2011 Visitors
The US Studies Centre hosts visitors from the highest levels of government, media, think tanks and universities. Visitors to the Centre have included former Australian Prime Ministers, senior American government officials and numerous academics from universities including Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale universities and the University of California Berkeley.
October
- Harvey L. Pitt
Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University - Shanto Iyengar
Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University
September
- C. Ray Nagin
Former Mayor of New Orleans - Martha Schwartz
Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design - William Chafe
Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University
August
- Martin Kaplan
Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the University of Southern California - Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics and Professor of Psychology at Princeton University - Thomas Friedman
Internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist and recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes
June
- Jeffrey Bader
Former Senior Director for East Asian Affairs on the United States National Security Council - Julie Bishop
Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade - Jeffrey Bleich
United States Ambassador to Australia - Robert Bonner
Former Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection - Nicholas Burns
Sultan of Oman Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and former United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs - Bob Carr
Former Premier of New South Wales - Peter Cosgrove AC MC
Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University and former Chief of the Australian Defence Force - Gareth Evans AO QC
Chancellor of the Australian National University and former Minister for Foreign Affairs - Leah Farrall
Former senior Counter Terrorism Intelligence Analyst at the Australian Federal Police and author of the blog All Things Counter Terrorism - Douglas Feith
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies, Hudson Institute and former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy - Adam Garfinkle
Editor of The American Interest and former speechwriter for Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice - Allan Gyngell AO
Director-General of the Office of National Assessments and founding Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy - Robert Kaplan
National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security - Peter Khalil
Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney - Stephen Krasner
Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford University and former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State - Michael L'Estrange AO
Director of the National Security College at the Australian National University and former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Martine Letts
Deputy Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and former Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Red Cross - Anatol Lieven
Professor of War Studies at King's College London and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation - Robert McClelland
Attorney-General of Australia - Nicola McGarrity
Director of the Terrorism and Law Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of New South Wales - Paul McGeough
Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald - Bill Paterson
Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Michael Pezzullo
Chief Operating Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service and former Deputy Secretary Strategy of the Department of Defence - Dennis Richardson AO
Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and former Director-General of ASIO - Amin Saikal AM
Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University - Lynn Vavreck
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles - Michael Wesley
Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy - Hugh White
Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University and former Deputy Secretary in the Department of Defence
May
- Ben Wildavsky
Senior scholar in Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation - Christopher Parker
Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice and Political Science at the University of Washington
April
- Steve Ross
Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities - Bob Putnam
Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University - Matthew Sag
Associate Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law - Gregory Crewdson
Adjunct Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art
March
- Richard Altman
Executive Director of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative
February
- Alan Michelson
Native American artist - John Howard
Former Prime Minister of Australia
January
- John Gastil
Professor, Department of Communication at the University of Washington - Lynnette Abbott
Vice Dean, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Western Australia - Mark Adams
Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Sydney - Dennis Angers
Senior Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Jeff Baldock
Stream Leader, Sustainable Agriculture Flagship, CSIRO - Dan Binkley
Professor, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University - Michael Bird
Federation Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University - Phil Brookes
Head of Soil Microbial Biomass Group, Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems Department, Rothamsted - Claire Chenu
Chair of Soil Science, UMR Bioemco, AgroParisTech - John Crawford
Chair in Sustainable Agriculture, University of Sydney - Julie Jastrow
Senior Scientist in the Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory - Rattan Lal
Director of the School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University - Johannes Lehmann
Associate Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Soil fertility Management, Cornell University - Alex McBratney
Pro-Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, University of Sydney - Tony O'Donnell
Dean of Sciences, University of Western Australia - William Parton
Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University - David Whitehead
Principal Investigator, New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre - Iain Young
Head, School of Environmental & Rural Science at the University of New England, Armidale - Michael Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate, School Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
Harvey L. Pitt
Former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Harvey L. Pitt is the Chief Executive Officer of the global business consulting firm, Kalorama Partners, LLC, and its law firm affiliate, Kalorama Legal Services, PLLC. Prior to founding the two Kalor… more
Professor Shanto Iyengar
Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University
Shanto Iyengar holds the Chandler Chair in Communication at Stanford University where he is also Professor of Political Science and Director of the Political Communication Laboratory.… more
C. Ray Nagin
Former Mayor of New Orleans
C. Ray Nagin is the former Mayor of New Orleans. He visited Australia for the US Studies Centre National Summit in 2009 and the Emergency Management and Business Continuity Summit in 2011.… more
Professor Martha Schwartz
Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with a major interest in urban projects and the exploration of new design expression in the landscape. Her background is in both fine arts and lands… more
Professor William Chafe
Former Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
William Chafe is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University, USA. He was special guest speaker at the US Studies Centre's National Summit in 2007 and visited the Centre again in 20… more
Professor Martin Kaplan
Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the University of Southern California
Martin Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. His uncommonly broad car… more
Professor Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics and Professor of Psychology at Princeton University
Daniel Kahneman has created an extensive body of research in the fields of psychology and economic science, work that has been recognised with the highest honors of the scholarly world and beyond, inc… more
Thomas Friedman
Internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist and recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes
Thomas L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. He became the paper's foreign-affairs columnist in 1995. Previously, he served as chief eco… more
Jeffrey Bader
Former Senior Director for East Asian Affairs on the United States National Security Council
Jeffrey Bader was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
The Honourable Julie Bishop
Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Julie Bishop was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich
US Ambassador to Australia
Jeffrey Bleich is the US Ambassador to Australia. He visited the US Studies Centre in December 2009 to discuss the US-Australian relationship with students. He was also a speaker at the US Studies Cen… more
Robert Bonner
Former Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection
Robert Bonner was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Professor Nicholas Burns
Sultan of Oman Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and former United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Nicholas Burns was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
The Honourable Bob Carr
Board of Directors
Bob Carr is a member of the US Studies Centre Board of Directors. He was a speaker at the 2011 National Summit.… more
General Peter Cosgrove AC MC
Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University and former Chief of the Australian Defence Force
General Peter Cosgrove was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
The Honourable Gareth Evans AO QC
Chancellor of the Australian National University and former Minister for Foreign Affairs
Gareth Evans was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Leah Farrall
Research Associate in Counter Terrorism
Leah Farrall is a Research Associate in Counter Terrorism at the US Studies Centre. She was a speaker at the US Studies Centre's National Summit in June 2011.… more
Douglas Feith
Former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Douglas Feith was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Adam Garfinkle
Editor of The American Interest and former speechwriter for Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice
Adam Garfinkle was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Allan Gyngell AO
Director-General of the Office of National Assessments and founding Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy
Allan Gyngell was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Robert Kaplan
National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security
Robert Kaplan was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Associate Professor Peter Khalil
Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney
Peter Khalil was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Professor Stephen Krasner
Professor of International Relations at Stanford University and former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State
Stephen Krasner was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Michael L'Estrange AO
Director of the National Security College at the Australian National University and former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Michael L'Estrange has been Director of the National Security College at the Australian National University since 2009 following four years as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.… more
Martine Letts
Deputy Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and former Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Red Cross
Martine Letts was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Professor Anatol Lieven
Professor of War Studies at King’s College London and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation
Anatol Lieven is Professor of War Studies at King's College London. In recent years he has worked chiefly on aspects of the "war on terror", including contemporary US global strategy and its backgroun… more
The Honourable Robert McClelland
Attorney-General of Australia
Robert McClelland was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Nicola McGarrity
Director of the Terrorism and Law Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of New South Wales
Nicola McGarrity was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Paul McGeough
Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald
Paul McGeough is a former Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and is now its chief correspondent. He is the author of several books based on his extensive reporting experiences of the Iraq and Afghani… more
Bill Paterson
Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Bill Paterson is Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism and led the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Anti-Terrorism Task Force immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. From 2004 to … more
Michael Pezzullo
Chief Operating Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
Michael Pezzullo took up the position of Chief Operating Officer in the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service in July 2009.… more
Dennis Richardson, AO
Board of Directors
Dennis Richardson is a member of the US Studies Centre Board of Directors. He was a speaker at the Centre's National Summit in June 2011.… more
Professor Amin Saikal
Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University
Amin Saikal was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.… more
Lynn Vavreck
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles
Lynn Vavreck was a visitor at the US Studies Centre in June 2011. She co-authored the Centre's 2011 Opinion Survey "Americans and Australians Compared: Ten Years After 9/11" with Professor Simon Jack… more
Professor Michael Wesley
Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy
Michael Wesley is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Previously he was Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith … more
Professor Hugh White
Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University and former Deputy Secretary in the Department of Defence
Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for Internat… more
Ben Wildavsky
Senior scholar in Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Ben Wildavsky is a senior scholar in Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He is the author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World, which won t… more
Professor Christopher Parker
Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice and Political Science at the University of Washington
Chris Parker (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001) is an associate professor, and Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice and Political Science in the Department of Political Science at th… more
Professor Steve Ross
Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities
Steven J. Ross is Professor of History at the University of Southern California. The first person in his family to go to college, he earned degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Princeton. Ross is the au… more
Professor Robert Putnam
Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University
Robert D. Putnam is Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, and Visiting Professor, University of Manchester (UK).… more
Associate Professor Matthew Sag
Associate Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law
Matthew Sag is an Associate Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Sag was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University School … more
Professor Gregory Crewdson
Adjunct Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art
Gregory Crewdson is professor (adjunct) of photography at the Yale University School of Art. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. Crewdson's work is represented in many public coll… more
Richard Altman
Executive Director of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative
Richard Altman is Executive Director of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative. He was a guest of the US Studies Centre for the Alternative aviation fuels forum at Avalon 2011.… more
Alan Michelson
Native American artist
Alan Michelson was a guest of the US Studies Centre in February 2011to discuss international indigenous art and present his own video installations.… more
The Honourable John Howard, AC
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Former Prime Minister John Howard is a member of the US Studies Centre Council of Advisors.… more
Professor John Gastil
Professor, Department of Communication at the University of Washington
John Gastil was a visitor to the US Studies Centre in January 2011. He was a panellist in a Sydney Ideas public event "Why Deliberative Democracy Matters".… more
Professor Lynette Abbott
Vice Dean, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Western Australia
Lyn Abbott was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Mark Adams
Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Sydney
Mark was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Dr Denis Angers
Senior Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Denis was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Dr Jeff Baldock
Stream Leader, Sustainable Agriculture Flagship, CSIRO
Jeff was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Dan Binkley
Professor, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
Dan was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Michael Bird
Federation Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
Michael was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Phil Brookes
Head of Soil Microbial Biomass Group, Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems Department, Rothamsted Research
Phil was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Claire Chenu
Chair of Soil Science, UMR Bioemco, AgroParisTech
Claire was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor John Crawford
Chair in Sustainable Agriculture, University of Sydney
John was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Dr Julie Jastrow
Senior Scientist in the Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Julie was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Rattan Lal
Director of the School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University
Rattan was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Associate Professor Johannes Lehmann
Department of soil biogeochemistry and soil fertility management, Cornell University
Johannes was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Alex McBratney
Pro-Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, University of Sydney
Alex was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Tony O'Donnell
Dean of Sciences, University of Western Australia
Tony was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor William Parton
Professor, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
Bill was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Dr David Whitehead
Principal Investigator, New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre
David was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Professor Iain Young
Head, School of Environmental & Rural Science at the University of New England, Armidale
Iain was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
Dr Michael Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate, School Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
Michael was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.… more
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