Speaker Biography: Admiral Karl L. Schultz assumed the duties as the 26th Commandant of the United States Coast Guard on June 1, 2018. As Commandant, he oversees all global Coast Guard operations and 41,000 active-duty, 6,200 reserve, and 8,500 civilian personnel, as well as the support of 25,000 Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers. He previously served from […]

Please join us for a special, exclusive event featuring Lt. Tom Schram, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, who specializes in the study and reporting on national security and political-economic events in China, the Western Pacific, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Thursday, November 18 at 6:30PM EST via Virtual Zoom Presentation The disaster and chaos in Afghanistan just keep getting worse. […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust the World Health Organization (WHO) into the limelight, for better and for worse. While some of the Trump administration’s criticism of the organization was unfair, the response to the early stages of the pandemic left many experts wanting more from the WHO. What is the WHO’s role in responding to […]

Sponsored by World Affairs Council of Orange County Conversation moderated by: Melinda Haring, Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center — Hosted in Partnership with UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies — A Zoom webinar event Thursday, March 3, 2022, at 9:00 AM PST Speaker Bio: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is the leader of the Belarusian […]