Past Berkley Lectures
2021 • Sec. Chuck Hagel
Former Secretary of Defense (2013-15) and U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1997-2009)
2020 · Dr. Paul Salem
President of the Middle East Institute
2019 · Amb. Paula Dobriansky
Senior Fellow in the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard’s JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
2018 · Kate Charlet
Director of Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
2017 · Evans Revere
Former U.S. Diplomat and former CEO of the Korea Society
2016 · Col. Nicolas Auboin
French Liaison Officer, Combined Arms Center
2015 · Deana Arsenian
Vice President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
2014 · Robert Ford
Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria
2013 · Daniel Markey
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, author of No Exit from Pakistan
Read about his lecture – “Is There Really No Exit From Pakistan?” – Kansas City World Citizen blog
2012 · Charles A. Kupchan
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, author, and professor at Georgetown University
2011 · Gerald Seib
Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal
2010 · George Friedman
Founder and CEO of STRATFOR
2009 · Allison Stanger
Russell Leng Professor of International Politics and Economics and Director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College
2008 · James M. Goldgeier
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations
2007 · Walter Russell Mead
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. foreign policy, Council on Foreign Relations
2006 · Dr. George Rupp
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
2005 · The Honorable Thomas R. Pickering
Former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Nigeria, El Salvador, Israel, United Nations, India, Russia
2004 · The Honorable Lawrence J. Korb
Senior Fellow, American Progress and Senior Advisor, Center for Defense Information
2003 · James Fallows
National Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly
2002 · The Honorable Marc Grossman
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
2001 · The Honorable Princeton N. Lyman
Former U.S. ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
2000 · The Honorable Frank G. Wisner
Vice-Chairman, American International Group
1999 · Hodding Carter III
Journalist, Assistant Secretary of State for Carter Administration
1998 · Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom
1997 · “Mid-Point in the Legacy”
Conference and Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
1996 · The Honorable Jack Matlock, Jr.
Former U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union