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Members Events

The Members Events team run events specifically for members. These events provide a forum where world leaders, policy-makers and opinion formers can be heard and their views discussed in an impartial environment. The programme of meetings aims to cover current issues in international affairs as they arise and develop.

Members events also include Annual Lectures (including the Whitehead Lecture, Dillon Lecture and Martin Wight Memorial Lecture) and The Annual Members' Conference.

Members' events Members events are colour-coded green on the main calendar of events.

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EVENTS KEY:

  • Members event Members event - advance registration of members and their guests required for all events and will not be acknowledged unless otherwise stated.
  • Members event
    Wednesday 8 February 2012 13:00 - 14:00
    The Global Economic, Financial and Political Outlook for 2012

    Roger Altman, Founder and Chairman of Evercore Partners and United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1993-95)
    Chair: Sir John Gieve KCB, Senior Adviser, GLG and Deputy Governer, Bank of England (2006-09) 
  • Members event
    Friday 17 February 2012 13:00 - 14:00
    How Will the Withdrawal of International Forces Affect Afghanistan?

    Fawzia Koofi, Member of Parliament, Afghanistan
    Chair: Cherie Booth QC, Matrix Chambers  
  • Members event
    Monday 20 February 2012 17:30 - 18:30
    Angola’s External Relations in Africa

    HE Georges Rebelo Chikoti, Minister for External Relations, Angola
    Chair: Alex Vines, Research Director, Regional and Security Studies; and Head, Africa Programme, Chatham House
  • Members event
    Wednesday 22 February 2012 13:00 - 14:00
    Pakistan in a Changing Regional and Global Environment

    HE Hina Rabbani Khar, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pakistan
    Chair: Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House 
  • Members event
    Thursday 23 February 2012 19:00 - 20:00
    Beyond Borders: Digital Activism in a Globalized World
    Under 35s Forum

    Tom Cheshire, Associate Editor, Wired UK
    Ben Hammersley, Prime Minister's Ambassador to TechCity, Office of the Prime Minister, UK
    Heather Brooke, Author, The Revolution will be Digitised
    Chair: Dave Clemente, International Security Programme, Chatham House 
  • Members event
    Tuesday 28 February 2012 13:00 - 14:00
    An International Climate Treaty: Is it Worth Fighting for?

    Yvo de Boer, Special Global Advisor on Climate Change and Sustainability, KPMG; and former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2006-2010)
    Chair: Michael Jacobs, Visiting Professor, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics; and former Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister (2004-10) 
  • Members event
    Tuesday 28 February 2012 17:30 - 18:30
    Is there a Future Role for Gold in the International Monetary System?

    Dr Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group, Head of Global Research, Standard Chartered 
    Professor Catherine Schenk, Professor of International Economic History, University of Glasgow
    Michael Lewis, Managing Director, Global Head of Commodities Research, Deutsche Bank
  • Members event
    Wednesday 29 February 2012 13:00 - 14:00
    Putin Again: Implications for Russia and the West

    James Nixey, Manager and Research Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
    Dr Lilia Shevtsova, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
    Sir Andrew Wood, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
    Professor Philip Hanson, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
    Chair: Alan Philps, Editor, The World Today, Chatham House 
  • Members event
    Wednesday 29 February 2012 18:00 - 19:30
    Chatham House Debate: Does Aid Work?

    Dr Alison Evans, Director, Overseas Development Institute 
    Karin Christiansen, Director, Publish What You Fund
    Sir Edward Clay KCMG, British High Commissioner to Uganda (1993-97), Cyprus (1999-2001) and Kenya (2001-05)
    Captain Simon Oxley MBE, Operations Officer, Corps of Royal Engineers

    Chair: Sir John Holmes GCVO KBE CMG, Director, Ditchley Foundation; and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations (2007-10)
  • Members event
    Thursday 8 March 2012 18:00 - 19:00
    From Voting to Violence? New Evidence on Far Right Supporters

    Dr Matthew Goodwin. Associate Fellow, Europe Programme, Chatham House
    Jon Cruddas MP, Member of Parliament for Dagenham and Rainham
    Professor Jocelyn Evans, Salford University
    Nick Lowles, Hope Not Hate Campaign
  • Members event
    Friday 9 March 2012 13:30 - 14:30
    The Prospects and Limits of Women's Mobilization in Saudi Arabia

    Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London
  • Members event
    Tuesday 13 March 2012 18:00 - 19:00
    A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

    Professor David Scheffer, Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law; US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001)
    Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG, Associate Fellow, International Law, Chatham House 
  • Members event
    Thursday 15 March 2012 19:00 - 20:00
    The Future of Globalization

    Parag Khanna, Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, Senior Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS
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