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Members Events

The Members Events Department runs meetings and events specifically for members. It provides a forum where world leaders, policy-makers and opinion formers can be heard and their views discussed in an impartial environment. The programme of meetings aims to cover current issues in international affairs as they arise and develop.

Members events also include The Chatham House Annual Conference, Annual Lectures (including the Whitehead Lecture, Dillon Lecture and tri-annual Martin Wight Memorial Lecture) and the US Election Series.

Members events are colour-coded green on the main calendar of events. A full list of forthcoming events is provided below.

Monday 24 November 2008 13:30 to 14:30
Anti-Americanism in the Age of Obama
Justin Webb, North America Editor, BBC; author, Have a Nice Day - How I Stopped Sneering and Learned to Love America

Wednesday 26 November 2008 13:30 to 14:30
Intimate Enemies: Osama Bin Laden's Vision of the West
Faisal Devji, Associate Professor, New School University, New York, and author, The Terrorist in Search of Humanity

Wednesday 26 November 2008 17:30 to 18:30
The Age of Ageing: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and our World
George Magnus, Senior Economic Advisor, UBS Investment Bank

Monday 1 December 2008 13:30 to 17:30
The Essential Role of Women in Post-Conflict Nation Building
Lord Ashdown of Norton-Sub-Hamdon, Co-President, Chatham House
Zainab Salbi, CEO, President, Women for Women International
Lyse Doucet, News correspondent, Presenter, BBC World News, Council Member, Chatham House
Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Development
Clare Lockhart, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, The Institute for State Effectiveness
Judithe Registre, Director, Policy and Outreach, Women for Women International UK
Nancy Durham, London-based correspondent for CBC Television and Radio
Sweeta Noori, Afghanistan Director, Women for Women International
Professor Naila Kabeer, Research Fellow, Team Leader, Institute of Development
Dr Deniz Kandiyoti, Professor of Gender and Development, School of Oriental and African Studies

Tuesday 2 December 2008 13:30 to 14:30
Barack Obama and the Difficult Task Ahead in the Middle East
Abdel Bari Atwan, Editor-in-chief, al-Quds al-Arabi

Tuesday 2 December 2008 17:30 to 18:30
Toughness as Tactics? Assessing Russia's Approach to International Affairs
Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director, Carnegie Moscow Center and Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment

Wednesday 3 December 2008 13:30 to 14:30
POSTPONED - Pakistan's Path to Democracy
Imran Khan, Chairman, Tehreek-e-Insaf

Monday 8 December 2008 17:30 to 18:30
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Sixty Years On
Professor Francesca Klug, Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics

Monday 15 December 2008 17:30 to 18:30
Shifting Fortunes in Financial Markets: The Fall of the West, the Rise of the Gulf - What Next in 2009?
Speakers include:
Ahmet Akarli, Goldman Sachs
John Nugée, State Street Global Advisors
Paola Subacchi, Research Director, International Economics, Chatham House

Wednesday 17 December 2008 17:30 to 18:30
How Can the West Most Effectively Engage with Iran?

Sir Richard Dalton, Editor, forthcoming Chatham House Report, Iran: Meeting the Policy Challenges; UK Ambassador to Tehran (2002-06)

Contributors to the report who will respond in the discussion include:
Professor Ali Ansari, Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews