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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 __________________________________________________
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 | ||
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