Past Boe Forum Speakers

March 31, 2022
Michael A. McFaul
U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Address: "Russia and the Future of Europe"

March 15, 2021
Robert C. Green
Physician-scientist and professor of medicine (genetics)

Jamie Metzl
Futurist and author

Address: "Are We Ready? The Science, Ethics, and Geopolitics of Genetic Engineering and Preventive Genomics"

March 19, 2019
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists

Address: "Power, the Press and the Presidency"

March 20, 2018
Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Secretary of State

Address: "America’s National Security and the World"

March 20, 2017
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Award-winning astrophysicist and author
Host and narrator of FOX's "Cosmos"

Address: "Science and Discovery"

March 9, 2016
IN MEMORIAM: Antonin Scalia
(March 11, 1936 - February 13, 2016)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Address: "Whether the U.S. Constitution is a Living Document”

October 28, 2014
Robbie Bach
Microsoft Executive

Address: "Privacy at Risk: Challenges to Protecting Personal Identity and Data"

November 4, 2013
Jon Huntsman
Governor of Utah
U.S. Ambassador to China and Singapore

Address: "Geopolitics of China and the U.S."

November 8, 2012
Jared Cohen
Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Director of Google Ideas

Address: "United States Foreign Policy and the Technological Revolution"

November 9, 2011
Mary Robinson
President of Ireland

Address: "World Hunger and Poverty"

November 4, 2010
Madeleine K. Albright
U.S. Secretary of State

Address: "Geopolitics and the Implications for Business and Investing Around the World"

October 2, 2009
Pervez Musharraf
President of Pakistan

Address: "Internal and External Dynamics of Pakistan"

November 24, 2008
Sandra Day O'Connor
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Address: "Reflections for the United States Supreme Court"

November 1, 2007
Vicente Fox and Marta Fox
President and First Lady of Mexico

Mrs. Fox's Address: "The Role of women in the New Millennium"
President Fox's Address: "Bringing the New Economy to Latin America"

January 23, 2007
Al Gore
Vice President of the United States

Address: "Thinking Green: Economic Strategies for the 21st Century"

April 6, 2006
L. Paul Bremer
Presidential Envoy to Iraq

Address: "Remarks by L. Paul Bremer"

March 18, 2004
Rudy Giuliani
Mayor of New York City

Address: "The Principles of Leadership"

May 12, 2003
Susan Dentzer
PBS News Hour Correspondent

Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Ms. Dentzer's Address: "Meeting the Challenge of Special Interest Groups in the Health-Care Field"
Mr. Gingrich's Address: "Saving Lives and Saving Money"

May 9, 2001
Noor Al-Hussein
Queen of Jordan

Address: "Remarks" [on globalization and its effect on women and children]

October 11, 1999
Desmond Tutu
Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa
1984 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Address: "Peace and Justice in South Africa: The Power of Spiritual Values"

November 4, 1998
Barbara Bush
First Lady of the United States

Address: "Faith, Family, and Friends"

May 1, 1998
John Major
Prime Minister of Great Britain

Address: "Into the Next Millennium"

October 21, 1996
Mikhail Gorbachev
President of the Soviet Union

Address: "Remarks by Mikhail Gorbachev"

December 13, 1995
George H. W. Bush
President of the United States

Address: "Remarks by the Honorable George Bush"

March 29, 1995
General Colin Powell
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Address: "The Management of Crisis and Change"

The views expressed at the Boe Forum on Public Affairs are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the Center for Western Studies or Augustana University.