A panel discussion on student leadership with Columbia University students moderated by President Lee C. Bollinger.

This program features a discussion with Dr. Y.V. Reddy, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University.

President Lee C. Bollinger hosts a panel discussion with Columbia University's distinguished alumnus, David Rothkopf (Columbia College '77), on the topic of his provocative new book, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia, delivers a keynote address and participates in a question and answer session moderated by Myron L. Cohen, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. This event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Adviser of the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh delivers a keynote address and participates in a question and answer session moderated by Vidya J. Dehejia, Director of the Southern Asian Institute.

 

Presidency Chairman, Željko Komšić, delivers a keynote address and participates in a question and answer session moderated by Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Director of the Harriman Institute. This event is co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute.

President Lee C. Bollinger moderates a discussion between President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and President Mikheil Saakashvili. This event is co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute.

 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University the guiding premise of the series is that the study of improvisation can present a new animating paradigm for scholarly inquiry in the humanities, arts and the social, political and natural sciences.

President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet delivers a keynote address and participates in a question and answer session moderated by John H. Coatsworth, Acting Dean, School of International and Public Affairs. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran delivers a keynote address and participates in a question and answer session moderated by John H. Coatsworth, Acting Dean, School of International and Public Affairs.

 

Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi delivers a keynote address and participates in a question and answer session with the audience with moderator, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, President of Turkmenistan, delivers a keynote address and participates in a question and answer session with the audience. Co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute.