APRIL 29–MAY 1, 2005Asilomar Conference Center Pacific Grove, California

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THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL’S 59TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT ASILOMAR

For more than half a century, the World Affairs Council’s Annual Conference

has been the most prestigious international affairs conference on the

West Coast. This year’s panels of scholars, government officials, diplomats,

and journalists will discuss the future of the Middle East.

Welcome to the World Affairs Council’s 59th Conference at Asilomar.

We look forward to joining you in this beautiful setting to learn from the speakers, to contribute

to the discussion, and to enjoy the many social activities that are planned.

This year’s conference will examine the future of the Middle East, a region more important than

ever to our security and foreign policy. The conference will commence with a look at future scenarios

for the region. We’ll focus on Iraq and the Persian Gulf and developments between Israel and the

Palestinian Territories. We will also examine the evolution of democracy, and challenges of economic

and social development. And we’ll look at the role played by different actors—from religious move-

ments to multilateral institutions to the media—in shaping the region’s future. The conference will

conclude on Sunday by focusing on policy prescriptions for the United States in the region.

Almost 100 students and teachers will be participating in this year’s conference, thanks to the

generosity of our donors, whom you will recognize by the red apples on their nametags. If you are

a student or teacher, we urge you to introduce yourself to the donors and thank them for making

your Asilomar experience possible.

We are grateful to the volunteer efforts of so many of you who are serving as moderators for the

plenaries and breakout sessions and as hosts for our numerous social events. Moreover, we thank

our speakers for taking time off from their busy schedules to spend the weekend with us.

This weekend represents a long tradition for the World Affairs Council and Asilomar. Thank you

for joining us and contributing to this legacy. Whether you are an expert leading a discussion of

your life’s work or a student learning about U.S. foreign policy for the first time, we are glad to

have you with us and look forward to meeting you over the course of the weekend.

Sincerely yours,

George James Jane WalesChairman of the Board President & CEO

In 1947, many nations were recovering from World War II. Leaders and citizens looked for ways to

rebuild their lives and recover from the immense damage that had been inflicted. Hundreds of thousands

of Americans, many of whom had never left their hometowns before joining the war effort, had traveled

far away to fight against as well as help people they would otherwise have never met. As a result, many

people formed new perspectives on the world—on nations and people they had come to know, on policies

the United States should adopt, and on the importance of reasoning conflicts before they escalated.

At this time, a group of Bay Area citizens recognized the need to increase public understanding of

international issues, and founded the World Affairs Council of Northern California to fulfill this

mission. They wanted to put to use this new collective consciousness and the power of a renewed global

perspective among an informed citizenry. They knew that future generations would benefit from the

wisdom and experience of their predecessors.

Today, the World Affairs Council continues to be the active voice in Northern California, stressing the

importance of international engagement. The Council strives to be a valuable resource to our members

and the broader community looking to understand the impact of global issues and events on their daily

lives. Located in downtown San Francisco, the Council reaches out to the broader local, national, and

international community with chapters throughout the Bay Area, its membership in a nationwide network

of World Affairs Councils, its weekly radio program broadcast locally on KQED, students and educators

who seek to complement their curriculum with international resources, and a growing online presence.

Membership in the World Affairs Council supports these activities:

• Over 200 lectures, debates, seminars and conferences annually

• The Schools Program, serving over 100,000 students and teachers in the Bay Area

• Media outreach through our website and weekly NPR radio program, broadcast locally on KQED

(Monday evenings at 8 PM on 88.5 FM)

• Several Chapters around the Bay, which bring programming closer to our members’ homes

• The Corporate Program, designed to give companies the cutting-edge advantage to succeed in an

increasingly competitive international business climate

• The Young Professionals Program, an all-volunteer group, which promotes the involvement of

younger members (people in their twenties and thirties) and their guests

• The Global Philanthropy Forum, which is connecting a growing network of donors to one

another, to nongovernmental leaders, and to trusted intermediaries engaged in grant making overseas

• The Study Group, a noon-time series run by a group of dedicated volunteers

• The Helen Brown Lombardi Library, which houses approximately 8,000 volumes, 1,000 audio

recordings of Council programs, and over 140 periodicals and newspapers, also provides

access to online and CD-ROM databases and international career resources

www.itsyourworld.org

The World Affairs Council of Northern California

10:15–10:30 AM Break

10:30–12:00 PM PLENARY 3: Prospects for Peace between Israel and Palestine Merrill HallSession Chair: Ambassador Richard Sklar, Former Presidential Special Representative for Economic Reform in Southeast Europe

Israel’s Approach to the Palestinians: A Paradigm ChangeShai Feldman, Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Negotiating for FreedomDiana Buttu, Legal Advisor, Negotiations Affairs Department, the Palestine Liberation Organization

12:00–1:00 PM Lunch Crocker Dining Hall

Lunch for Scholarship Recipients and Donors

1:30–3:00 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS

SESSION 1: Challenges of Democracy: Transitions Merrill HallSession Chair: Chuck Frankel, Third Sector Consultant

The Future of Iran: A Secular Democratic State?Dariush Zahedi, Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Lebanon and the Bush Doctrine?As’ad Abukhalil, Professor, California State University, Stanislaus; Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Democratization in the Gulf: A New Challenge for Traditional MonarchiesJoseph Kéchichian, CEO, Kéchichian & Associates, LLC

SESSION 2: Resources and Economic Development NautilusSession Chair: William H. Draper III, General Partner, Draper Richards

Reflections on the Arab Human Development ReportAmbassador Clovis Maksoud, Director, Center for the Global South, American University

Twin Pillars: Economic Development and the Rule of LawAmbassador Richard Sklar, Former Presidential Special Representative for Economic Reform in Southeast Europe

SESSION 3: The Media: Covering the Conflicts ChapelSession Chair: Andrew Ross, Executive Foreign-National Editor, The San Francisco Chronicle

Captives of Our Cultures: How the World Views the Middle EastJohn Andrews, Senior Editor and West Coast Bureau Chief, The Economist

War of Information: Television Broadcasting in the Middle EastJamal Dajani, Director of Middle Eastern Programming, Link TV

Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue: The Making of “Occupied Minds”David Michaelis, Co-founder of Link TV and Director of Current Affairs

Agenda

Friday, April 29

3:00–10:00 PM Registration Administration Building, Lobby

5:00–6:00 PM Welcome Reception Seascape

5:00–6:00 PM Student Orientation Administration Building Patio

6:00–7:30 PM Dinner Crocker Dining Hall

8:00 PM Welcome Merrill Hall Chairman Michael Nacht, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

8:00–10:00 PM PLENARY I: Thinking about the Future of the Middle East Merrill HallSession Chair: Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California

Scenarios: Planning for the FuturePeter Schwartz, Cofounder and Chairman, Global Business Network

Challenges to DemocracyMarina Ottaway, Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Challenges and Responses in the Middle East: An Arab PerspectiveAmbassador Clovis Maksoud, Director, Center for the Global South, American University

10:00–11:00 PM Reception Seascape

Saturday, April 30

7:30–8:30 AM Breakfast Crocker Dining Hall

Speakers’ Breakfast Woodlands

Student–Mentor Breakfast Seascape

8:45–10:15 AM PLENARY 2: Whither Iraq and the Persian Gulf Sub Region? Merrill HallSession Chair: Skip Rhodes, Manager, Corporate Community Involvement, ChevronTexaco

Lessons on Iraq: US Intentions vs. the RealitiesJudith Miller, Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning Correspondent, The New York Times

The Iraq Election and BeyondMark Danner, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism

The Conservative Arab Gulf Monarchies in 2005Joseph Kéchichian, CEO, Kéchichian & Associates, LLC

Agenda

Meeting the Challenges of the Middle East April 29–May 1, 2005

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8:00–9:30 PM PLENARY 4: Religion and Society Merrill HallSession Chair: Mary Falvey, Falvey Associates

Religion, Politics and U.S. Policy: The Challenge of the Middle EastRev. J. Bryan Hehir, Secretary for Social Services and President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston; Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

9:30–11:00 PM Reception Seascape

10:15–11:00 PM Bonfire Barbecue Area

Sunday, May 1

7:30–9:00 AM Breakfast Crocker Dining Hall

9:00–10:30 AM PLENARY 5: United States Policy Prescriptions Merrill HallSession Chair: Michael Nacht, Conference Chair and Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

United States and the Arab World: Conversion and ConflictAmbassador Mohamed Shaker, Vice Chairman of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador of Egypt to the United Kingdom

Iran, Iraq, and U.S. InterestsGeoffrey Kemp, Director of Regional Strategic Programs, the Nixon Center; former Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council in the Reagan Administration.

Challenges in the Arab-Israeli Arena: Syria, Lebanon, and the Creation of PalestineFlynt Leverett, Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, the Brookings Institution; former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council in the G.W. Bush Administration

10:30–11:00 AM Final Thoughts and Conclusion by Conference ChairMichael Nacht, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

11:00–12:00 PM Pick up boxed lunch Crocker Dining Hall

Checkout Administration Building

Agenda

SESSION 4: Security Challenges: Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction KilnSession Chair: Ronald F. Lehman, II, Director of the Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The Growing Danger of Proliferation in the Persian GulfJudith Miller, Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning Correspondent, The New York Times

The Iran FactorShai Feldman, Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Establishing a Nuclear-Free Zone in the Middle EastAmbassador Mohamed Shaker, Vice Chairman of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador of Egypt to the United Kingdom

Refocusing the War on TerrorFlynt Leverett, Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, the Brookings Institution; former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council in the G.W. Bush Administration

SESSION 5: Role of Multilateral Institutions and Non-state Actors ScrippsSession Chair: JoAnn Aviel, Professor and Chair, International Relations, San Francisco State University

The United Nations in the Middle East: Limitations and PossibilitiesHillary Mann Leverett, Middle East expert, U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff; former Political Advisor for Middle Eastern and South Asian Affairs with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations

Beyond TreatiesChristine Covey, Vice President, Seeds of Peace

Supporting Local Peace and Justice Efforts in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What can we do?Jennifer Kuiper, Middle East Working Group and Research Consultant, Nonviolent Peaceforce

3:00–3:30 PM Coffee and Refreshments Break Various locations

3:30–6:00 PM Free time or Student Simulation: Iran Goes Nuclear Chapel

5:00–6:00 PM Sunset Reception Kiln & Hearth

6:00–7:00 PM “At Dinner with…” Crocker Dining Hall

7:00–7:30 PM Report on Student Simulation Merrill Hall

7:30–8:00 PM Annual Meeting of the Membership Merrill Hall

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JAMAL DAJANIJamal Dajani is Director of Middle EasternProgramming at Link TV. He has previously servedas Trustee and President of the Board of Directors ofthe Arab Cultural & Community Center of SanFrancisco. Born in Jerusalem in 1957, Dajani attended

Columbia University in New York City where he received a B.A.degree in Political Science. Dajani provides more than 25 years ofleadership in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. In 2001, he joined Link TV to fill a much-needed void in the dissemination of news from the Middle East to the American public.The result was the birth of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East,which first aired in October 2001. As of February 2005, Dajani participated in several Link TV special productions as a Producer,Senior Editor and Political Analyst. He is currently co-producing thedocumentary Occupied Minds, a work in progress dealing with thePalestinian-Israeli conflict, and Who Speaks for Islam?, a new strand ofshows to be aired on Link TV and PBS in 2005. Dajani is a frequentguest on numerous national and international media broadcast net-works and a contributor to Pacific News Service. He was also featuredin many publications, such as The New York Times, The Los AngelesTimes, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, US News &World Report, The Chicago Tribune, and Columbia Journalism Review.He also appeared in CBS’s Sunday Morning, MSNBC News and TheNachman Show, KQED’s On The Home Front, NBC’s Nightly Newswith Tom Brokaw, ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, FOX News with Brit Hume,Univision, ARD Television-Germany, NOS iTelevision–The Netherlands,NHK Television–Japan, and most Bay Area television networks. Dajanihas received the “Special Achievement Award” from the NewCalifornia Media in 2003. Mosaic also received a 2005 Peabody Award.

MARK DANNERMark Danner is a writer who for 25 years has writtenon politics and foreign policy, focusing on war andconflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, theBalkans, and Iraq and the Middle East, among manyother stories. Danner is the author of The Massacre at

El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy; andTorture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror, as wellas forthcoming books on the former Yugoslavia and Haiti. Since 1990Mark Danner has been a Staff Writer at The New Yorker and is a fre-quent contributor to New York Review of Books. Danner’s work hasappeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, Aperture, and many othernewspapers and magazines. He has co-written and helped producetwo-hour long documentaries for the ABC News program PeterJennings Reporting, and his work has received, among other honors, aNational Magazine Award, two Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy.

In 1999 Danner was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is presently aProfessor of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley andHenry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights, Democracy, andJournalism at Bard College. Danner speaks and lectures widely on for-eign policy and America’s role in the world. His book, Torture andTruth, was just named the winner of the 2004 Madeline Dane RossAward from the Overseas Press Club of America, awarded annually tothe best book of the year on international affairs.

WILLIAM H. DRAPER, III *

William H. Draper, III has over 25 years of experi-ence and is one of America’s first venture capitalists.Draper was a founder of Sutter Hill Ventures in PaloAlto, California. During his 20 years as a SeniorPartner of Sutter Hill, a leading venture capital firm

in the U.S., he helped to organize and finance several hundred hightechnology manufacturing companies. From 1981 to 1986, he servedas President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the UnitedStates. In 1986, he became the head of the world’s largest source ofmultilateral development grant assistance, the United NationsDevelopment Program. Draper was Chairman of the World AffairsCouncil of Northern California and serves on the boards of theInstitute of International Studies at Stanford University andPopulation Action International. He has also served on the boards ofInstitute of International Education and Yale University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the President’sCouncil on International Activities at Yale University. He holds a B.A.degree from Yale University, and a Master of Business degree, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.

MARY FALVEY *

Mary Falvey has had a diverse career as a manage-ment consultant, operating executive, entrepreneur,appointee to senior advisory positions in the federalgovernment, and trustee in the education, healthcare, and performing arts arenas. She now serves as a

corporate director and as an advisor to and investor in early-stage tech-nology companies. Falvey is a graduate of Cornell University and theHarvard Business School. She lives in San Francisco.Falvey’s boardmemberships include the Golden Gate Bank, San FranciscoSymphony, the World Affairs Council of Northern California,Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Cornell University. Her pastresponsibilities include the Trustee of the Social Security Trust Fundsand a member of the National Commission on Social Security Reform(both Presidential appointments), member of the CompositeCommittee of the United States Medical Licensing Examination, andChair of the Boards of Trustees of San Francisco Performances andSaint Francis Hospital Foundation.

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AS’AD ABUKHALILAs’ad AbuKhalil is a Professor of Political Science atCalifornia State University, Stanislaus and a ResearchAssociate with the Center of Middle Eastern Studiesat University of California, Berkeley. He received hisPh.D. in comparative government from Georgetown

University. He is the author of several books and articles including Bin Laden, Islam, and America’s New “War on Terrorism”; HistoricalDictionary of Lebanon; The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty,Fundamentalism, and Global Power; his forthcoming book, Saudi Arabiaand The US: The Tale of the Good Taliban; How do We Stay Arabs, HowDo We Stay Human: Confronting globalization; and finally, What is Yet toCome: the Aftermath of September 11. He was born in Tyre, Lebanon andgrew up in Beirut. He runs a blog called “The Angry Arab News Service”at angryarab.blogspot.com.

JOHN ANDREWSJohn Andrews is a Senior Editor and Writer for TheEconomist, the prestigious British weekly. He hasbeen The Economist’s West Coast Bureau Chief sinceSeptember 2003, having spent the previous fouryears as Paris Bureau Chief, analyzing French politics

and economy in the magazine’s news pages and in its Charlemagne col-umn. He has been with The Economist for the past 23 years, workingin London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brussels, Washington D.C., Parisand now Los Angeles. Before joining The Economist, Andrews spentsix years with The Guardian and led the paper’s coverage of OPECduring its 1979–82 heyday. A graduate of Cambridge University inclassical and modern Arabic, he came to The Guardian after living forseven years in the Arab world, first as an academic and then as a jour-nalist. John Andrews has written two books on Asia, co-authored abook on Europe and contributed chapters to other books, includingThe Encyclopædia Britannica. His surveys in The Economist—12,000-word essays which, unlike the magazine’s other articles, carry abyline—have covered subjects as diverse as civil aerospace and theworld of sport. He is a frequent broadcaster and public speaker.

JOANN AVIEL *

JoAnn Aviel is Professor and Chair of InternationalRelations at San Francisco State University. She teach-es courses on Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis,Latin American Policy Analysis, and InternationalOrganization. She is a co-editor of Multilateral

Diplomacy and the United Nations. Recent publications include:“Nicaragua: Foreign Policy in the Revolutionary and Post-RevolutionaryAge” in Frank O. Mora and Jeanne A.K. Hey, eds. Latin American andCaribbean Foreign Policy; and “Placing Human Rights and EnvironmentalIssues on ASEAN’s Agenda: The Role of Non-Governmental

Organizations,” Asian Journal of Political Science, based on researchdone at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in 1998. “The Role ofNGOs in El Salvador and Guatemala in Establishing the Rule of Law”is to be published in 2005 in Oliver P. Richmond and Henry F. Carey’sSubcontracting Peace: NGOs and Peacebuilding in a Dangerous World. Sheserved as a Fulbright Professor in 1999 at the University of Costa Ricaand in 1984 at the Diplomatic Academy of Peru, and received an Officeof International Programs grant to do research in Ecuador in 2004.Aviel received her Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,Tufts University.

DIANA BUTTUDiana Buttu is a legal advisor with the NegotiationsAffairs Department of the Palestine LiberationOrganization. Since October 2000, Buttu has beenadvising the Palestinian team in peace negotiationswith Israel. Previously, Buttu served as legal counsel

to the Canadian Department of Justice in Ottawa. She is currentlypursuing a doctoral degree in Law and Refugee Reparations atStanford Law School. Buttu received a B.A. and an L.L.M. from theUniversity of Toronto, a J.D. from Queen’s University in Ontario, anda J.S.M. from Stanford University. She is a member of the OntarioBar. Buttu lives in Ramallah.

CHRISTINE RAMSAY COVEYChristine Ramsay Covey is a founding Board Memberof Seeds of Peace and Vice President since its founda-tion in 1993. From her years living in dividedJerusalem, she was convinced that younger generationsof Israeli and Palestinian youth were caught in a trap

of despair. Seeds of Peace’s founder John Wallach offered a vision of abetter future for them and their communities, and he asked Covey tohelp organize a program for reconciliation among Middle Easternyouth. Covey returned to the Middle East to gain foreign governmentcooperation and to lead the Seeds selection process. She developed thecontent and program for the Middle East Youth Summit in Villars in1998 and the International Youth Summit on Uprooting Hatred andTerror in 2001. While continuing work on the Middle East program,she established the Cyprus program in 1998 and the Balkans programin 2000. She continues to direct both programs and drafted the BeyondBorders program concept for Arab and American dialogue initiated in2004. For nearly 30 years, Covey has lived and worked in divided areasof the Middle East, Central Europe and the Balkans with her diplomatfamily. Covey is a Member of the Balkans Working Group, UnitedStates Institute of Peace, a Board Member of the Paul Taylor DanceFoundation, and an officer of the Bechtel Women of the Bay Area. Shestudied political science and psychology at Michigan State University(BA), George Washington University (MBA), and is a C.P.A.

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2005 Annual Conference Speaker Biographies

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for Southwest Asia. In 1976, while working for the Senate Committeeon Foreign Relations, he prepared a widely publicized report on U.S.Military Sales to Iran.

JENNIFER KUIPERJennifer Kuiper is a member of the Middle EastWorking Group, a Research Consultant for NonviolentPeaceforce (International), and a Board Member for Peaceworkers in San Francisco. Kuiper works insupport of Palestinian and Israeli efforts to end

occupation of the Palestinian Territories through nonviolence. Overthe past three years, she has lived periodically in the region to docu-ment the challenges facing grassroots efforts for unarmed struggle. Shehas just returned from thirteen months overseas where she completedan assessment for the Nonviolent Peaceforce to evaluate the potentialcontributions to peace building efforts of a large-scale professional,unarmed civilian force. During this period, she also worked with theTruman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew Universityin Jerusalem to develop cooperative programs between Israeli andPalestinian universities and faculties. Kuiper holds a Bachelor’s degreein American Studies from Stanford University and a Master’s degree inPublic Policy from the Goldman School at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. She has worked in the nongovernmental sectorfor over 15 years, including community mediation programs, conflictresolution work in Eastern and Central Europe during its transitionfrom Soviet States, and as a consultant for federal and state govern-ment agencies evaluating social welfare programs in the U.S.

RONALD F. LEHMAN, II *

Ronald F. Lehman, II is Director of the Center forGlobal Security Research at the Department ofEnergy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.He works for the University of California and is alsoChairman of the Governing Board of the International

Science and Technology Center, an inter-governmental organizationheadquartered in Moscow, Russia. After the September 11 attack, hewas detailed to the National Nuclear Security Administration to workon counter-terrorism and homeland security. He also serves as a mem-ber of the Department of Defense Threat Reduction AdvisoryCommittee and its subcommittees on counter-terrorism, biological war-fare defense, and nuclear deterrence. In 1995, Lehman was appointed tothe five-member President’s Advisory Board on Arms ProliferationPolicy. Previously, he was Director of the U.S. Arms Control andDisarmament Agency from 1989 to 1993. Earlier, he served in theDefense Department as Assistant Secretary for International SecurityPolicy; in the State Department as U.S. Chief Negotiator on StrategicOffensive Arms; and in the White House as Deputy Assistant to thePresident for National Security Affairs. He has also served on theNational Security Council staff as a Senior Director; in the Pentagon asDeputy Assistant Secretary, on the Professional Staff of the U.S. SenateArmed Services Committee; and in Vietnam with the U.S. Army. Hereceived his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1968 and hisPh.D. from the Claremont Graduate University in 1975.

FLYNT LEVERETT Flynt Leverett is a Senior Fellow at the BrookingsInstitution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy inWashington, D.C. Leverett came to Brookings aftera distinguished career in government service. FromFebruary 2002 to March 2003, he served at the

White House as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at theNational Security Council. In this role, he advised President Bush andNational Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice on Arab-Israeli issues andU.S. relations with Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the PalestinianAuthority, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. During the first year of the BushAdministration, Leverett was on the Secretary of State’s PolicyPlanning Staff, handling Middle East and counterterrorism issues. Forhis contributions to U.S. policy in these areas and to the formation ofan international coalition to fight terror following the September 11attacks, he was awarded the State Department’s Superior HonorAward. Leverett also served for eight years as Senior Analyst of MiddleEast and South Asian affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency. He leftthe Bush Administration in 2003 because of policy disagreements overthe conduct of the war on terror and Middle East issue more general-ly. Leverett is the author of Inheriting Syria: Bashar’s Trial By Fire, aforthcoming study of Syrian politics and policymaking under Basharal Asad that also offers analysis and recommendations regarding U.S.policy toward this critical country. Recognized as an authority on theMiddle East, U.S. foreign policy, and intelligence issues, he lecturesregularly in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

HILLARY MANN LEVERETTHillary Mann Leverett is Middle East Expert on theU.S. State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. Shefocuses on the Gulf and rogue states in the MiddleEast as well as building regional cooperative securitymechanisms for the region. From December 2001 to

March 2003, she was Director for Iran, Afghanistan and Gulf Affairs atthe National Security Council at the White House. From July 2000 toDecember 2001, she was Political Adviser for Middle Eastern andSouth Asian Affairs with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. In1997, she authored the groundbreaking, “Open Admissions: U.S.Policy Towards Students from Terrorism Supporting Countries in theMiddle East,” which was the first study to identify the use of studentvisas as a looming terrorism threat for the United States. From 1994 to1996, she was an Attorney/Adviser on Middle East issues for aWashington DC law firm. She is a graduate of Harvard Law Schooland Brandeis University, has studied at the American University inCairo and Tel Aviv University.

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SHAI FELDMANShai Feldman is the director of the new CrownCenter for Middle East Studies at Brandeis. Feldmanis a Member of the Board at the Belfer Center forScience and International Affairs at HarvardUniversity. He was Director at Tel Aviv University’s

Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, as well as Research Director of theproject on Regional Security and Arms Control in the Middle East.Dr. Feldman is the author of Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: A Strategy forthe 1980s (1982). He has written extensively on nuclear proliferation,Israeli national security, domestic politics and defense policy, and U.S.foreign and defense policies in the Middle East. Dr. Feldman edited(with Ariel Levite) Arms Control and the New Middle East SecurityEnvironment (1994) and Confidence Building and Verification: Prospectsin the Middle East (1994). He also completed a study (with Dr.Abdullah Toukan, of Jordan) entitled Bridging the Gap: A FutureSecurity Architecture for the Middle East, which was conducted for theCarnegie Corporation’s Commission of Preventing Deadly Conflict.Dr. Feldman’s book, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the MiddleEast, was published in 1996. His latest book is Track-II Diplomacy:Lessons From the Middle East (MIT Press, 2004).

CHUCK FRANKEL *

Chuck Frankel has had extensive involvement withthe World Affairs Council since he joined its YoungAdult Study Group over 40 years ago. As PeaceCorps country director, corporate foundation director and tour operator owner, he has lived and

traveled extensively in Africa and Asia. He has been an entrepreneur,manager of and consultant to private, public and non-profit enter-prises. He currently serves on the Boards of the Smithsonian Museumof African Art, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the NationalPeace Corps Association, and as well as the World Affairs Council. Heis Honorary Consul General of Botswana. In 1988, the NationalEndowment for the Humanities (NEH) established the CharlesFrankel Prize to recognize persons for outstanding contributions tothe public’s understanding of the humanities. The Charles FrankelPrize was awarded from 1989 to 1996. In 1997, the NEH dedicateda conference room in Charles Frankel’s name.

J. BRYAN HEHIRJ. Bryan Hehir is Secretary for Social Services andPresident of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese ofBoston. He is also Parker Gilbert MontgomeryProfessor of the Practice of Religion and Public Lifeat the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard

University. Father Hehir took his A.B. and Master of Divinity degreesat St. John’s Seminary and his Doctor of Theology at Harvard DivinitySchool. His research and writing focus on issues of ethics and foreignpolicy, Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politicsand in American society. Prior to assuming these positions, FatherHehir served as President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the

national network of Charities in the United States, from 2001 to2003. From 1984 to 1992, he served on the faculty at GeorgetownUniversity in the School of Foreign Service and the Kennedy Instituteof Ethics. From 1993 to 2001, he served on the Harvard DivinitySchool faculty as a Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society.From 1998 to 2001 he served as Interim Dean and Dean of theDivinity School. His publications include The Moral Measurement ofWar: A Tradition of Continuity and Change; Military Intervention andNational Sovereignty; Catholicism and Democracy; Social Values andPublic Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition; and The MoralDimension in the Use of Force. He is also co-author of Liberty and Power:A Dialogue on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy in an Unjust World.

JOSEPH A. KÉCHICHIANJoseph A. Kéchichian is CEO of Kéchichian &Associates, LLC, a consulting partnership that pro-vides analysis on the Arabian/Persian Gulf region,specializing in the domestic and regional concerns ofBahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi

Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Yemen. He received a doctorate in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1985,where he also taught and assumed the assistant deanship in interna-tional studies. In the summer of 1989, Kéchichian was a HooverFellow at Stanford University (under the US State Department TitleVIII Program). Between 1990 and 1996, he was an Associate PoliticalScientist at the Santa Monica-based RAND Corporation, and a lectur-er at the University of California, Los Angeles. Between 1998 and2001, he was a fellow at UCLA’s Gustav E. von Grunebaum Centerfor Near Eastern Studies, where he held a Smith RichardsonFoundation grant to compose “Succession in Saudi Arabia.” Kéchichianpublished Oman and the World: The Emergence of an IndependentForeign Policy, and edited A Century in Thirty Years: Shaykh Zayed andthe United Arab Emirates as well as Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States.In 2003, he co-authored The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership thatincludes a full translation of the Sulwan al-Muta` by Muhammad IbnZafar al-Siqilli. His latest book, Succession in Arab Monarchies will bepublished in 2005. Since March 1998, he regularly writes in the Paris-based Arabies Trends, and publishes a syndicated bi-weekly columntitled “Window on the Gulf.”

GEOFFREY KEMPGeoffrey Kemp is Director of Regional StrategicPrograms at the Nixon Center. He served in the WhiteHouse during the first Reagan administration and wasSpecial Assistant to the President for National SecurityAffairs and Senior Director for Near East and South

Asian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff. Prior to his currentposition, he was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment forInternational Peace where he was Director of the Middle East ArmsControl Project. In the 1970’s he worked in the Defense Department inthe Policy Planning and Program Analysis and Evaluation Offices andmade major contributions to studies on U.S. security policy and options

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SKIP RHODES *

Skip Rhodes is Manager of the Corporate CommunityInvolvement for ChevronTexaco and is responsible for managing and directing all consolidated charitableand business expense contributions and programs forthe corporation and participating ChevronTexaco

companies worldwide. Rhodes assumed his present position inSeptember 1986. He joined the company in 1959 and has held variouspositions in the field of transportation, logistics and supply, marketing,antitrust litigation, business planning, government affairs and publicaffairs. From 1986 to 1994, Rhodes was a council member of thePiedmont, California City Council and was mayor from 1990 to 1992.He served with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from1978 to 1994 and was Director of the Joint Operations Staff (NATO)from 1984 to 1994. He was the founding President of the Board ofDirectors of a San Francisco Bay Area private school for five years. He ispast President and current board member of the Commonwealth Clubof California, a member of the Board of Trustees of the World AffairsCouncil of Northern California, and was a member of the board of directors for the Council on Foundations in Washington, D.C. from1993 to 1999, and board chair from 1996 to 1998.

ANDREW S. ROSS *

Andrew S. Ross is Executive Foreign & NationalEditor for The San Francisco Chronicle where he super-vises assigning and editing of international and nation-al stories since 2001. Andrew planned and oversaw thenewspaper’s coverage of the Afghanistan war and the

U.S.-led war in Iraq. Prior to coming to The Chronicle, Andrew wasManaging Editor and Executive Vice President of Salon.com, theaward-winning website which he co-founded. From 1985-1995, Rossworked at the San Francisco Examiner where he held the position ofForeign Editor, Chief of Correspondents, and Associate Editor. He haswritten and reported from the Middle East, Central America, EasternEurope, and most recently, India. Ross has also been Assistant NewsDirector at KQED-TV, Assignment Editor at KPIX-TV and Reporterfor National Public Radio, California Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, andThe Guardian of London.

MOHAMED I. SHAKER Ambassador Mohamed I. Shaker is Vice Chairman ofthe Board of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs(ECFA). He has held the position of Chairman sincethe establishment of the Council in 1999 untilSeptember 2003. Ambassador Shaker is also

Chairman of the Regional Information Technology Institute (RITI)since 2002 and Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of the RegionalInformation Technology Software and Engineering Centre (RITSEC).In addition, Ambassador Shaker is Chairman of the Board of theSawires Foundation for Social Development since 2001. In 2002 hebecame a member of the Higher Council for Policies of Egypt’sNational Democratic Party (NDP). He has also been selected in

October 2004 as a member of the Court on Values. He held the posi-tion of Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the UnitedKingdom from September 1988 to September 1997. As of July 1997Ambassador Shaker was the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps accreditedto the Court of St. James. Before taking up his post in London,Ambassador Shaker was Head of the Department of Western Europe atthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt as ofJanuary 1988. He was Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt toAustria, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations inVienna, Resident Representative and Egypt’s Governor on the Board ofGovernors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), andPermanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations IndustrialDevelopment Organization (UNIDO) for the period November 1986until January 1988. Before Vienna Ambassador Shaker was DeputyPermanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations in New Yorkfrom January 1984 to October 1986 and Deputy Representative ofEgypt to the United Nations Security Council from 1984 to 1985. Oneof Ambassador Shaker’s works is The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:Origin and Implementation 1959–1979.

PETER SCHWARTZPeter Schwartz is Cofounder and Chairman of GlobalBusiness Network, a Monitor Group company, and aPartner of the Monitor Group, a family of profession-al services firms devoted to enhancing client competi-tiveness. An internationally renowned futurist and

business strategist, Schwartz specializes in scenario planning, workingwith corporations, governments, and institutions to create alternativeperspectives of the future and develop robust strategies for a changingand uncertain world. His current research and scenario work encom-passes energy resources and the environment, technology, telecommu-nications, media and entertainment, aerospace, and national security.Schwartz is also a Venture Partner of San Francisco-based Alta Partners,a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of theBoard of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, the Long Now Foundation,and the World Affairs Council.Schwartz is the author of InevitableSurprises, a provocative look at the dynamic forces at play in the worldtoday and their implications for business and society. His first book, TheArt of the Long View, is considered a seminal publication on scenarioplanning and has been translated into multiple languages. He is also theco-author of The Long Boom, a vision for the world characterized byglobal openness, prosperity, and discovery; When Good Companies DoBad Things, an examination of, and argument for, corporate socialresponsibility; and China’s Futures, which describes very different sce-narios for China and their international implications. He publishes andlectures widely and served as a script consultant on the films such as TheMinority Report, Deep Impact, Sneakers, and War Games. Schwartzreceived a B.S. in aeronautical engineering and astronautics fromRensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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CLOVIS MAKSOUDAmbassador Clovis Maksoud is a Professor ofInternational Relations and Director of the Center forthe Global South at American University inWashington, D.C. A Lebanese national, AmbassadorMaksoud was Chief Representative of the League of

Arab States in India from 1961 to 1966. From 1967 to 1979, he servedas a Senior Editor of Al-Ahram and then Chief Editor of Al-NaharWeekly. Ambassador Maksoud was appointed as the League of ArabStates’ Chief Representative to the United States and the UnitedNations on September 1, 1979. On August 15, 1990, he submitted hisresignation from the League in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion ofKuwait. A lawyer, journalist and diplomat, Ambassador Maksoudserved as the Arab League Ambassador to India and South-East Asiafrom 1961-1966. Ambassador Maksoud is the author of several articlesand books on the Middle East and the global South, among them: TheMeaning of Non-Alignment, “The Crisis of the Arab Left,” “Reflectionson Afro-Asianism,” and The Arab Image. Ambassador Maksoud was theChairperson and Convener of many conferences on environment anddevelopment, human rights, population, and disarmament. Born onDecember 17, 1928, Ambassador Maksoud graduated from theAmerican University of Beirut, went on to receive his J.D. from theGeorge Washington University in Washington, D.C. and did post-graduate studies at Oxford University in Britain.

DAVID MICHAELISDavid Michaelis co-founded Link TV in 1999 andcurrently serves as Director of Current Affairs of theLink TV channel in San Francisco. He co-producedthe film Occupied Minds with Jamal Dajani in 2005.Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Michaelis studied at the

Hebrew University and received his degree in philosophy and sociolo-gy. Michaelis has produced and directed documentaries on social andpolitical issues for the BBC Channel 4 in the UK as well as for ARDand ZDF in Germany. He served as a news editor in London andWashington for ARD. His work on various talk shows and documen-taries has always been on the forefront of legitimizing the rights ofminorities. As editor of Israel’s most popular television show, Popolitika,it is noteworthy that Michaelis initiated the first dialogues on Israel tel-evision between PLO officials and Israeli MPs and, later, between aSyrian MP in Damascus and the leader of the opposition party inIsrael, MK Benjamin Netanyahu. Michaelis has been interviewed bynumerous broadcast and print media outlooks including ABC’s WorldNews Tonight with Peter Jennings, The New York Times, The Los AngelesTimes, and The Columbia Journalism Review, among others.

JUDITH MILLER Judith Miller is a Senior Writer for The New YorkTimes. In 2002 she, along with ten other reporters,received a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of theMiddle East following September 11. Miller coversnational security issues with a special emphasis on

the Middle East and weapons of mass destruction. In 1983, she wasthe first woman to be named the Times’ Bureau Chief in Cairo, Egypt.She is also an author and has written four books and contributedchapters to several others.

MICHAEL NACHT *

Michael Nacht is Aaron Wildavsky Dean andProfessor of Public Policy in the Goldman School ofPublic Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.He teaches and writes in the fields of U.S. nationalsecurity and foreign policy and on management strate-

gies for public organizations. From 1994 to 1997, after unanimous U.S.Senate confirmation, Nacht served as Assistant Director for Strategicand Eurasian Affairs of the U.S. Arms Control and DisarmamentAgency. He directed the Agency’s work on nuclear arms reduction andmissile defense negotiations with Russia and designed the first high-levelnuclear arms dialogue with China. He participated in five summit meet-ings with President Clinton: four with Russian President Yeltsin and onewith Chinese President Jiang Zemin. He was granted the Agency’sDistinguished Honor Award, its highest form of recognition. He recent-ly chaired an advisory panel to the Office of the Secretary of Defense oncombating terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction in the U.S. Heis a member of the Educator’s Advisory Committee to the ComptrollerGeneral of the United States, an advisory committee to the LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory, the Board of Trustees of the WorldAffairs Council of Northern California, and the Board of the JapanSociety of Northern California.

MARINA OTTAWAYMarina Ottaway is a Senior Associate for theDemocracy and Rule of Law Project at the CarnegieEndowment for International Peace, a researchendeavor that analyzes the state of democracy aroundthe world and the efforts by the U.S. and other coun-

tries to promote democracy. Her current work focuses on politicaltransformation in the Middle East and reconstruction in Iraq andAfghanistan. She is also a lecturer in African Studies at the Nitze Schoolfor Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.Ottaway carried out research in Africa and in the Middle East andtaught at the University of Addis Ababa, the University of Zambia, theAmerican University in Cairo, and the University of the Witwatersrandin South Africa. Ottaway received her Ph.D. from ColumbiaUniversity. She is fluent in French and Italian. Her most recent publi-cations include: Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the MiddleEast; Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism; FundingVirtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion, edited with ThomasCarothers; and Africa’s New Leaders: Democracy or State Reconstruction?

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RICHARD SKLARAmbassador Sklar has a distinguished and honored40-year career in private and public sector manage-ment. He received his Bachelor’s degree in mechanicalengineering from Cornell Universally in 1957 andwent on to found a Cleveland-based manufacturer of

consumption equipment of which he was President and CEO. Thecompany was sold in 1973. He later became President and a principalowner of the San Francisco-based construction management firm ofO’Brien Kreitzberg, Inc., which at the time it was sold was one of thelargest management construction firms in North America. In 1996,Ambassador Sklar was appointed as President’s Special Representativefor Economic Reform and Reconstruction to carry out civilian develop-ment in Bosnia as part of the U.S. brokered peace accords. In 1998,Ambassador Sklar was named U.S. Representative for United NationsReform and Management. He then returned to the Balkans as PresidentClinton’s Special Representative for Economic Reform in SoutheastEurope and continues to advise the Government of Montenegro on apro bono basis. Currently, Ambassador Sklar serves as President of theSan Francisco Public Utilities Commission, acts as the principal eco-nomic advisor to the Prime Minister of Montenegro, and carries outmediation of major public and private legal disputes as an independentmediator. He also recently joined the Board of Trustees at the WorldAffairs Council of Northern California.

JANE WALES *

Jane Wales is President and Chief Executive Officerof the World Affairs Council of Northern California.She is former Associate Director of the White HouseOffice of Science Technology Policy, and SeniorDirector of the National Security Council. Prior to

her dual appointment in the Clinton Administration, Wales chairedthe international programs at the Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkand the W. Alton Jones Foundation. She was also Director of theRockefeller Brothers Fund’s Project on World Security. She served asDeputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration andwas National Executive Director of Physicians for SocialResponsibility, which shared in the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. She beganher career as a journalist and has authored two books.

DARIUSH ZAHEDICurrently a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, DariushZahedi has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at HarvardUniversity’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, andhis articles have appeared in journals such as MiddleEast Policy and Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic

Review. His current research project is a comparative analysis of statebuilding and modernization in Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan. His second research agenda examines the patterns of political participationand engagement as well as the political attitudes of Iranian expatriatesin the U.S. In the summer of 2003, Zahedi was falsely accused of espionage and imprisoned in Iran for four months. After 60 days, theIranian Ministry of Intelligence found the charges against him to bebaseless and recommended that he be released unconditionally.Tehran’s prosecutor general, however, refused to accept the ministry’srecommendation. Instead, the prosecutor transferred Zahedi to thecustody of the Intelligence Unit of the Revolutionary Guards, wherehe was detained for an additional two months. He was finally releasedon bail and allowed to leave the country. Zahedi has now resumed histeaching in Berkeley. In addition, he is working on the establishmentof a center on the study and promotion of social, economic, and polit-ical development at Berkeley.

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we invite you to jointhe donors circle

These are just a few of the prominent figures who have visited with our Donors Circle:

Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; founder of the Green Belt Movement

Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense; former President, World Bank

Cokie Roberts, Senior News Analyst, NPR; political Commentator, ABC News

Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

Joseph S. Nye Jr., Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations and former Dean,

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Niall Ferguson, Professor of International History, Harvard University; Senior Research Fellow,

Jesus College, Oxford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

George McGovern, former US Senator and Democratic Presidential Nominee; former Director,

US Food for Peace Program; United Nations Global Ambassador on Hunger

If you are interested in joining the Donors Circle, please contact Michael Lawrence, 415.293.4643 or mlawrence@wacsf.org

The Donors Circle consists of five levels of giving beginning at $1,000.As your level of gift giving increases within the Circle, so do your benefits

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What are the advantages of being a member of the Donors Circle? As a member of the Donors Circle you will meet with world leaders, policyadvisors, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winners, corporate executives, and ourtrustees at exclusive receptions and dinners. You will also have the opportunityto sponsor students, perhaps moderate a program, define programming, andhost events. Over the years members of the Donors Circle have become closefriends and look forward to seeing each other as they share their enthusiasmfor learning more about our world. Many of the private receptions and dinnersare held in the homes of members of the Donors Circle, which furtherenhances the feeling of camaraderie.

Who will you meet?

2005 Special Asilomar Scholarships

Carol Marquis Memorial ScholarshipLynn Wu, Elmhurst Middle School

Carol Marquis devoted her life to education. For ten years,

she was an extraordinary classroom teacher and for over fifteen

years, she directed the World Affairs Council’s Schools Program.

She was a leader in the California International Studies Project

and in state and national professional organizations devoted to

Social Studies. This scholarship is to honor her memory and

to acknowledge another outstanding educator.

George Ballou Memorial ScholarshipsJohn Anderson, Merrill F. West High School

Sheryl Hott, Little Oak School

Jerry Underdal, Mission San Jose High School

George Ballou was President of the World Affairs Council from 1979 to 1981; a Trustee for more than fifteen years; and a veteran participant at an even greater number of AsilomarConferences. He was deeply committed to educating youngpeople about international issues and believed that better-informed teachers were critical to further that purpose.

Richard Castile ScholarshipsMaureen McCorry, Palo Alto High School

John McMorris, San Ramon Valley High School

Maryann Wolfe, Oakland Technical High School

Richard Castile spearheaded the Council’s scholarship efforts for many years and continues to be an active member of ourScholarship Committee. This endowment was established to honor Richard Castile and to acknowledge outstanding teachers who have worked particularly hard to encourage student participation in Council activities.

Jefferson Peyser Memorial ScholarshipsAneliya Dimitrova, College of Marin

Savilla Pitt, Las Positas College

Jefferson Peyser was a dedicated and active member of theScholarship Committee. Through his estate, he created this endowment for annual scholarships to be awarded to individuals for their outstanding service to the Council.

Edith Coliver Memorial ScholarshipsDavid Peterson, San Francisco State University

Clara Chung-wai Shih, Stanford University

Edith Coliver was a former Trustee and a stalwart participant in Council programs and committees. Friends of Edith Coliverestablished two scholarships in her name. A refugee from NaziGermany, Edith was devoted to promoting human rights, intercul-tural dialogue and world peace. Throughout her forty-year careeras an Asia Foundation officer, she was actively involved in com-munity organizations in the U.S. and abroad. These scholarshipsare awarded to outstanding students who share Edith Coliver's world vision and intellectual curiosity.

Carlton Dudley Memorial ScholarshipsBrian C. Chao, Mills High School

Eva Goodyear, George Washington High School

Alex Park, Oakland Technical High School

Carlton Dudley was a dedicated and tireless member of the World Affairs Council and its Scholarship Committee. In 1995, a memorial was established in his name to send students to theCouncil program he enjoyed the most-Asilomar. This scholar-ship is for students with an active interest in foreign exchangeand international affairs.

Philip Habib Memorial ScholarshipsSatyajit Dutt, De Anza College

Scott Edward Hartley, Stanford University

Laurel Kropuenske, Stanford University

Ambassador Philip Habib was the highest ranking career diplo-mat in the State Department. Serving on the Council’s Board ofTrustees for twelve years, Philip Habib had a special interest instudents who wanted to pursue international careers. His friendscreated this endowment in his memory.

The Schools Program

Asilomar and the Education Fund: An Investment in the FutureThanks to your generous contributions to the Council’s Education Fund,

the Schools Program is able to ensure that students and teachers benefit from

the same first-rate public programming that helps our members maintain a

vital connection to the world around them. Scholarship recipients attend

regular Council events and often have the opportunity to speak directly with

our speakers. Recent scholarship recipients have met with such influential

figures as Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense; David Zucchino,

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from the Los Angeles Times; and Martti

Ahtisaari, former president of Finland. The Schools Program also presents

students with the opportunity to spend a semester overseas through the Youth

for Understanding program and to attend the Council’s Annual Conference at

Asilomar. Thanks to you, over 4,500 students have had the opportunity to

attend Asilomar throughout its 59-year history. These students have gone on

to careers in diplomacy, politics, business, and education. Many are now

members of this Council and other World Affairs Councils throughout the United States, and some have even gone on to

serve as members of our staff and Board of Trustees.

Ten years ago, classroom teachers also began receiving scholarships to attend the Asilomar Conference. Since then, over 150

educators have attended the Conference on scholarship and, as a result, an estimated 15,000 students per year benefit from their

teachers’ opportunity to participate in this rich professional development experience. This year, we have encouraged high school

students and teachers to apply in teams in order to enhance the learning experience. As a result, the majority of high school

students at this year’s conference will be attending in the company of their teachers.

The ten teachers and seventy students receiving scholarships to this year’s Conference will add unique perspectives to the

discussions taking place throughout the weekend. Listen for their questions during the plenary sessions and for their remarks

in the workshops. We invite you to talk with them during receptions and meals—they are eager to learn from you.

A perfect opportunity to talk with scholarship recipients will be presented at the Saturday luncheon for Education Fund donors

and scholarship recipients. Donors and recipients will meet at specially marked tables in the Crocker Dining Room for lunch

and conversation. In the course of an hour, new friendships will be forged, career advice will be given, and a lively discussion of

Conference topics will take place. This year’s luncheon will also feature WorldQuest, a game designed to build global awareness

and bring together groups of teachers, students, and community leaders. This is an experience not to be missed!

It is not too late to donate to the Education Fund and take part in this special luncheon. You can make a contribution at the

Conference registration desk in the Administration Building. In return, we will place an apple sticker on your name badge, which

signifies that you have joined a special group of Council donors who have made an investment in the future and in the world.

For more information, call 415.293.4656, email schools@wacsf.org, or write to:

The World Affairs Council of Northern California, Schools Program, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 312, San Francisco, CA 94108.

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The Schools Program

The World Affairs Council of Northern California has awarded scholarships to the following students:

Omar Abi-Chahine, Mills High School

Robin Solarz Bellows, Oakland Technical High School

Ricky Bennett, Oakland Technical High School

Max Bernstein, Mills High School

Nathaniel Brandes, Merrill F. West High School

James D. Bruno, Merrill F. West High School

William Chan, Stanford University

Brian C. Chao, Mills High School

Jessie Chen, Mission San Jose High School

Julia Cross, University of California, Santa Cruz

Arthur Ryan Coleman, City College of San Francisco

Nicholas J. Corsiglia, City College of San Francisco

Aneliya Dimitrova, College of Marin

Satyajit Dutt, De Anza College

Gamaliel Z. Enriquez, San Francisco State University

Max Feld, Oakland Technical High School

Lily Frey, University of California, Berkeley

Ezra Louis Gale, Oakland Technical High School

Eva Goodyear, George Washington High School

Scott Edward Hartley, Stanford University

Zachary Garth Hendlin, University of California, Berkeley

Eric James Heimark, Menlo School

Jake Foster Heimark, Menlo School

Elizabeth Hira, Stanford University

Kerala Jane Hise, Oakland Technical High School

Peter Hong, Oakland Technical High School

John Harrington Humphrey, Las Positas College

Kathy Huynh, Oakland Technical High School

Mujeeb R. Khan, University of California, Berkeley

Teena Khatri, California State University, East Bay

Akira Kobayashi, Mills High School

Oren Kohn, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Nadiya V. Kravets, San Francisco State University

Laurel Kropuenske, Stanford University

Jungyul Kwon, California State University, Chico

Thomas R. Lane, Oakland Technical High School

Vu Van Le, Oakland Technical High School

Anna Lederman, Lowell High School

Laurel Lemontt, University of California, Berkeley

Sahil Mansuri, Mills High School

Zoe A. H. Marinkovich, San Francisco State University

Brock Mendel, University of California, Berkeley

Jasmine Monahelis, Las Positas College

Kfir Mordechay, San Francisco State University

Matt Murphy, Casa Grande High School

Bao Chau Nguyen, Oakland Technical High School

Abubaker Omar, De Anza College

Alex Park, Oakland Technical High School

Chris Pedersen, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gal Perelman, De Anza College

David Peterson, San Francisco State University

Stanislava Peycheva, University of California, Berkeley

Natasha Pirogovsky, University of California, Berkeley

Savilla Pitt, Las Positas College

Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas, Palo Alto High School

Arshia Randhawa, Las Positas College

Daniel Riveong, San Francisco State University

Nican J. Robinson, Oakland Technical High School

A. Justin Sabet-Peyman, Stanford University

Rene Schneeberger, University of California, Berkeley

Matthew Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley

Norullah M. Sharifi, Las Positas College

Clara Chung-wai Shih, Stanford University

Antonia Maria Stainbrook, Hastings College of the Law

Emmeline Sun, Mission San Jose High School

Asha Swaminathan, De Anza College

Lisa Uvarova, Lowell High School

Joy Whalen, Las Positas College

Liana Wong, Mills High School

Rebecca Zabel, Oakland Technical High School

Yuliya Zabyelina, California State University, East Bay

Carrie Zhao, Mission San Jose High School

The Schools Program

The Marin Chapter of the World Affairs Council of Northern California has awarded a scholarshipto the following student:

Augustin Motte, University of San Francisco

The World Affairs Council of Monterey has awarded scholarships to the following students:

Tyson Alldredge, Monterey Peninsula College

Jennifer Giroux, Monterey Institute for International Studies

Debika Pal, Monterey Institute for International Studies

Michael Tauriac, Monterey Peninsula College

The World Affairs Council of Sacramento has awarded scholarships to the following students and teachers:

Kyle Atwell, University of California, Davis

Corine Ramos, Sacramento High School

Kesham Zawacki, Sacramento High School

The World Affairs Council of San Joaquin hasawarded scholarships to the following students:

Mais Khourdagi, University of the Pacific

Kiril Storch, University of the Pacific

The World Affairs Council of Northern California has awarded scholarships to the following teachers:

John Anderson, Merrill F. West High School

Trevor Gardner, East Oakland Community High School

Darrah Hallowitz, Terra Linda High School

Sheryl Hott, Little Oak School

Nabila Massoumi, Horner Junior High School

Maureen McCorry, Palo Alto High School

John McMorris, San Ramon Valley High School

Jerry Underdal, Mission San Jose High School

Maryann Wolfe, Oakland Technical High School

Lynn Wu, Elmhurst Middle School

2005 Conference Scholarship Recipients

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Up to $199

Ms. Martha Allshouse-HullMrs. Elizabeth L. AshleyMs. Kerin BakerMrs. Joanna BallouDr. and Mrs. Joseph C. BarbacciaMs. Alice BartholomewMr. and Mrs. Conrad D. BreeceMs. Marilyn BremerMs. Ann CasperMr. Dick CastileMr. John Cashel and Mrs. Guyla CashelDr. Arthur Z. CerfMs. Roberta ChewMs. Simone Otus CoxeMs. Mary A. CulpMs. Beverly DaleMs. Pamela M. De FerrariMr. and Mrs. Gunther de GrootMs. Mary C. FalveyMs. Jean FowlerMr. Charles L. Frankel and Mrs. Diane FrankelMs. Meg FranklinDr. and Mrs.Walter GainesMs. Erin Pope GarciaMrs. Edna M. Getz

Mr. Robert E. GilchristMs. Jeanne K. GhiorzoeMs. Maudellen GreenhoodMs. Sylvie GriffithsMr. and Mrs. Arthur J. HaskellMr. and Mrs. Louis C. HaughneyMr. and Mrs. William A. HayneMs. Karen HeggieMr. and Mrs. Richard G. HeggieMr. Louis H. HeilbronMr. Robert HewettMrs. Margaret HillMr. and Mrs. Irwin S. HoffMr. and Mrs. R.H. HoltonMs. Eloise JonasMs. Ann JorgensenMr. and Mrs. Harry KendallMr. Richard KinyonMr. Richard KiwataMr. Alex LenahanMs. Elizabeth LewisMr. James T. LinfordMr. and Mrs. Donald C. LoughryMr. Clark W. Maser and Mrs. Margaret MaserMs. Virginia McClam

Dr. and Mrs. Paul MillerMr. and Mrs. Carl MountfordMrs. Jean Port Mrs. Elizabeth G. ProctorMr. and Mrs. Ted L. RauschMr. Malcolm Read and Mrs. Geraldine ReadMr. Frank Rettenberg Mr. Skip RhodesMs. Rosemary RoachMr. and Mrs. Mark Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. RobinsMr. and Mrs. William W. SchwarzerDr. Elizabeth Simpson and Mr. John C. WurrMr. and Mrs. Duane L. SewallMr. and Mrs. Charles SmuklerMr. and Mrs. Noel StevensMr. and Mrs. John StewartMr. and Mrs. John SutterMs. Marion TaylorMr. Rufus G. Thayer, Jr.Mr. Ted Tight and Mrs. Betty TightMr. and Mrs. Rudie W. TrettenMr. and Mrs. Terry VogtMr. and Mrs. Richard C. WaughDr. and Mrs. David Weisenberg

A Special Thanks to our Donors from the Monterey and Sacramento Affiliated Councils

Seiji AizawaCraig AnapolMary Arnn Margaret BatesMary BoykenMarilyn BridgwoodJohn and Alice CarleyJosephine CrawfordJean DerrRobert and Barbara EastmanRosemarie George

Ruth HartmannKenneth and Anne HelmsRobert and Shirley JasterJoseph and Jane JewettJosephine KaleRichard and Renee KezirianAnne Reese KmetovicPhyllis and Robert LockwoodVictoria and Thomas LoganDouglas and Janet MooersLloyd L. Morain

Martha MyszakDon and Laura NewmarkPeter and Sari PowlesA. J. and Patricia ShandStuart SmitsRita StringariPeter and Anne ThorpGabrielle WaltersGabriele WindgasseSuzanne and Glynn Wood

The World Affairs Council Education Fund

Contributions to the 2005 Education Fund * (continued)

$1,000 and Above

Mr. Robert Bridges and Mrs. Alice BridgesMr. A.W. Clausen and Mrs. Helen ClausenMr. Arthur J. Collingsworth, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer FleishhackerMr. and Mrs. George B. JamesMr. Saul L. Katz and Mrs. Dorothy KatzMr. and Mrs. Angus A. MacNaughtonMr. Harvey Masonek Mrs. Maria W. StarrMr. Rex VaughanMr. Mason Willrich and Mrs. Wendy Willrich

$500 to $999

Ms. Muriel W. AdcockDr. A.T. AndersenMr. J. D. BonneyMr. and Mrs. William E. HenleyMr. and Mrs. David W. LyonMr. and Mrs. Arthur B. SchultzMrs. Nicolas ThacherDr. and Mrs. Theodore van Ravenswaa

$200 to $499

Mr. Louis deK. Belden

Mrs. Elsie R. Carr

Ms. Claudine Cheng

Ms. Christine Clark

Mr. Greg Druehl

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick K. Duhring

Ms. Elizabeth Farnsworth

Mr. William P. Fuller and

Ms. Jennifer L. Beckett

Mr. and Mrs. William G. Gaede

Mr. Bernie J. Hargadon and

Ms. Jill Dinwiddie

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Henley

Ms. Nancy A. Jarvis and

Mr. Stephen R. Farrand

Mr. Craig Heimark and Mrs. Libby Heimark

Mr. Jan Kalicki

Mr. and Mrs. J. Burke Knapp

Mr. John Kirkwood and

Mrs. Amanda Kirkwood

Mr. Ralph Kuiper

Ms. Jeanne A. McHugh

Mr. Tom Miller

Mr. Chuck Mink and Mrs. Carol Mink

Mr. R. Douglas Norby

Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Olive

Mr. Wayne R. Phillips

Mr. Raymond R. Sullivan

and Mrs. Shauna M. Rose

Mr. and Mrs. Max Thelen, Jr.

Ms. Marsha Vande Berg

Every year, the Council’s Annual Conference is enriched

by the active participation of outstanding students and teachers from

across Northern California. Their attendance is made possible by your

generous contributions to the World Affairs Council Education Fund.

Due to recent budget cuts at the federal, state, and local levels, pro-

grams that expose our students to the larger world are at risk. But the

importance of international education through courses in world history,

cultures, and foreign languages taught by well-trained teachers, and

through direct student contact with national and international leaders is

more important now than ever before. The Council’s Schools Program

works to fill this critical gap in international education by directly reaching

students and teachers through the Asilomar Scholarship Program, the

Youth For Understanding overseas exchange program, and a scholarship

program allowing students to attend regular Council programs.

For more information, please contact the Schools Program at 415.293.4656 or through email at schools@wacsf.org.

The World Affairs Council gratefully acknowledges the leadership of Dr. Gerald West, Education Committee

Chair; Mr. John Duff, Education Fund Chair; Ms. Wendy Willrich, Asilomar Scholarship Committee Chair;

and the entire Education and Scholarship Committees.

We also thank the following generous donors who have given to the 2005 Education Fund: *

The World Affairs Council Education Fund

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and Mrs. Sharon Rettenberg

* As of April 8, 2005

21 May 1967 The United States and EuropeWilliam Matson Roth, Chair; Walter J. Stoessel, Roland deKergorlay,Miriam Camps, Alfred Puhan, Henry Brandon.

22 May 1968 The United States and the Communist WorldsRoger Heyns, Chair; Eugene V. Rostow. A.R. Gale, Anthony Hartley,Corneliu Bogdan, Robert Scalapino, Sir Denis Brogan.

23 May 1969 The Making of American Foreign PolicyWilliam Matson Roth, Chair; Joseph Kraft, Harry McPherson, Jr.,Carl Marcy, Hans Morgenthau, Bromley Smith.

24 May 1970 Mass Media, Public Opinion, Foreign PolicyCharles J. Hitch, Chair; Douglass Cater, Robert Amory, Robert C.Christopher, William Rivers, Barry Zorthian, Sherman B. Chickering.

25 May 1971 New Order in EuropeAmb. Fulton Freeman, Chair; George Ball, J. Steven Watson, GordonWright, Brewster Morris, Werner Imhoof, Ray Cline.

26 May 1972 An American Foreign Policy for the ’70sC. Easton Rothwell Chair; Max Frankel, William D. Eberle, John Karefa-Smart, Harlan Cleveland, Alfred Jenkins.

27 May 1973 New Realities of Power in AsiaDean McHenry, Chair; Stanley Hoffman, Harrison Salisbury, Edwin O. Reischauer.

28 May 1974 Scarcity, Security, Survival: Challenges for an InterdependentWorldEmmett Soloman, Chair; Edward P. Morgan, Philippe de Seynes,Ragaei El Mallakh, Lucius D. Battle, Seyom Brown.

29 May 1975 Whatever Happened to the Super Powers?Richard Lyman, Chair; Hans Morgenthau, James Grant, Amb.Neville Kanakaratne, Paul Zinner, Sen. Charles Mathias, KingmanBrewster.

30 May 1976 Revolutionary America in a World in RevoltPaul Zinner Chair; Nathan Glazer, C. Clyde Ferguson, Ali Mazrui, Ralph Pfeiffer, C. William Kontos.

31 May 1977 Challenges to National Security: Defense Détente, DisarmamentJohn H. Bunzel, Chair; Graham Allison, Roman Kolkowicz, BjoernEgge, Herbert Scoville, Les Aspin, Henry Rowen, Joseph C. Harsch.

32 May 1978 Africa: Crisis of Power, Development & Human RightsCaspar W. Weinberger, Chair; Amb. Franklin Williams, Tom Farer, Amb.Paul Bomani, Elliot Berg, Donald Woods, Jack Penn, Helen Kitchen.

33 May 1979 China, the Soviet Union and the United States:Interactions and Impacts in East AsiaWeldon B. Gibson, Chair; Lucian Pye, Makoto Momoi, GeorgeThomson, Richard Holbrooke, Allen Whiting, Drew Middleton,Donald Zagoria.

34 May 1980 Can the United States Still Lead? Coping with the Oil CrisisWalter E. Hoadley, Chair; John Grimond, Thomas Schelling, Theodore Eliot, Jr., Donald Mills.

35 May 1981 The U.S. and Latin AmericaAmb. Philip Habib, Chair; Roger Hansen, Alfonso Robelo, RobertCox, Alan Riding, Thomas Atkinson.

36 May 1982 Western Europe and the United States: Alliance in Jeopardy?Ira Michael Heyman, Chair; Norman Graebner, Flora Lewis, Richard Cooper, Theo Sommer, Walter Stoessel.

37 May 83 The Middle East: Can We Have Equity and Equilibrium?Donald Kennedy, Chair; Brian Urquhart, Ira Lapidus, Charles Issawi,Harold Saunders.

38 May 1984Arms Control and the U.S.-Soviet Relationship:The Search for Peaceful SolutionsMary Metz, Chair; Leslie Gelb, Dimitri Simes, Marion Donhoff, Kenneth Adelman.

39 May 1985 The U.S. and Southeast Asia: Focus on the Asian CountriesDorman Commons, Chair; Philip Habib, Tommy Koh, Adm. William Crowe, Jr., Ghazali Shafie, Morton Abramowitz.

40 May 1986 International Trade, Finance, and Investment:Can the U.S. Compete and Cooperate Effectively?Chia-Wei Woo, Chair; Lester Thurow, Nicolas Ardito Barletta,Donald Ephlin, William Milam.

41 May 1987 The U.S. in Central America: Interests and ConflictRobert Maynard, Chair; Abraham Lowenthal, Margaret Daly Hayes, Rainer Steckhan, Jorge Lamport Rodil, Michael Armacost,Stephen Rosenfeld.

42 April 1988 The U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: Changing Societies, Changing PoliciesDavid Gardner, Chair; Brent Scowcroft, Gail Lapidus, ArthurHartman, William Odom, Theodore Sorensen, Nicolai Smeliov.

43 April 1989 The Middle East: Turmoil and HopeRobert Stevens, Chair; Hirsch Goodman, Judith Kipper, MartinIndyk, Rashid Khalidi, Abba Eban, William Quandt.

Conference at Asilomar: ChronologyConference at Asilomar: Chronology

1 December 1947American Policy in a Divided WorldMonroe Deutsch, Chair; Bernard Drzewieski, Peter Odegard.

2 December 1948Positive Alternatives to Communism J. Paul Leonard, Chair; O. Meredith Wilson, Raymond Swing.

3 December 1949 Facing the Facts in ChinaCarl Spaeth, Chair; Mary C. Wright, Lucius Porter, Sen. William F. Knowland, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Roger Lapham.

4 December 1950 Freedom in Peril–The Struggle Between the U.S. & Russia in Europe & Asia: How Do We Win It?Herbert D. Armstrong, Chair; Julian Towster, Francis Russell, Paul C. Smith.

5 December 1951At the Crossroads in the Middle EastHarley C. Stevens, Chair; Harvey Hall, Christina Harris, HaroldFisher, Edwin Wright, James T. Duce, Walter Levy.

6 December 1952 Our Foreign Economic Policy—Its Impact at Home & AbroadCharles Wheeler, Chair; Milton Katz, Thomas Blaisdell, HerbertFurth, Daniel Bell, Henry Drath.

7 October 1953Twentieth Century Colonialism—Out of Changes in an Old Order, New Problems for AmericaThomas Blaisdell, Chair; James Yen, Mehdi BenAboud, GordonWright, Archibald Campbell, Harold Fisher, Henry Byroade.

8 April 1954 Hot Issues of the Cold Peace—Areas of Friction with the Communist WorldAllan Charles, Chair; Ernest Gross, Walter Stoessel, Kenneth Hansen,Robert Blum, Gen. Victor Odlum, Amb. James Barrington.

9 May 1955 Stresses & Strains in the Free World—Can we Coexist with our Friends?C. Easton Rothwell, Chair; Moekarto Notowidigdo, Sen. MikeMansfield, George V. Allen.

10 April 1956 U.S. Foreign Policy in 1956—What Are Our Aims and How Do We Achieve Them?Turner McBaine, Chair; Eric A. Johnston, Carl Marcy, GeorgeHellyer, Jesse Tapp.

11 May 1957 Aid, Arms, Alliances & Agreements:How Can They Best Serve to Secure Peace?Alvin Rockwell, Chair; Sir Pierson Dixon, Henry Wiens, Frank Nash,Whitelaw Reid.

12 Apr 1958 The International Atom—Impact of Nuclear Energy on World AffairsKenneth Pitzer, Chair; Glenn Seaborg, Stafford Warren, C.W.LaPierre, Henry Kissinger, Adm. Lewis Strauss.

13 May 59 The Challenge of Rising Nations—America’s ResponseE. Finley Carter, Chair; Howard K. Smith, Sen. John F. Kennedy,Tom Mboya, Arthur H. Dean, Paul G. Hoffman.

14 May 1960 Competitive Coexistence—Dilemma of the ’60sRobert Gordon Sproul, Chair; Walt Rostow, William Kintner, RichardHottelet, Charles Malik, Stuart Hannon, Paul Bryan, Dean Rusk.

15 May 1961 The Americas—From Neighbors to PartnersRobert C. Kirkwood, Chair: Deane Malott, Herbert Kaplow, Philip A. Ray, Ignacio Copete Lizarralde, Eulalia Lobo.

16 May 1962 The Atlantic Community: In Review and in RetrospectJ.E. Wallace Sterling, Chair; Denis Healey, Marshall Shulman, David Shoenbrun, Sir Leslie Munro, James Reston, Pierre Uri, W.Randolph Burgess.

17 May 1963 Asia: Challenge to the United StatesEdward W. Strong, Chair; Kinsley Davis, Robert Scalapino, U. AlexisJohnson, Sir Richard Allen, Robert Boyd, G.D. Birla, J. Burke Knapp.

18 May 1964 The United States in the World Economy: A ReappraisalRansom Cook, Chair; David Bell, Tom Killefer, Marriner Eccles, John Midgley, Gen. Lucius Clay.

19 May 1965 Production Vs. ReproductionGen. William Draper, Chair; Sen. Kenneth Keating, Edgar Berman,Father Robert Drinan, Henry Heald, Edward Teller.

20 May 1966 The United States and AsiaClark Kerr, Chair; Haydn Williams, Henry Steele Commager, J.Burke Knapp, Joseph C. Harsch, Raul Manglapus, U. Alexis Johnson.

a continuing tradition

The Annual Conference at Asilomar

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The World Affairs Council Board and Staff

Advisory Committee

Ken AlwynNusha AskariRichard C. AtkinsonJoanna R. BallouKristin L. BartokLouis de K. BeldenDoug Bereuter

*W. Richard BinghamCoit D. BlackerA. Lee BlitchJohn A. BohnJ. Dennis BonneyRonald E. Bornstein

*Conrad D. BreeceHarold BrooksCaroline K. BrownstoneAnnette J. Campbell-White

* Iris S. ChanClaudine Cheng

* Jeff ClarkeA.W. ClausenJaleh DaieMark DannerMichael DasherJohn A. De Luca

*Amy W. de RhamFrederick J. Dorey

*William H. Draper, IIIJohn M. Duff, Jr.Theodore L. Eliot, IIIMary C. FalveyDavid M. FlahertyCharles L. FrankelWilliam P. FullerWilliam G. Gaede

*Richard N. GoldmanRichard J. GuggenhimeAnn HanhamBernie Hargadon

* Louis H. Heilbron*Martha M. Hertelendy

Auren HoffmanRuss Holdstein

*George B. James, IINancy A. Jarvis

* Jan H. KalickiLinda KendallAmanda KirkwoodKristen KohRalph A. Kuiper

*Gail W. LapidusSally Lilienthal

*David W. Lyon*Angus A. MacNaughton

James ManyikaClark W. MaserNagesh S. MhatreMichael NachtRuediger Naumann-EtienneNguyen Qui DucR. Douglas NorbyJohn C. OppermanSimone Otus CoxeBetty OverhoffLinda Parker PenningtonMagan C. PatelMary Noel PepysLarry PippinHarriet Meyer QuarréWilliam ReillyFrank RettenbergSkip RhodesElizabeth Rindskopf Parker

* Rosemary RoachFred A. RodriguezScott D. SaganMichael SchwabPeter SchwartzCharlotte Mailliard Shultz

*S. Brooks Shumway*Maria Starr

Jackson StrombergDarian W. SwigPeter TarnoffMax Thelen, Jr.John Elting TreatMarsha Vande BergJohn S. Wadsworth, Jr.

* Jane WalesJo Anne WallaceWilford H. Welch

*Gerald I. WestMason Willrich

Nominees to the BoardRichard M. ChongFrank CurrieKevin T. HaroffFrank M. JordanWendy Paskin-JordanAnne E. KennerDavid C. KennyHarvey MasonekJeanine M. SamuelRichard SklarTerry Vogt

Jane Wales, President & CEO

AdministrationBrooks Shumway Executive Vice PresidentGalen Ages , Assistant to the PresidentJesus Gonzalez, Assistant Building ManagerJames Hurst, Asilomar Conference Registrar

Finance DepartmentJake Ocampo, Director of Finance & TechnologyJun Reina, Finance Administrator

Development & Corporate ProgramsMichael Lawrence, Director of Development & Corporate ProgramsSusana Rodriguez, Development Associate & North American ForumProgram Officer

Marketing & MembershipScott Kleinman, Vice President for Marketing and MembershipJacob Glenn-Levin, Membership ManagerKay Sato, Marketing Officer

Board of Trustees * Executive Committee

Staff Members

Co-ChairsWilliam J. PerryGeorge P. Shultz

Michael H. ArmacostWillie L. Brown, Jr.Gerhard CasperJohn ChambersElizabeth FarnsworthJames C. GaitherF. Warren HellmanChong-Moon Lee

Michael McCurryLewis E. PlattKanwal RekhiArun SarinOrville SchellRoselyne C. SwigBrayton Wilbur, Jr.

OfficersGeorge B. James, II, ChairmanJane Wales, President & CEOWilliam J. Perry, Co-Chair, Advisory CommitteeGeorge P. Shultz, Co-Chair, Advisory CommitteeRichard N. Goldman, Vice ChairMartha M. Hertelendy, Vice ChairMaria Starr, Vice ChairAngus A. MacNaughton, SecretaryJeff Clarke, TreasurerWilliam H. Draper, III, Immediate Past ChairmanS. Brooks Shumway, Vice President & COO

Program DepartmentCarla Thorson, Vice President for Public ProgramsJoshua Jendryka, Program OfficerCourtney Riggle, Program OfficerCharity Espritu, Program AssociateMary Anne McGill, Program Officer & Manager of Library Services

Global Philanthropy ProgramSuzy Antounian, Vice President for Special ProgramsStacey Fish, GPF Program OfficerLeila Bozorg, GPF Database Manager & Conference Registrar

Schools ProgramPayal Dalal, Schools Program OfficerKristi Komendant, Schools Program AssociatePete Hammer, Director of BAGEP

The World Affairs Council of Northern California

44 April 1990 Choices for ChinaRobert Scalapino, Chair; Winston Lord, Dwight Perkins, StanleyLubman, Michel Oksenberg, Harry Harding, Douglas Paal.

45 April 1991 The Changing Face of EuropeTheodore L. Eliot, Jr., Chair; Shirley Williams, Joseph Joffe, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Ivan Tyulin, Marek Wierbouski, Richard Buxbaum, Robert Blackwill.

46 May 1992 The United States’ Rose in a New Global EraRichard Lyman, Chair; Condoleezza Rice, Richard Buxbaum, VictorLi, Robert Hunter, Amb. Carla Hills, William Hyland, JackMendelsohn, William Rusher, Scott Sagan.

47 May 1993 The Environment and Population: Can Earth Sustain Us?Janet Holmgren McKay, Chair; Timothy Weiskel, Eugene Skolnikoff,Sharon Camp, Piere Landell-Mills, Garrett Hardin, Jaime Lerner,Timothy Wirth.

48 April 1994 U.S., Japan, and Asia: Changing Societies, Changing PoliciesRobert Scalapino, Chair; Yoichi Funabashi, Hiroshi Kitamura, YurikoKoike, Gerald Curtis, Michel Oksenberg, James Fallows, Ezra Vogel, Glen Fukushima.

49 May 1995 Managing World Chaos: Is America Responsible?Mary Bitterman, Chair; Chester Crocker, Chas W. Freeman, Jr., EnidSchoettle, Raymond Shonholtz, Jr., Ted Galen Carpenter, Peter Tarnoff.

50 May 1996 Hard Copy or Hard News? Media and Foreign AffairsRobert Corrigan, Chair; Hodding Carter, James Hoge, HaynesJohnson, Barrie Dunsmore, Orville Schell, Sanford Ungar.

51 May 1997 China: The Next Superpower?Harry Harding, Chair; Orville Schell, Ross Munro, Nancy Pelosi, Chang-Lin Tien, Lowell Ditmer, Robert Kapp.

52 May 1998 The Great Game: Russia and the Future of EurasiaAmb. David J. Fischer, Chair; Coit Blacker, Andrei Melville, Gail Lapidus, Vitaly Naumkin, William Perry, George Breslauer, Michael McFaul, Lilia Shevtsova.

53 May 1999 Korea: One People, Two WorldsMary Bitterman, Chair; Michel Oksenberg, David Steinberg, DesaixAnderson, Douglas Paal, Consul General Hitoshi Tanaka, GordonFlake, Han Seung Soo, Kim Myong Chol, Dr. Willaim Perry, Amb.Ronald Lehman, Peter Hayes, Clay Moltz, Chae-Jin Lee, Victor Cha,Neal Keny-Guyer, Meredith Woo-Cumings, Casimir Yost.

54 May 2000 U.S. Interests, Roles, and Responsibilities in the 21st CenturyCharles William Maynes, Chair; Coit Blacker, Robert Scalapino,Sumit Ganguly, Mary O’Hara Devereaux, Abraham Sofaer, StephenStedman, Sandra Coliver, General Lee Butler, Robert McNamara,William J. Perry, David Lyon, James Gustaeve Speth.

55 May 2001 Globalization: Going Global in the Information AgeWilliam Draper, III, and Jane Wales, Co-Chairs; George Soros, MarkMalloch Brown, Beverly Crawford, Elizabeth Farnsworth, OlafGroth, Jay Harris, Adam Klein, Amb. Ronald Lehman, William J.Perry, Amb. Kamalesh Sharma.

56 May 2002 The Many Facts of IslamOrville Schell, Chair; Paul Wolfowitz, John Voll, Bruce Lawrence,John Burns, Joel Beinin, Hakan Yavuz, Barbara Metcalf, Julia Clancy-Smith, James Gelvin, Shibley Telhami, Ali Gheissari, M. NazifShahrani, Vali Reza Nasr, Donald Emmerson, Ahmad Dallal, BarbaraBodine, Thomas Simons Jr.

57 May 2003From Pakistan to Kazakhstan—The Great UnknownMichael Armacost, Chair; Joseph Biden, Olivier Roy, Barnett Rubin,Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Vitaly Naumkin, Bates Gill, Mustafa Aydin,Steven Mann, Julia Nanay, Daene McKinney, Anara Tabyshalieva,Michael Ochs, Rifaat Hussein, William Courtney, Gen. Jack Sheehan,Martha Brill Olcott.

58 May 2004Defining Leadership: The Role of the United States in the WorldTom Campbell, Chair; Leon Fuerth, Robert Hunter, Martin Walker,Thomas Hubbard, Charles Kupchan, Elena Borislavova Poptodorova,Federico Rampini, Jean Marie Guéhenno, James Dobbins, RobertPerito, Laith Kubba, Barry Eichengreen, Dan Yankelovich, MarttiAhtisaari, Walter Russell Mead.

59 April 2005Meeting the Challenges of the Middle EastMichael Nacht, Chair; Peter Schwartz, Marina Ottaway, ClovisMaksoud, Judith Miller, Mark Danner, Joseph Kéchichian, ShaiFeldman, Diana Buttu, Rev. Bryan Hehir, Mohamed Shaker, GeoffreyKemp, Flynt Leverett.

Conference at Asilomar: Chronology

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Don Loughry, Los Altos, CA

Alice Loughry, Los Altos, CA

Bruce Lowry, Mill Valley, CA

Janet Lowry, Menlo Park, CA

Ed Lowry, Carmel, CA

Joan Lowry, Carmel ,CA

Richard Lynn, San Francisco, CA

Evadna Lynn, San Francisco, CA

David Lyon, San Francisco, CA

Marine Mardirian, Pleasanton, CA

Fred Martin, San Francisco, CA

Shirlee Martin, San Francisco, CA

Clark Maser, Ross, CA

Margaret Maser, Ross, CA

Virginia McClam, Foster City, CA

Mickey McGuire, Tracy, CA

Maria McGuire, Tracy, CA

Jeanne McHugh, Kensington, CA

Greg McKenney, San Francisco, CA

Paul Miller, Portola Valley, CA

Tom Miller, Alamo, CA

Pat Miller, Alamo, CA

Michael Molkentin, Hayward, CA

John Montero, Sacramento, CA

William Moore, Valley Springs, CA

Carl Mountford, Concord, CA

Gwaltney Mountford, Concord, CA

Eva Nash-Isaac, San Francisco, CA

Donald Newmark, Carmel, CA

Virginia Olesen, San Francisco, CA

Jack Olive, San Anselmo, CA

Mary Olive, San Anselmo, CA

Berniece Patterson, Moraga, CA

Pat Patterson, Moraga, CA

Robert Payne, Salinas, CA

Anne Peskoe, San Francisco, CA

Wayne Phillips, Los Altos, CA

James Poley, San Francisco, CA

Erin Pope Garcia, Novato, CA

Jean Port, El Cerrito, CA

Mary Potter, San Francisco, CA

Elizabeth Proctor, Menlo Park, CA

Charlotte Prozan, San Francisco, CA

Anthony Prud’homme, San Francisco, CA

Mary Prud’homme, San Francisco, CA

Donna Rabin, Berkeley, CA

Ingrid Radkey, Berkeley, CA

Tom Ralph, Salinas, CA

Sally Randall, Atherton, CA

Charles Randall, Atherton, CA

Ted Rausch, Burlingame, CA

Evelyn Rausch, Burlingame, CA

Frank Rettenberg, San Rafael, CA

Sharon Rettenberg, San Rafael, CA

Skip Rhodes, San Ramon, CA

Rosemary Roach, San Francisco, CA

Mark Robertson, Richmond, CA

Barbara Robertson, Richmond, CA

Robert Ronald, San Mateo, CA

Patricia Ronald, San Mateo, CA

Elizabeth Ross, Atherton, CA

William Rossi, San Francisco, CA

Rena Rossi, San Francisco, CA

Margaret Rourke, Piedmont, CA

Harry Rowe, San Francisco, CA

Karl Schimmer, Sausalito, CA

Gerda Schimmer, Sausalito, CA

Rebecca Sheuerman, Cupertino, CA

Arthur Schultz, Incline Village, NV

Dale Silver, San Francisco, CA

Elizabeth Simpson, Saratoga, CA

Suse Smetana, San Francisco, CA

David Stadtner, Stockton, CA

Tasha Stadtner, Stockton, CA

Maria Starr, San Mateo, CA

Jack Steller, Berkeley, CA

Gussie Stewart, San Francisco, CA

Jack Stromberg, Mill Valley, CA

Dave Styles, San Francisco, CA

Barbara Styles, San Francisco, CA

John Sutter, San Rafael, CA

Doris Sutter, San Rafael, CA

John Sutter, Oakland, CA

Ellie Sutter, Oakland, CA

Richard Swain, San Francisco, CA

Marcy Swain, San Francisco, CA

Sara Tajeldin, San Bruno, CA

Marion Taylor, Oakland, CA

Rufus Thayer, Tiburon, CA

Kimberly Tominson, Dublin, CA

Darrell Tornow, Petaluma, CA

Kathleen Tornow, Petaluma, CA

Shelagh Udovch, Piedmont, CA

Karl Uebel, Benicia, CA

Ann Ulrey, Pebble Beach, CA

Nancy van Ravenswaay, Belvedere Tiburon, CA

Nancy Veitch, Atherton, CA

Julie Veitch, Atherton, CA

Terry Vogt, San Francisco, CA

Mary Vogt, San Francisco, CA

Judy Webb, Belvedere, CA

Kimberly Weichel, Tiburon, CA

Carl Weichel, Tiburon, CA

David Weisenberg, Atherton, CA

Kathleen Weisenberg, Atherton, CA

Nancy White, San Francisco, CA

Don Wolf, Los Gatos, CA

Anita Wolf, Los Gatos, CA

Connie Wolfe, Napa, CA

Donna Worthington, Benicia, CA

John Wurr, Saratoga, CA

Bill Zinn, San Francisco, CA

Nancy Zinn, San Francisco, CA

Rita Zwerdling, Moraga, CA

Conference Participants

Muriel Adcock, Larkspur, CA

Bedros Afeyan, Pleasanton, CA

Katharine Anderson, Santa Rosa, CA

Marjorie Atkinson, Salinas, CA

Jean Ann Augsburger, Portola Valley, CA

Robert Augsburger, Portola Valley, CA

JoAnn Aviel, San Mateo, CA

Shirley Bates, San Francisco, CA

Louis Belden, San Francisco CA

Inka Benton, Belvedere Tiburon, CA

Marvin Bernstein, San Francisco, CA

Frank Berry, Los Altos, CA

Liz Berry, Los Altos, CA

Donna Bjorn, San Anselmo, CA

J. Dennis Bonney, San Francisco, CA

Mark Borowsky, Dublin, CA

Marilyn Bremer, Reno, NV

Sally Brew, Los Altos, CA

Charles Caviness, Tiburon, CA

Joan Caviness, Tiburon, CA

A.W. Clausen, San Francisco, CA

Helen Clausen, San Francisco, CA

Dov Cohen, San Leandro, CA

Judy Cox, Oakland, CA

Simone Coxe, Palo Alto, CA

Mary Culp, San Francisco, CA

Beverly Dale, Alexandra, VA

Alvin Davidson. Stockton, CA

Marcia Davidson, Stockton, CA

Anne Davis, San Francisco, CA

Jane Delfendahl, Sacramento, CA

Alma De Bisschop, Walnut Creek, CA

Lois De Domenico, Piedmont, CA

Pam De Ferrari, San Rafael, CA

Vera De Ferrari, San Rafael, CA

Gunther De Groot, Lafayette, CA

K De Groot, Lafayette, CA

Julie Hirshen, San Francisco, CA

Catherine Dinnean, Piedmont, CA

Larry Dinnean, Piedmont. CA

Robert Dinsmore, Sacramento, CA

David Dionisi, Davis, CA

Bill Draper, Atherton, CA

Phyllis Draper, Atherton, CA

Harald Drews, Richmond, CA

Greg Druehl, Cupertino, CA

Peter Dwares, San Francisco, CA

Carol Edlund, Walnut Creek, CA

Bernard Ellis, San Francisco, CA

Cinda Ely, Kensington, CA

Duane Ericson, Santa Barbara, CA

Laura Ericson, Santa Barbara, CA

Peter Evans, Berkeley, CA

Henry Evers, San Francisco, CA

Emily Evers, San Francisco, CA

Mary Falvey, San Francisco, CA

Richard Farrell, San Rafael, CA

Abigail Farrell, San Rafael, CA

Molly Fleischman, San Francisco, CA

Andrew Fleischman, San Francisco, CA

Jean Fowler, San Francisco, CA

Charles Frankel, San Francisco, CA

Dore’ Gabby, San Francisco, CA

James Gabby, San Francisco, CA

Walter Gaines, Hillsborough, CA

Beverly Gaines, Hillsborough, CA

Betty Gerard, Palo Alto, CA

William Gilbert, Berkeley, CA

Robert Gilchrist, Santa Rosa, CA

Violet Ginsburg, San Francisco, CA

Doris Hand, Stockton, CA

Kevin Haroff, Greebrae, CA

Wilson Harwood, Portola Valley, CA

Lee Harwood, Portola Valley, CA

Inta Hasenkamp, Hillsborough, CA

Bruce Hasenkamp, Hillsborough, CA

Arthur Haskell, Oakland, CA

Marge Haskell, Oakland, CA

Richard Heggie, Orinda, CA

Bea Heggie, Orinda, CA

Jennifer Heggie, Orinda, CA

Karen Heggie, Mountain View, CA

Libby Heimark, Palo Alto, CA

Craig Heimark, Palo Alto, CA

Sarah Hendrickson, Berkeley, CA

Julie Hirshen, San Francisco, CA

William Henley, San Mateo, CA

Irwin Hoff, San Francisco, CA

Agatha Hoff, San Francisco CA

Marie Hogan, Belvedere Tiburon, CA

Molly Hoyt, San Francisco, CA

Mary Hurd, Berkeley, CA

Peter Hurd, Berkeley, CA

Barbara Husak, San Anselmo, CA

Brigitte Jaensch, Carmichael, CA

Susan Jamart, Berkeley, CA

George James, San Francisco, CA

Faith Jansen, San Francisco, CA

Gary Joe, San Francisco, CA

Ann Jorgensen, San Francisco, CA

Joyce Kaneshiro, San Francisco, CA

Saul Katz, San Francisco, CA

David Kenny, San Francisco, CA

Gay Kenny, Santa Rosa, CA

Marshall Kent, Napa, CA

Carolyn Killefer, San Francisco, CA

Dick Kinyon, Novato, CA

Zack Kinyon, Novato, CA

John Kirkwood, San Francisco, CA

Amanda Kirkwood, San Francisco, CA

Burke Knapp, Portola Valley, CA

Elise Knapp, Portola Valley, CA

Bill Kramer, San Carlos, CA

Anita Kramer, San Carlos, CA

Cameron Kramlich, San Francisco, CA

Ralph Kuiper, Los Altos, CA

Carol Kuiper, Los Altos, CA

Sari Kulberg, Oakland, CA

Beatrice Kushner, San Francisco, CA

Ray Kutz, Orinda, CA

Karen Lassen, Berkeley, CA

Chuck Laurenson, Tiburon, CA

Polly Laurenson, Tiburon, CA

Nora Leishman, San Francisco, CA

Werner Lewald, Berkeley, CA

Gisela Lewald, Berkeley, CA

Joan Lewis, San Francisco, CA

Frances Lilienthal, San Francisco, CA

James Lilienthal, San Francisco, CA

Dean Lindsay, Sonoma, CA

Mary Lindsay, Sonoma, CA

James Linford, San Francisco, CA

Conference Participants: We are all here

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Conference Headquarters: The World Affairs Council maintains aregistration and information desk where all participants can check in and make inquiries about the Conference or about the Council ingeneral. The registration and information desk is located along thelong wall on the ocean side of the Administration Building.

The Asilomar Conference Center has its own front desk where conference participants may obtain information about the Asilomarfacility, get room keys, purchase individual meal tickets, and checkout at the end of the conference. It is located at the south end of the Administration Building.

Badges: Conference badges should be worn at all times. Your conference badge serves as an admission pass to all programs and must be shown to gain entry. Asilomar issues its own cards foradmission to the dining hall. Neither badges nor meal cards can be replaced or transferred.

Meals: Meals will be served in Crocker Dining Hall at the times printed in the conference program. Conference participants who have requested special meals other than a standard vegetarian fareshould make that request known when picking up meal cards duringthe registration; you have the opportunity at that time to visit with the chef in Crocker Dining Hall.

When entering the dining hall, please wait to be seated by the hostess in accordance with Asilomar procedure; one table must befilled before seating begins at the next table. Bells will ring ten minutesprior to, and at the meal hour. No one can be served in the dining hall if they arrive after meal hours. Please print your name on your mealcard. If you lose it, there is a chance it will be found and returned toyou. Missed meals cannot be refunded.

Meal tickets are provided to all participants when they check-in atthe conference registration desk. Asilomar will prepare box luncheson Sunday for everyone attending the third day of the conference.

Registration Hours: Hours for the World Affairs Council conference registration desk at the Administration Building will be:

Friday 3:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Saturday 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Parking: Because the Asilomar parking facilities are limited, on-grounds parking is reserved for resident participants. Off-grounds participants may park along Asilomar Boulevard or other city streets. Citations will be issued on all parking violations, and these citations are enforced.

Smoking: Asilomar Conference Center has adopted a no-smokingpolicy in all buildings. Smoking is only permitted outdoors.

Symposia & Workshops: Please register for a specific breakout sessionat the breakout table near the registration desk. Participants who havenot registered will be admitted on a space-available basis only.

Social Hours: There are four principal social gatherings throughoutthe weekend. On Friday afternoon, from 5:00–6:00 PM, there is a welcome reception in Seascape. Following the general sessionson Friday and Saturday evenings, at approximately 10:00 PM,receptions will be held in the Seascape area. Invitations areenclosed in the conference packet.

On Saturday at 5:00 PM, Sunset Champagne Receptions will take place in Kiln and Heath.

At all our events where alcohol is served, non-alcoholic beverageswill also be available. In accordance with state laws, no one under21 will be served alcohol. Badges indicating an under-21 statushave been made available for conference participants.

Messages: Messages for participants may be posted on the message board near the Asilomar Front Desk in the AdministrationBuilding.Guests expecting calls should check this board. The frontdesk number is 831.372.8016 or dial 0 from your building phone.

Jitney Service: Asilomar has a jitney available for use by on-site residents at no charge. To request jitney service dial Extension 2232 from any house phone.

Check-out Time: The Asilomar Conference Center requires that youcheck out by 12:00 noon on Sunday. Another full conference groupchecks in immediately after the Council checks out. Those who checkout late may be fined by Asilomar. We suggest packing all belongingsbefore the Sunday morning plenary session.

Asilomar Grounds Regulations: Please read the “Welcome toAsilomar” flyer posted in all rooms. Blankets, pillows, towels, etc.provided by Asilomar should not be taken out of the rooms. TheCouncil is charged for all damaged and missing items from the lodgings. Please be considerate.

Camping is not allowed on the conference grounds, in recreationalvehicles, or on the beach, nor are sleeping bags allowed in theAsilomar lodges. Violators will be subject to fines. Asilomar’s 107 acres are dedicated to the natural environment. Please walk in designated areas only. The dunes are particularly fragile, soplease use the boardwalk.

Have a great weekend!

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