Established in 2003 by Lee C. Bollinger, the World Leaders Forum is a year-round event series aimed to advance lively, uninhibited dialogue on the large economic, political, and social questions of our time.The Forum's roster of past participants features many of heads of state, in addition to other global thought leaders from a broad spectrum of fields and all regions of the world. A few of the many remarkable past participants are Presidents Bill Clinton, Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic, and the Dalai Lama. World Leaders Forum events have garnered press coverage by news media organizations including the Associated Press, the BBC, and PBS, among others.
Title: Preparing for Extreme Weather: Global Lessons from Sandy
Authors: Adam H. Sobel (moderator)
Date: February 2015Title: Mo Yan and Chinese Literature
Authors: Mo Yan
Date: November 2014Title: Rached Ghannouchi: Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Authors: Rached Ghannouchi
Date: October 2014Title: Dr. Hans Blix: Non-Use of Armed Force in State Relations - an Evolving Norm
Authors: Hans Blix
Date: October 2014Title: Dilemmas of Campaigning and Governing in the United States: A Conversation with Governor Lincoln D. Chafee
Authors: Lincoln Chafee
Date: October 2014Title: His Excellency Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
Date: September 2014Title: His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, President of the Republic of Tunisia
Date: September 2014Title: Her Excellency Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway
Date: September 2014Title: Children in the Age of Sustainable Development
Date: September 2014Title: Sergio Cabral Filho, former Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Authors: Sergio Cabral Filho
Date: May 2014Title: Global Governance and Future Challenges: Lessons from the Oxford Martin Commission
Date: April 2014Title: Growth and Poverty
Authors: Amartya Sen, Edmund S. Phelps, Jeffrey D. Sachs
Date: December 2013Title: America's European Ambassadors: Diplomacy in Tumultuous Times
Authors: Victoria de Grazia
Date: November 2013Title: The Balancing Act: Women, Work and Family in the United States and France
Authors: Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Anne-Marie Slaughter
Date: October 2013Title: His Excellency Sebastián Piñera, President of the Republic of Chile
Authors: Sebastián Piñera
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Mr. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia
Authors: Toomas Hendrik
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal
Authors: Macky Sall
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency John Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana
Authors: John Mahama
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Horacio Cartes, President of the Republic of Paraguay
Authors: Horacio Cartes
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council
Authors: Herman Van Rompuy
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Enrico Letta, Prime Minister of Italy
Authors: Enrico Letta
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Edi Rama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania
Authors: Edi Rama
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Christopher Jorebon Loeak, President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Authors: Jorebon Loeak
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Borut Pahor, President of the Republic of Slovenia
Authors: Borut Pahor
Date: September 2013Title: His Excellency Armando Emílio Guebuza, President of the Republic of Mozambique
Authors: Emílio Guebuza
Date: September 2013Title: Balancing Foreign Direct Investments: Disaster Risks and Development in Haiti
Authors: Laurent Lamothe
Date: April 2013Title: True Leadership Requires Accountability: The Way Forward for New African Leadership
Date: February 2013Title: The International Criminal Court and the Fight Against Impunity for Atrocity Crimes
Authors: Sang-Hyun Song
Date: February 2013Title: After Sandy: Climate and Our Coastal Future
Authors: Jeffrey D. Sachs (moderator)
Date: November 2012Title: Presidential Economic Advisers Forum 2012
Authors: R. Glenn Hubbard, Jeffrey Liebman
Date: October 2012Title: The Islamic World in the New Century
Authors: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Date: September 2012Title: Challenges of Transformation in a Fragile State: The Case of Liberia
Authors: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Date: September 2012Title: A Future Without HIV/AIDS: Dream or Reality?
Authors: Anthony Fauci, Eric Goosby, Michel Sidibe, Wafaa El-Sadr
Date: September 2012Title: A Discussion Featuring Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Authors: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Date: September 2012Title: Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon
Authors: Ban Ki-moon
Date: April 2012Title: U.S. Foreign Policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Authors: Ahmed Rashid, Steve Coll
Date: March 2012Title: Attorney General of the United States, Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Authors: Eric H. Holder
Date: February 2012Title: Multilateralism in Trade at Risk: Should and Can we Rescue the Doha Round?
Authors: Pascal Lamy, Jagdish Bhagwati, Michael Moore, Leif Pagrotsky
Date: December 2011Title: President of the Republic of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga
Date: September 2011Title: President of the Republic of Ecuador, Rafael Correa
Authors: Rafael Correa
Date: September 2011Title: President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė
Date: November 2010Title: The Sovereign Debt Problem
Authors: George Soros
Date: October 2010Title: Address by Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics
Authors: Howard Davies
Date: October 2010Title: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, Jigmi Y. Thinley
Authors: Jigmi Y. Thinley
Date: September 2010Title: Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Authors: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Date: September 2010Title: Prime Minister of Portugal, José Sócrates
Authors: José Sócrates
Date: September 2010Title: Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi
Authors: Meles Zenawi
Date: September 2010Title: President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül
Date: September 2010Title: President of the Republic of Croatia, Ivo Josipović
Date: September 2010Title: President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso
Authors: José Manuel Barroso
Date: September 2010Title: President José Manuel Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste
Authors: José Manuel Ramos-Horta
Date: September 2010Title: Challenges of the Drylands
Authors: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Belay Begashaw, Upmanu Lall
Date: September 2010Title: Conversations with America featuring Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Authors: Admiral Mike Mullen
Date: April 2010Title: Address by Vikram Pandit, Chief Executive Officer, Citi
Authors: Vikram Pandit
Date: April 2010Title: President Nicolas Sarkozy of France
Authors: Nicolas Sarkozy
Date: March 2010Title: Keynote address by William C. Dudley, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Authors: William Dudley
Date: December 2009Title: Strategies of Representation featuring Alfredo Jaar
Authors: Alfredo Jaar
Date: October 2009Title: THINKING BIG New York and London: Heading Back to the Top
Authors: Michael Bloomberg, Boris Johnson
Date: September 2009Title: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal of the Republic of Nepal
Authors: Madhav Kumar
Date: September 2009Title: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand
Authors: Abhisit Vejjajiva
Date: September 2009Title: President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina
Authors: Cristina Fernández
Date: September 2009Title: President Boris Tadic of Serbia
Authors: Boris Tadic
Date: September 2009Title: Gabriel Silver Memorial Lecture with Kofi Annan
Authors: Kofi Annan
Date: September 2009Title: A Conversation with Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Laureate
Authors: Martti Ahtisaari
Date: September 2009Title: President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic
Authors: Václav Klaus
Date: March 2009Title: Leadership in the 21st Century: CNN White House Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux '91JRN Speaks with Columbia Student Leaders
Authors: Suzanne Malveaux
Date: March 2009Title: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Turkey
Authors: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Date: November 2008Title: President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia
Authors: Evo Morales
Date: November 2008Title: Columbia University and the Global Sustainability Challenge
Authors: Rohit T. Aggarwala, Kelly Kleinert, Klaus S. Lackner, Lionel McIntyre
Date: October 2008Title: Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark
Authors: Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Date: September 2008Title: President Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Republic
Authors: Leonel Fernández
Date: September 2008Title: President Danilo Türk of Slovenia
Authors: Danilo Türk
Date: September 2008Title: President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland
Authors: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Date: September 2008Title: Anne Lauvergeon, Chief Executive Officer of AREVA
Authors: Anne Lauvergeon
Date: September 2008Title: Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
Authors: David Rothkopf, Robert Hormats, Merit Janow, Luis Alberto Moreno, Alan Murray, Saskia Sassen
Date: April 2008Title: Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of Mongolia
Authors: Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Date: October 2007Title: Michelle Bachelet, President of the Republic of Chile
Authors: Michelle Bachelet
Date: September 2007Title: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Authors: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Date: September 2007Title: Željko Komšić, Presidency Chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: September 2007Title: A Conversation with Toomas Hendrik Ilves (CC' 76), President of the Republic of Estonia and Mikheil Saakashvili (LAW' 94), President of the Republic of Georgia
Authors: Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Mikheil Saakashvili
Date: September 2007