Global Leaders Forum (GLF)
The Global Leaders Forum is a speaker series that brings together leaders from the public sector, research, finance and industry throughout the academic year to explore solutions to key domestic and international energy and environmental challenges. The GLF serves as a platform for policymakers and executives to share their expertise and insight with SAIS faculty and students and the broader academic, business and media communities. Our invitations are sent to professionals from the energy and environment sectors in the Washington D.C. area as well as the SAIS student and faculty body and SAIS alumni. Typically a diverse audience of approximately 100-150 participants - including students, professionals and faculty - attend Global Leaders Forum events (to view recently recorded GLF events and/or available presentations, please click on the hyperlinks below).
Fall 2017
Innovative Cities Creating the Future
Spring 2017
Climate Policy without the US Government
Dr. John Byrne, Distinguished Professor and Center Director, University of Delaware Center for Energy and Environmental Policy and Chairman and President of the Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment (FREE)
Nuclear Proliferation: the Case of North Korea
Dr. Jonathan D. Pollack, Senior Fellow, Thornton China Center and Interim SK-Korea Foundation Chair, Brookings Institution, author of No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, and International Security
Deep Decarbonization Strategies for the US Economy
Noah Kaufman, World Resources Institute, formerly Council on Environmental Quality and Karl Hausker, World Resources Institute, Research Advisor to “Risky Business"
Missing OPEC? The Unwelcome Return of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
Robert McNally, President of the Rapidan Group, an energy consulting firm, and SAIS alumnus
EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2017
Adam Sieminski, Administrator, US Energy Information Administration
Fall 2016
Energy and Climate Policy of the Next Administration
David Goldwyn, President of Goldwyn Global Strategies, former State Department Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs Roberton C. Williams III, Senior Fellow and Director, Academic Programs, Resources for the Future and Professor, University of Maryland, College Park Ben Longstreth, Senior Attorney, Climate and Clean Air Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
India’s Energy Transition to Mid-Century
Suman Bery, former Chief Economist, Shell
Prospects for US and Global Nuclear Power
Dan Lipman, VP for Supplier and International Programs, Nuclear Energy Institute and SAIS alumnus
Oil Policy and Proposed Energy Reforms in Saudi Arabia
Jean-Francois Seznac, SAIS Adjunct Professor, non-resident Senior Fellow, the Atlantic Council
Spring 2016
Energy and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean
Sir Michael Leigh, Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund
Will There Be Water Wars?
Professor Mark Giordano, Georgetown University
Conversation with Steve Strongin
Steve Strongin, Head, Global Investment Research Division, Goldman Sachs
Low Oil Prices as Viewed by Oil and Gas Company CEOs
Robin West, Senior Adviser, CSIS Energy and National Security Program
From Marginal to Mainstream – the Unexpected Impacts of
Renewables and Distributed Energy Resources on the Power Business
Steve Corneli, SVP for Policy and Regulation, NRG