Best of 2015: New Podcast Episode
As we trace the ongoing impact of 2015’s emergent global issues in 2016, many stories jump out from speakers featured at World Affairs.
In this episode of our podcast, you’ll hear reflections from 22 experts (including Ban Ki-moon, Thomas Friedman and Christine Fair). Join us for more conversations that matter in 2016: worldaffairs.org/events.
Featuring perspectives from:
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General, United Nations
Full recording: The United Nations at 70: A Conversation with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Janine Zacharia
Former Jerusalem bureau chief, The Washington Post; Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University
Full recording: Israel, Iran and the US: A Complex Triangle
Annie Jacobsen
Investigative journalist and author
Full recording: Inside DARPA: The Pentagon’s Brain
Christine Fair
Assistant Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Full recording: Pakistan, the Taliban and Regional Security
Thomas Friedman
Author and journalist, The New York Times
Full recording: Global Forces Breaking All the Trends
Also featuring:
General Lloyd J. Austin III, Commander, United States Central Command
Cindy Cohn, Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Yves Daccord, Director-General, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Nazila Fathi, journalist, translator and commentator
Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director, California Academy of Sciences
Jason Furman, Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers
Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder, LinkedIn; Partner, Greylock Partners
Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
Joseph Kim, North Korean Defector; author
Nancy Lindborg, President, United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Abbas Milani, Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies, Stanford University
Dr. Vali Nasr, Dean, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Ilya Ponomarev, Member, Russian State Duma
Congressman Adam Schiff, California’s 28th Congressional District
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Alphabet
Chris Woods, investigative journalist and author
Our other short-format podcast episodes are available on Soundcloud .
Originally published at www.worldaffairs.org.