Keith is Senior Vice President of the Meridian
International Center in Washington D.C., where his primary responsibility is
management of the professional exchange activities associated with the State
Department's International Visitor Program. He retired from United States
Information Agency in 1997 with the rank of Career Minister. Ambassador Keith is also a
member of the American Committees' Board of Distinguished Advisors. ----------------------- Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009
John S. Habib has extensive
diplomatic, consulting, and academic experience in
the Arab world. His
foreign service career included assignments to Cairo, Riyadh,
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,
Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. He helped
establish the American
Embassy in Doha, and was its first resident Consul. Academically, he served as Collegiate
Professor for the
University of Maryland college in Heidelberg for fifteen years,
and as visiting
professor at the University of Washington and Al-Akhawayn
University in Ifrane,
Morocco. He is currently establishing Centers for American
Studies in Islamic and
Arab countries. __________________________________________________
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2009
Richard L. Millett, a Senior Fellow at the North-South
Center, previously held the Oppenheimer Chair of Modern Warfighting Strategy
at the U.S. Marine Corps University. He is Professor Emeritus of History at
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He is a member
of the Board of the American Committees on Foreign Relations, and Senior
Advisor for Latin America to Political Risk Services. ----------------------- Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Mickey East is Professor Emeritus of International
Affairs at The George
Washington University, and formerly Dean of the Elliott School of
International
Affairs. He has served as President of the International Studies
Association and
was Senior Fellow at the Strategic Concepts Development Center of the
US
Department of Defense. ----------------------- Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Gustavo
Coronel is an international energy and public policy consultant, based
in Washington, DC. Following a career in petroleum geology with Shell
Group, Phillips, and Petroleos de Venezuela, for the past twenty years he has
served in several executive, public policy, and consulting capacities,
including service as Chief Operating Officer of the Venezuelan state oil
conglomerate, head of Hydrocarbon Projects Evaluation for the Inter-American
Development Bank, and consulting with Arthur D. Little & Co. ----------------------- Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009 Speaker: Mr. Peter F. Schaefer Topic: Preventing future failed states: private property, law, and economic development Peter Schaefer is the founder and CEO of
GlobalLand Group LLC, a firm organized to provide law-based property
rights for poor informal property holders in the third world. He has
been an advisor to the Department of Defense on nation-building, and an
independent consultant on business and economic development in Asia. Richard Slaughter is an international economic
and political consultant, and president of the Boise Committee. He was
formerly Chief Economist of the State of Idaho and Director of the
Martin Institute at the University of Idaho. ----------------------- Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Watson Topic: What's Burning? Immediate International Priorities on 20 January 2009 ----------------------- Date: Monday, December 8, 2008 Alan Zelicoff is a physician (Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, 1983) and physicist, whose interests include risk and hazard analysis in hospital systems and office-based practice, and in technologies for improving the responsiveness of public health offices and countering biological weapons terrorism. ----------------------- Date: Monday, October 20, 2008 John F. Maisto recently retired as US Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), in which capacity he served from July 2003 to December 2006. ----------------------- Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008 Siti Syamsiyatun is a lecturer and activist currently serving as Executive Director of Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) in Yogyakarta. ----------------------- Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008 __________________________________________________
Date: Monday, May 5, 2008 Thomas Bagger is political counselor at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. ------------------------- Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Arthur I. Cyr is the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business, and Director of the Clausen Center for World Business, at Carthage College in Kenosha Wisconsin. ------------------------- Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 ------------------------- Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 ------------------------- Date: Monday, November 12, 2007 Kambiz Tavana is Deputy News Director of Radio Farda, based in Prague, Czech Republic. ------------------------- Date: Monday, October 8, 2007 New paragraph | ||
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