Global Business Forum

While the world is adapting to COVID-19, a new American administration, Brexit, the rise of China, and other momentous changes, we are engaging in a series of online conversations with prominent scholars, journalists, and public officials, produced in cooperation with the World Affairs Council of Dallas and Fort Worth. With Baylor sponsorship, these are free and open to the public, but they require registration on the World Affairs Council website at the links provided below. Please join us!

To register for each event, click on "Complimentary Registration" below, and then click "Baylor Guest" on the following screen and then "Continue." Fill in the required items on the form, and click "submit." A Zoom link will be sent to you.

	Adrian Wooldridge Political editor, The Economist, and co-author of The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic has Exposed the Weakness of the West – and How to Fix It Speaker Information Moderator: Jim Falk, President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of DFW VIDEO Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 11:00AM CT
	Sebastian Mallaby Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations and author, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan Speaker Information Moderator: Blaine McCormick, Associate Professor of Management, Baylor University VIDEO Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 11:00am CT
	Robert Zoellick Senior Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center. Previously president of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and U.S. Trade Representative. Author of America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy. Speaker Information Moderator: Ambassador Robert Jordan, Diplomat in Residence, Tower Center, Southern Methodist University VIDEO Thursday, February 11, 2021, 6:00pm CT
	Paul Krugman Nobel-Prize-winning Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future. Speaker Information Moderator: Austan Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; and 26th Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors VIDEO Thursday, February 25, 2021, 6:00pm CT
	Darrell M. West Vice President of the Brookings Institution, Director of its program in Governance Studies, and co-author of Turning Point; Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Speaker Information Moderator: H. James Wilson, Global Managing Director of IT & Business Research at Accenture Research, San Francisco VIDEO Thursday, March 11, 2021, 6:00pm CT
	Ayman Safadi Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs & Expatriates, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Speaker Information Moderator: Joanne Held Cummings, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Baylor University; recently retired Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD), U.S. Department of State VIDEO Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 10:00am CT
	Elizabeth Economy Senior Fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Hoover Institution, and author, The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State Speaker Information Moderator: H. Stephen Gardner, Herman Brown Professor of Economics and Director, McBride Center for International Business, Baylor University VIDEO Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 6:00pm CT