The document describes an annual spring colloquium hosted by the Graduate School of International Policy and Management. Each year, the colloquium focuses on a different globally significant theme and brings in guest speakers who are leaders and practitioners in the field. Speakers give lectures and engage in coursework with students to connect theory and practice. The colloquium aims to foster diverse discussion through participation of both students and local community members. Prior year themes included economic diplomacy, global security challenges, emerging markets, nation building, and carbon markets.

1. Annual Spring Colloquium
 Semester long guest speaker series with global leaders
and practitioners.
 Coursework and lecture to bridge the gap between
theory and practice.
 Diverse classroom setting with local community
participants and students from varying degree tracks.

2. 2014: Economic
Diplomacy and Statecraft
The Graduate School of International Policy and Management
Key Topics: Economic sanctions & The evolving global
trading system, The practice of diffused and smart power in
a multi-polar world, Sustainable development, rising Africa,
climate change, and other areas of global importance.
Francis Fukuyama, Political Scientist,
Economist and Author
Steven Pifer, Former US Ambassador to Ukraine
Rufus Yerxa
Former Deputy Director General, WTO

3. 2013: Evolving Global Security Challenges:
From Traditional to Nontraditional Security
The Graduate School of International Policy and Management
Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg
Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council
on Foreign Relations
Topic: Cybersecurity/Cyberwarfare
Michael Kugelman, Senior Program
Associate for South and Southeast Asia,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars
Topic: Food Insecurity and Farms Race
Featured Speakers included:
Key Topics: What are crucial issues on the nonproliferation agenda? What is
the connection between global warming and conflict? Does promoting
democracy abroad really work?

4. 2012: Emerging Markets: BRICS
and Beyond
The Graduate School of International Policy and Management
Ambassador Faizel Ismail, Ambassador of
South Africa to the WTO
Topic: Developing Countries in Global
Trade Governance
Bill Lewis, Retired Senior Partner of
McKinsey & Co. Inc.
Topic: The Power of Productivity: A
Comparison of Russia and India
Featured Speakers included:
Key Topics: Debating the rise of China, India and others with practitioners,
academics, and political and business leaders. What explains their emergence?
What does it mean for the global system?

5. 2011: Nation Building
The Graduate School of International Policy and Management
James Dobbins, Director, International
Security and Defense Policy Center,
RAND
Topic: Nation Building in Post-Conflict
Societies: Lessons Learned
Kees Steenken, Coordinator UN Inter Agency
Working Group on Disarmament
Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR)
Topic: Nation building from the UN perspective
Featured Speakers included:
Key Topics: Speakers addressed the security, human rights, environmental, and cultural
issues governments, international aid organizations, and civil society encounter when
trying to re-build a country.

6. 2010: Carbon Markets
The Graduate School of International Policy and Management
Michael Walsh, Executive Vice President,
Research, Chicago Climate
Topic: The Role of Exchanges and
Standardization in Reducing Emissions at
Scale
Chris Kelly, California Program Director,
The Conservation Fund
Topic: Using carbon credits to promote
conservation
Featured Speakers included:
Key Topics: Developing Countries and the Next Clean Development
Mechanism, the carbon market and its contribution to reducing greenhouse
gas emissions, and the link between climate, human rights and development.

7. The Graduate School of International Policy and Management
Spring 2015 theme and speakers
coming soon
go.miis.edu/colloquium