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PAST IRC SPEAKERS

 

   

Former Prime Minister of Denmark Jons Otto Krag

Former Prime Minister of Nepal Najendra Presad Rijal

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Sir Wallace Rowling

Eleanor Roosevelt, Chairperson U.S. Human Rights Commission

Deputy Prime Minister of Quebec Jacques-Yvan Moren

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Under Secretary of State Joseph Sisco

Former Chief Justice, Federal Constitutional Court, Federal Republic of Germany Ernst Benda

Education Minister of Liberia J. Bernard Blamo

Director of USIA Charles Z. Wick

Former Under Secretary of State U. Alexis Johnson

Under Secretary of State Michael H. Armacost

Former Foreign Minister of Nigeria Ibrahim A. Gambari

Former Foreign Minister of Malta Alex Sceberras-Trigona

Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Shinsaku Hogen

Secretary General, The European Parliament Hans Nord

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

Former Secretary of State and Commanding General NATO Alexander Haig, Jr.

Secretary of Defense Harold Brown

Former Attorney General and Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson

 

Henry Kissinger Speaks to IRC Members

 

 

Foreign Minister of Cambodia Koun Wick

Under Secretary of State Eugene Rostow

Chief Advisor on Eastern European Affairs to the Secretary General of NATO Christopher Donnelly

Former Under Secretary of State Walter Stoessel

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Fred Ikle

Under Secretary General of the United Nations Davidson Nicol

Under Secretary General of the United Ntions Bradford Morse

Vice President of the World Bank William Clark

Under Secretary of State for Disarmament of Sweden Inga Thorrson

 

 

 

 

 

Ambassador of Australia to the U.S. Sir Nicholas Parkinson

Ambassador of Belgium to the U.S. J. Raoul Schumaker

Ambassador of Britain to the U.S. Sir Oliver Wright

Ambassador of Britain to the U.S. Sir Christopher Meyer

Ambassador of Britain to the U.S. Sir Antony Acland

Ambassador of Britain to the U.S. Peter Jay

Ambassador of Britain to the U.N. Ivor Richard

Ambassador of Britain to the U.N. Lord Caradon

Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to the U.S. Rita Klimora

Ambassador of Denmark to the U.S. Henrik Kaufman

Ambassador of El Salvador to the U.S. Ernesto Rivas-Gallant

Ambassador of Finland to the U.S. Olavi Munkki

Ambassador of France to the U.S. Bernard Vernier-Palliez

Ambassador of the German Federal Republic to the U.S. Berndt Von Staden

Ambassador of Greece to the U.S. George Melas

Ambassador of India to the U.S. L.K. Jha

Ambassador of India to the U.S. T.N. Kaul

Ambassador of India Siddhartha Shankar-Ray

Ambassador of Iran to the U.S. Hushang Ansary

Ambassador of Israel to France Walter Eytan

Ambassador of Italy to the U.S. Rinaldo Petrignani

Ambassador of Japan to the U.S. Noburo Matsunaga

Ambassador of Japan to the U.S. Fumihiko Togo

Ambassador of Japan to the U.S. Yoshio Okawara

Ambassador of Japan to the U.S. Kunihiko Saito

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Park Kun-Woo

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Yang Sung-Chul

Ambassador of Lesotho the the U.S. Cecilla N. Tau

Ambassador of Liberia to the U.S. S. Edward Peal

Ambassador of Liberia to the U.S. Francis A.W. Dennis

Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to NATO Guy de Muyser

Ambassador of the Netherlands to the U.S. Jan Hendrik Lubbers

Ambassador of the Netherlands to the U.S. J.H. Van Roijen

Ambassador of New Zealand to the U.S. Denis McLean

Ambassador of Panama to the U.S. Dominador Kaiser Bazar

Ambassador of Peru to the U.S. Celso Pastor

Ambassador of Poland to the U.S. Jan Kinast

Ambassador of Singapore to the U.S. S.R. Nathan

Ambassador of South Africa to the U.S. Donald B. Sole

Ambassador of South Korea YANG Sung-chul

Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the U.S. Yuri Dubinin

Permanent Representative of Swaziland to the United Nations M.N. Dlamini

Ambassador of Thailand to the U.S. Nitya Pibilsonggram

Ambassador of Turkey to the U.S. Melih Esenbel

Ambassador of Turkey to the U.S. Nuzhet Kandemir

Ambassador of Viet Nam to the U.S. Vu Van Thai

Ambassador of Yugoslavia to the U.S. Dimce Belovski

European Communities Head of Delegation Sir Roy Denmen

European Communities Head of Delegation Fernand Spaak

European Communities Head of Delegation Ambassador Andreas Van Agt

European Communities Deputy Head of Delegation Corrado Pirzio-Biroli

Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development J. Brian Atwood

Representative, Coordination Council for North American Affairs (Taiwan) Frederick F. Chien

Representative, U.S. Office of Taipei Economic and Cultural Relations Dr. Stephen Chen

Former U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and Uganda Thomas Melady

Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Eugenia Anderson

Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolphus Dubs

Former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and Assistant Secretary of State Marshall Green

U.S. Ambassador to Korea James Laney

U.S. Ambassador to Korea Thomas Hubbard

U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia John Menzies

U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Thomas C. Hubbard

Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Richard T. Davies

Former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Christoper Van Hollen

Former U.S. Ambassador to Botswana Howard Jeter

U.S.  Ambassador to Switzerland True Davis

Special Presidential Emissary to the Middle East Morris Draper

U.S. Ambassador to Geneva Arms Negotiations Richard Burt

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Charles H. Price II

Former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal Dr. Cynthia Shepard Perry

Former U.S. Ambassador to Peru Anthony C.E. Quainton

Chairman U.S. Delegation, Strategic Arms Reducation Talks Ambassador Edward L. Rowny

Vice President National Defense University Ambassador L. Bruce Laingen

Former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Emory C. Swank

Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gelbard

Assistant Secretary of State C. David Welch

Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State and later U.S.Ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner

U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack F. Matlock

Former Director of Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Ambassador Ralph Earle II

Director of the Peace Corps Lorette Miller Ruppe

Director of the Peace Corps Carol Bellamy

Assistant Secretary of State Marshall Greene

Former Assistant Secretary of State Hodding Carter, III

Former Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy

Former Vice President, European Commission Henning Christophersen

Chairman, Export-Import Bank Martin Kamarck

Former U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait W. Nathaniel Howell

Director, Office of Environmental and Natural Resources, U.S. Agency for International Development Willard Johnson

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark

Chairman, Group of Economic Advisors to the President of Russia Igor Vasilievitch Nit

President, The Atlantic Council David Acheson

Senator Robert Dole

Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum

Senator John Danforth

Senator Thomas Eagleton

Senator James Pearson

Senator Gale McGee

Congressman Jim Leach

Congressman Richard Bolling

Former Congressman and Chief of Protocol James W. Symington

 

 

Former President ABC News Elmer W. Lower

Former Editor of The Spectator (London) Brian Inglis

Washington Week in Review Moderator Paul Duke

McNeil/Lehrer Newshour co-host Jim Lehrer

Time Magazine Senior Correspondent William Atkins McWhirter

Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Correspondent Donald H. Shannon

Wall Street Journal National Security Correspondent John Walcott

Asahi Shimbun Senior Advisor Yukio Matsuyama

Foreign Affairs Editor William G. Hyland

Author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Rhodes

Deputy Managing Editor, Wall Street Journal, Byron Calame

Tanjug (Belgrade) Washington Correspondent Fred Emery

ARD German TV Washington Correspondent Klaus Detlef Kleber

National Public Radio President Delano Lewis

Scottish Television Senior Journalist Robert Cudihy

Handelsblatt (Dusseldorf) International Correspondent Klaus C. Engelen

U.S. News and World Report Consulting Editor Joseph Fromm

U.S. News and World Report Political Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh

Former Editor Fortune and Money magazines Marshall Loeb

The Sunday Times (London) Defense Correspondent James Adams

Le Monde (Paris) Middle East Correspondent Eric Rouleau

Mainishi Shimbun (Tokyo) Senior Correspondent Akiyki Konishi

The Observer (London) European Correspondent David Haworth

NBC News Correspondent David Burrington

Editor, International Editions, Newsweek, Robert C. Christopher

Commentator, World Press, Public Television, Elizabeth Farnsworth

CBS News Producer Irving Drasnin

NBC News Correspondent and Commentator Edward P. Morgan

NBC News Correspondent Pauline Frederick

The Toronto Star Asia Bureau Chief Mark Gayn

Former NBC News Correspondent Robert Goralski

NBC News Correspondent Herbert Kaplow

NBC News Correspondent Albert Rosenfield

NBC News Correspondent Ray Scherer

The London Observer Columnist Katherine Whitehorn

NOVA Associate Editor The Baroness Birk

Time, Inc. Senior Writer-at-Large James Steele

Associated Press General Executive John O. Koehler

Former CBS Morning News Co-Anchor Bill Kurtis

Gersher Editor and Publisher Zlad Abu Zayyad

Syndicated Columnist Georgie Anne Geyer

Time Warner Editor in Chief Jason McManus

Author and Former White House Staff Member Roger Morris

Former U.S. Correspondent and N.Y. Bureau Chief, Soviet National TV and Radio Vladmir Zvyagin

 

 

Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.

Chairman of the Council, The International Institute of Strategic Studies Robert F. Ellsworth

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence J. Korb

Former Commanding General of NATO Andrew Goodpaster

Air Force Chief of Staff General Larry D. Welch

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Carlisle A.H. Trost

Admiral William J. Flanagan, Jr., Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet

Marine Corps Chief of Staff General Alfred M. Gray, Jr.

Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command Lt. Gen. Robert C. Kingston

Commander, Naval Air Forces, Atlantic Fleet, Vice Admiral George E.R. Kinnar II

 

 

Former Under Secretary of the Air Force Townsend Hoopes

Chairman of the Board for National Problems of Defense of Belgium Major General Robert Close

Former Chief of Staff of Allied Forces in Southern Europe Lt. General James M. Gavin

Commander in Chief, Pacific Admiral Robert Long

Army Chief of Staff General Carl E. Vuono

Army Chief of Staff General Gordon R. Sullivan

 

 


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