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Shamsudden Usman, finance minster of Nigeria
"Ministers of Finance and Civil Society: Friends or Foes?”
October 18, 2007
Other speakers included Charlie Griffin, Brookings Institution senior fellow; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, distinguished fellow of the Brookings Institution and Nigeria's former minister of finance and economy and of foreign affairs; Goodall E. Gondwe, finance minister of Malawi; Jean-Baptiste Compaore, finance minister of Burkina Faso; Anthony Akoto Osei, minister of state at Ghana’s Ministry of Finance; Aloysius Toe, Foundation for Human Rights executive director; and Gilbert Maoundonodji, the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project's Group for Alternative Research and Monitoring coordinator.
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Justin Vaisse, SAIS adjunct professor of European Studies and Brookings Institution fellow
“The French Election and the Consequences for U.S.-European Relations”
October 23, 2007
Other speakers include Corine Lesnes, Le Monde correspondent, and Jeremy Shapiro, director of research at the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe.
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Alexander Vershbow, ambassador of the United States to South Korea
"Seoul-Washington: Where Do We Stand?"
April 24, 2007
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Lorenzo Vidino, a European expert at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and author of Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground for International Jihad
"Islamic Fundamentalism in Europe: Transatlantic Perspectives"
May 18, 2006
Other speakers included Francis Fukuyama, director of the SAIS International Development Program, and Daniel Benjamin, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and co-author of The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right.
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Tom Vilsack, Iowa governor
"Foreign Policy: A Governor's View"
June 13, 2006
Other speakers included Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times, and Robert Guttman, editor-in-chief of Transatlantic.
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Pierre Vimont, ambassador of France to the United States
"France: Refashioning Its Future”
November 30, 2007
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Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System  
"Managing an Investigation: The U.N. Oil for Food Program"
October 26, 2005
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