Discover our past events

Please join us for the Foreign Policy Association’s virtual World Leadership Forum Dinner on Thursday, October 8th.  The Foreign Policy Association looks forward to honoring Carlo Messina, Chief Executive Officer of Intesa Sanpaolo SpA; John Waldron, President & Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs; and Penny Pennington, Managing Partner, Edward Jones.  Each honoree will accept the FPA Corporate Social Responsibility Award. […]

John B. Taylor the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution delivers this fall’s Peter G. Peterson Distinguished Lecture on National Security and Fiscal Policy.  Remarks were followed by a question and answer segment with KBW CEO and Foreign Policy […]

The Foreign Policy Association is honored to present a conversation with Major General John Kem the 51st Commandant of the U.S. Army War College and Sarwar Kashmeri, Fellow, FPA. The U.S. Army War College is the Army’s prep-school for selecting its future leaders and one of the country’s most important military institutions.   Their topics will include — […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association on Tuesday, June 30th, for an in-depth analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the economy, education, public health, and geopolitics.   Please register above to recieve any event annoucements.  Registrants will also be provided an event program, agenda, as well as speaker bios.        Foreign Policy Association Responding […]

Please join for a panel conversation on the effect that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on the world order and cooperation in international affairs. The panel will include Noel Lateef, President & CEO of the Foreign Policy Association, Willem Kooyker, Founder and Chairman of Blenheim Capital Management, and Fenwick Huss, Dean of Baruch College’s Zicklin […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association and George Washington University’s Data Governance Hub for a panel discussion on how governments are encouraging competitiveness in artificial intelligence.  The panel will be live on Zoom at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 21st.   Some 32 governments have developed plans, incentives, and policies to stimulate national AI research and […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association and Off The Record for the Elizabeth French Hitchcock Lecture on U.S.-India in an Age of Nationalism. The lecture will be delivered by Amb. Frank Wisner, International Affairs Advisor, Squire Patton Boggs. The event will be hosted on webcast via ZOOM and will start at 1:00 PM. This lecture is only open to FPA Members.  […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association and New York University’s Center for Global Affairs for a discussion on pathways to Cyber Peace.   Peace in cyberspace has, and will likely, continue to remain elusive. Boundaries between malicious and virtuous state and non-state actors are blurred, and contact amongst them is constant. Cyber doom is reinforced daily with […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Volker Türk, Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination at the United Nations, who will talk about the United Nations Global Action Plan for Responding to COVID-19.  This event is hosted in collaboration with UNITAR. If you would like to submit a question, please send your question(s) to [email protected].  Questions can also be […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Joseph S. Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, to talk about his new book, Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump.  Join the livestream of the conversation on Youtube.   If you would like to […]

PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR A LATER DATE. ALL TICKETS WILL BE REFUNDED. Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Professor Anu Bradford, who will deliver a lecture on the topic of her new book, The Brussels Effect. Copies of her book will be available for purchase. For […]

This event has been postponed. We will release information on a new date in the coming weeks.   Please join the Off The Record and Foreign Policy Association for Elisabeth French Hitchcock Lecture on U.S.-India in an Age of Nationalism. The lecture will be delivered by Amb. Frank Wisner, International Affairs Advisor, Squire Patton Boggs. The event will be hosted […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Chief U.S. Economist for Morgan Stanley, Ellen Zentner. In 2020, lower interest rates continue to support the economy. Exports and business investment rise from very low levels due to improvement in global economic conditions. These factors stabilize the slowdown in US growth. Economic policy uncertainty in the […]

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. If you are interested in more FPA events, visit our website at www.fpa.org This year’s Arthur Schlesinger panel will convene four renowned presidential scholars to discuss the reshaping of the executive branch in recent years. Watch as Akhil Reed Amar, Philip Bobbitt, Jonathan Alter, and moderator Stephen […]

The fourth annual speaker series co-hosted by the Foreign Policy Association and the State University of New York Global Engagement Program is pleased to announce Mr. Henk-Jan Brinkman, chief of the Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnerships Branch of the Peacebuilding Support Office in the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, as our speaker. This is a […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association for a talk with Bård Nikolas Vik Steen, Programme Manager at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and author of the new book The Causes of Peace: What We Know Now, who will deliver this year’s annual Andrew Carnegie Distinguished Lecture on Conflict Prevention in Honor of David Hamburg.  The Harvard Club 2 […]

Join the CGA and FPA for a panel examining new approaches to managing carbon, from turning CO2 into commercial products to strategies to capture, store and utilize carbon.  New applications for captured carbon dioxide include fuel production, concrete enrichment, and power generation. Technology and investment decisions matter, and understanding how to create a circular carbon […]

North Korea is arguably the most closed and repressive society in the world. But over the past 25 years, the failures of North Korea’s totalitarian system have created the possibility of internal change. Tens and thousands of North Korean people have fled the country, the vast majority of whom now live in South Korea and support the […]

Please join us at this year’s World Leadership Forum dinner, where the Foreign Policy Association will honor Jeremy Heimans, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Purpose, Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman of S4 Capital, Mark Colodny, Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, and Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics.  Hosted by the Foreign Policy […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Lieutenant General VeraLin “Dash” Jamieson of the United States Air Force, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Cyber Effects Operations. Lieutenant General Jamieson is responsible for all of the Air Force’s intelligence and cyber operations across the globe. She has managed to lead the entirety […]

The Foreign Policy Association is proud to announce the 19th annual World Leadership Forum. Hosted by the Foreign Policy Association and coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly, the World Leadership Forum is one of the foremost public forums on global affairs. Over the years, heads of government and state, executives, investors and policy makers, […]

We are sorry to report the event “A Conversation with Lieutenant General Darryl A. Williams” on Tuesday, September 10th has been cancelled. Unfortunately, General Williams was unable to participate due to unforeseen circumstances. Ticket purchases will be refunded, and please check the FPA calendar for our upcoming World Leadership Forum events.       Please join The […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Beth Ann Bovino, Chief U.S. Economist for S & P Global Ratings Services, as she delivers the Peter G. Peterson Distinguished Lecture on National Security and Fiscal Policy.  3263 Santander 2 2019-08-06 12:32:51 416317

Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming John Lipsky, Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins SAIS, and former First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, as he delivers the Peter G. Peterson Distinguished Lecture on National Security and Fiscal Policy.  3262 Santander 2 2019-08-06 12:19:59 416317

Please join the Foreign Policy Association Annual Dinner as we honor international leaders in education and business.  This year, the Foreign Policy Association will be honoring Olav Njølstad, Director, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Andrew Hamilton, President, New York University, J. Kyle Bass, Founder and Principal, Hayman Capital Management, and Rahmi M. Koç, Vice Chairman, Vehbi Koç Foundation, […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association, in partnership with the Consulate-General of Canada in New York, for a conversation with Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel titled “Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times.” Following the conversation, a reception will be held. Please contact [email protected] for more information on ticket sales. 3234 Consulate General of […]

Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Mr. François Legault, Premier of Quebec, on May 20, 2019. Business attire is required for attendance. Please contact [email protected] for more information on ticket sales. 3229 The St. Regis 3 2019-05-07 18:21:47 416317

Please join the FPA in welcoming Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, who will deliver the final Centennial Lecture, titled “The Sino-American Split and its Consequences.” Ambassador Freeman, who was Assitant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, will be discussing paths forward for the U.S.-China relationship, as well as his own personal experience including […]

Please join The Foreign Policy Association for the Hasib J. Sabbagh Lecture on Diplomacy. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Dr. Dario Gil, Director of IBM Research and will be focused on discussing the topic of “Artificial Intelligence and International Affairs.” The Lecture will be followed by a reception. Jacket and tie is required at the University Club. Those […]

Please join the Off The Record and Foreign Policy Association for Elisabeth French Hitchcock Lecture on Identity and the Rise of Global Populism. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Francis Fukuyama, Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule, Stanford University. The event will be hosted at The New York City […]