May 21, 2020    Livestream Event

FROM PENGUINS TO PLANKTON:

The Dramatic Impacts of Climate Change on the Antarctic

JAMES MCCLINTOCK is Endowed Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. McClintock is author of Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land and an elected fellow of the Explorer's Club. His research, funded by the National Science Foundation, has been featured in National Geographic, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. 

McClintock is an engaging storyteller who has been featured on The Moth, and a spokesperson for The Nature Conservancy's "Can We Talk Climate" campaign.

This IAF online event sponsored by Desmond Liggett Wealth Advisors.

April 16, 2020    Livestream Event

BREXIT IN THE TIME OF COVID-19:

A discussion with NPR's Frank Langfitt

FRANK LANGFITT, joined IAF for its first members event online. Langfitt spoke about the UK's response to COVID-19, the dramatic events surrounding PM Boris Johnson's hospitalization, and the fate of Brexit. 

Langfitt, who previously covered China for NPR, also shared insights on the geopolitical fall-out from the spread of the virus.  He is author of Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of The New China (Hatchette 2019)

CANCELLED

HONG KONG AT A CROSS-ROADS: 

Understanding China's ambitions beyond the mainland

MICHAEL C. DAVIS, is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Hong Kong. Davis acts as special adviser to the 14th Dalai Lama and is the author of Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong and Human Rights and Chinese Values.

February 20, 2020

#FULLSTOP: 

Protecting Children and Ending Human Trafficking in the 21st Century

EIRLIANI ABDUL RAHMAN, a former Singaporean diplomat, is Executive Director of YAKIN (Youth, Adult survivors & Kin in Need), author of Survivors: Breaking the Silence on Child Sex Abuse, and a member of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council.

November 21, 2019

ENGAGING FOR GOOD: 

Can one individual volunteer change the world?

CARRIE HESSLER-RADELET, President and CEO of Project Concern International, former Director of the US Peace Corps.  Ms Hessler-Radelet returned to her native Michigan to share her insights and inspirations.

October 17, 2019

ASIA RISING: 

Will Japan remain America's "unsinkable aircraft carrier"?

AMBASSADOR JAMES ZUMWALT, CEO, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, former Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asia Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Tokyo.

September 19, 2019

AUTOCRATS and REVOLUTIONS: 

Lessons learned from the Arab Uprisings

AMBASSADOR HATEM ATALLAH, Career diplomat with over 35 years of experience, including having served as Tunisian ambassador to the US, UK and South Africa; former Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation for Dialogue Between Cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean Region.