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.