Monday in Washington April 10, 2017

PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE HONORABLE ALAINA B. TEPLITZ. 4/10, 11:00am. Sponsor: South Asia Business Initiative, US Chamber of Commerce. Speaker: Hon. Alaina B. Teplitz, US Ambassador to Nepal. Location: US Chamber of Commerce, 1615 H St., NW, Amway Room.

DEBATING THE MERITS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S NEW TRAVEL, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE BAN. 4/10, 11:00am-12:30pm. Sponsor: SAIS, Johns Hopkins. Speakers: Danielle Pletka, Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, AEI;  George Biddle, Chairman, World Connect, Former Executive Vice President, International Rescue Committee; Alex Aleinikoff, Director, Zolberg Institute of Migration and Mobility, New School; James Jay Carafano, Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, Heritage; Moderator: Margaret Warner, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, PBS NewsHour.

DOWNSTREAM OIL THEFT: IMPLICATIONS AND NEXT STEPS. 4/10, 12:30pm. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Ian Ralby, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council; John Gannon, Adjunct Professor, Center for Security Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Former Chairman, US National Intelligence Council; Terzah Tippin Poe, Lecturer, Harvard University; Moderator: Amb. Richard Morningstar (Ret.), Founding Director, Chairman, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council, Former Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, US Department of State.

FUELING POPULISM: GLOBALIZATION’S DISCONTENTS IN THE US AND EUROPE. 4/10, 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Uta-Micaela Dürig, CEO, Robert Bosch Stifung; Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings; Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the US; Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, AEI; Constanze Stelzenmüller, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the US and Europe; Moderator: David Wessel, Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies.

IN THE NEWS: BREXIT. 4/10, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University. Speakers: Jeffrey Anderson, Graf Goltz Professor of Government, Director, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Kathleen R. McNamara, Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, School of International Service, American University; Abraham Newman, Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Government Department, Georgetown University.

THE BATTLE OF THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS IN THE AGES OF REAGAN AND TRUMP. 4/10, 4:00pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics. Speaker: Thomas Wilson, Former Senior Counsel, Iran-Contra Defendants.

THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 4/10, 7:00pm. Sponsor: School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Speaker: Gus Speth, Former Administrator, Development Program, UN, Founder, World Resources Institute, Co-Founder, Natural Resources Defense Council, Former Chairman, US Council on Environmental Quality.