Join fellow World Affairs Council members in conversation over dinner on the issues impacting our world. Connect and engage with others, share your thoughts, and explore how we can secure our global future. Topic: The End of USAID? This week, President Trump and Elon Musk moved to effectively shut down USAID, the U.S. global aid […]
Today, healthcare, education, and jobs are all online. Where does that leave the billions of people around the world without internet access? In Digitally Invisible: How the Internet is Creating the New Underclass, author Nicol Turner Lee tells stories from across America – including two from Hartford – that highlight the challenges faced by communities […]
When an American is captured abroad, that’s when private hostage negotiators like Mickey Bergman step in to bring them home. Mickey Bergman, two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and CEO of Global Reach, has spent the past decade freeing Americans from the world's most insulated countries. He joins us in Stamford to reveal true stories from […]
South Korea - the global cultural and economic powerhouse - was sent into political crisis when President Yoon Suk-Yeol declared martial law in the middle of the night in December 2024. Since then, the nation has been made to grapple with insurrection, impeachment, and political upheaval. Join us February 26th in conversation with Ambassador Euy […]
