114 | FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION Top left: Timothy F. Geithner, U.S. secretary of the treasury-designate, at FPA’s Corporate Dinner. Top right: William R. Rhodes, chairman of Citibank and senior vice chairman of Citigroup, and Maria Bartiromo, anchor of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” at the 2008 Corporate Dinner. Bottom: Timothy Geithner (left) receiving the FPA Medal from E. Gerald Corrigan, managing director of Goldman Sachs & Co.
Off-the-Record (OTR) Lecture Series Off-the-Record Lecture Series had exciting and stimulating 68th and 69th seasons. The 2006- 2007 season was a delicate balance of journalists, including Tony Blankley, Mary Anastasia O’Grady, and Michael Barone, and of former and present ambassadors and nongovernmental organization leaders, including Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Dennis Ross, and Gareth Evans. The season culminated in an eerily prescient closing lecture by Richard Haass, president of the Council on <strong>Foreign</strong> Relations, who dubbed Pakistan the nation to watch in 2008. For the 2007 Elizabeth French Hitchcock Lecture, R. James Woolsey, former director of intelligence for the CIA, spoke on “Energy, Security, and the Long War of the 21st Century.” The 2007-2008 season was one of OTR’s best to date. Nicholas Kristof and George Packer related stories of people they had met amid the conflicts in Darfur and Iraq. Walter Russell Mead, Frank Wisner, and Niall Ferguson emphasized the importance of history in current international issues. L. Paul Bremer and Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad gave government insights on events in Iraq and Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke and Humphrey Taylor forecasted implications of the upcoming presidential election. The 2008 Elizabeth French Hitchcock Lecture, delivered by former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers in the Titus One Auditorium at the Museum of Modern Art, was entitled “America and the New Global Economy.” Off-the-Record continued to hold patron events and etails. The latter are events convened at the last minute, by email only, at private clubs for our patron members. In 2006-2007, OTR held an etail with Edward Rollins, pollster and political consultant, and collaborated with the Overseas Press Club to host an event featuring three Iraqi journalists. Former Chilean Minister of Government Jose Pinera also gave a stimulating talk at a patron event on providing assets to the poor. In 2007-2008, Robert Amsterdam gave an insider’s view of Putin’s Russia; Sandra Hamid discussed conditions in Aceh, Indonesia; and Calvin Sims and Michael Orr of The New York Times screened and discussed their film, “Rearming Japan.” Patron events in 2007-2008 included Vali Nasr on the Shi’a revival and Cheryl Benard of the Rand Corporation on moderate Muslims. Cheryl Benard spoke at the home of Ambassador Gerhard Pfanzelter, permanent representative of Austria to the United Nations, and Mrs. Pfanzelter. Membership has continued to grow steadily. OTR now has 720 members, including almost 250 patron members, and a significant waiting list for membership. With its large membership, OTR has launched a new Website providing online registration and membership renewal capabilities. We look forward to celebrating OTR’s 70th Anniversary with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The 68th and 69th seasons were a strong way to leave my five-year tenure as chairman of the Off-the-Record Board of Governors, and I commend the Board of Governors for all its efforts and wish the Board success in the 70th season and beyond. Ann L. Charters Chairman, Off-the-Record Lecture Series FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION | 115 MEETINGS: OFF-THE -RECORDLECTURE SERIES
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