PRE-CONFERENCE OPERATIONS WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Staff Workshops (special registration required)
                          Staff Workshop Agenda

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE DINNER
7:00 – 8:00  PM    Reception for Benefactors and Chairman’s Circle members (special fee required)
8:00 – 10:00 PM    Chairman’s Circle Dinner: Congressman Lee Hamilton and Secretary James Baker 
                          (dinner for Mr. Baker on October 8th in Grand Rapids Michigan)
                          (special fee required)
                         
MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
2:00 – 6:00 PM     Registration for General Participants Open

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7
8:00 AM               Registration for General Participants Open
8:00 – 9:00 AM     International Trade Breakfast (special fee required)
                          Larry Burton, Executive Director, Business Roundtable       
8:00 – 9:00 AM     Student Breakfast
9:15 AM               Opening of Conference
9:30 – 11:00         Plenary Session:  National and International Public Opinion
                                                  John Zogby, President and CEO, Zogby International
11:15 – 12:30       Panel Discussion: Advice for the Next President
                                                  Zbigniew Brzezinski, CSIS Counselor and Trustee

                                                  Dr. Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

12:45 – 2:00 PM    Keynote Luncheon Speech: Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico
2:30 – 3:45 PM     Ambassadorial Roundtables
4:00 – 5:15 PM     Panel Discussion: The Future of Diplomacy
                                                Amb. Ronald Neumann, President, American Academy of Diplomacy
                                                Amb. Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group
6:00 PM               Buses Leave for Embassy Receptions
6:30 PM               Embassy Receptions

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8
9:00 – 10:15 AM    Panel Discussion:  Media: The Next President and Foreign Policy
                                                  (off site at the National Press Club)
                                                   Barbara Slavin, USA Today
                                                   Jeffrey Bartholet, Newsweek
                                                   Christopher Isham, CBS News
                                                   Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times
                                                   Jerry Seib, The Wall Street Journal

10:30 -11:45 AM    Discussion Groups and Workshops
12:15 – 2:00 PM    Keynote Luncheon Speech: James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank
2:30 – 3:45 PM      Panel Discussion: Iraq & Beyond: The Way Ahead for the Commander-in-Chief
                                                  Gen. Barry McCaffrey (US Army Ret.)
                                                  Gen. John Keane (US Army Ret.)
4:15 – 5:30 PM      Panel Discussion: The 1st 100 Days of the Next President’s Foreign Policy Agenda
                                                  Gleaves Whitney, Director Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies
                                                  Thomas Mann, Senior Fellow, Governing Studies, The Brookings Institution

                                                  Dr. Lee Edwards, Distinguished Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
                                                  Norm Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
7:00 PM                Cash Bar Opens      
7:30 PM                Closing Banquet

                                                  former Senator Gary Hart (D-CO)
                                                  Amb. James R. Jones, Chairman, World Affairs Councils of America
                                                  Barbara Propes, President, World Affairs Councils of America
                                                  Noel Lateef, President & CEO, Foreign Policy Association
                                                  Presentation of President’s Awards for Council Excellence


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9
9:00 – 10:00 AM    National Membership Meeting
10:30 AM              National Board Meeting
12:30 PM              Luncheon for National Board
3:00  PM               End of Board Meeting