Past Events

Two-term Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Council President Ivo Daalder to share his insights into the challenges facing cities in the age of pandemics.

Discover how innovation is changing the way consumers, in the United States and abroad, think about the food system and how new breakthroughs can support a secure, healthy, and prosperous planet.

Sara Menker of Gro Intelligence and Sanjeev Krishnan of S2G Ventures joined Laura Reiley of The Washington Post to discuss the large-scale impacts COVID-19 has had on the global food system.

The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Robert S. Kaplan, joined the Council for an important discussion: what type of monetary policy will the Fed prescribe to insulate the US economy from external risks?

In tandem with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, founder and CEO of Women in the World Tina Brown and the Council’s Ertharin Cousin discussed how women will shape politics in the next decade and beyond.

Members of the Council’s Young Professionals Network join Leonardo Martinez-Diaz from the World Resources Institute to discuss climate resilience in the face of catastrophe.

University of Notre Dame's Victoria Tin-bor Hui and Jeffrey Wasserstrom of the University of California, Irvine, joined the Council to discuss what protests can tell us about the future of Hong Kong.

Columbia Law School's Anu Bradford and Brookings' James Kirchick, holding opposing views, discussed whether the European Union is set to fail or succeed.

One week after the Iowa caucuses, analysts from across the region convened with the Council to discuss the role of the Midwest in the 2020 presidential election.

National Security Correspondent Fred Kaplan shared previously untold stories from inside the White House, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's "tank" in the Pentagon, and the chambers of US Strategic Command.