May 16-18, 2007 | Chicago, IL

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Day I | Wednesday, May 16, 2007

3:15 p.m. - New Member Orientation 
Council members only

4:00 p.m. - Roundtable Discussion 
Council members only

6:00 p.m. - Opening Reception 
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6:30 p.m. - Dinner 
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Keynote Address: Glenn Tilton, Chairman, President, and CEO, UAL Corporation and United Airlines

Day II | Thursday, May 17, 2007

9:00 a.m. - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30 a.m. - Welcome
Robert J. Zimmer, President, The University of Chicago
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10:00 a.m. - Session I: The Morality of Globalization
Tom G. Palmer, Senior Fellow, CATO Institute
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11:30 a.m. - Session II: Lebanon: A Regional Playing Field Once Again
Michael Young, Opinion Page Editor, The Daily Star

1:00 p.m. - Lunch
Keynote Address: "Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform"
The Honorable Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Chicago Law School
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3:00 p.m. - Public Address - "2030: The Rise of the Shi'a in the Middle East"
Mai Yamani, author, broadcaster, and commentator on Middle East affairs
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6:30 p.m. - Reception

7:00 p.m. - Dinner
Keynote Address: "Forecasting the Global Economy in 2040"
Robert Fogel, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, 1993
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Day III | Friday, May 18, 2007

9:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast

10:00 a.m. - Session III: From Fermi Forward: The University of Chicago

• Anas F. Alhajji, President, Energy Security Analysts, LLC.; Associate Professor, College of Business Administration, Ohio Northern University
• Norman D. Peterson, Assistant for Government Affairs, Office of the Director, Argonne National Laboratory
• Stuart A. Rice, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
• Vito Alexander Stagliano, Director of Research, National Commission on Energy Policy
• Gene Celentano (moderator), former President, Texaco International Marketing and Manufacturing; Owner/Manager, Westway, LLC

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12:00 p.m. - Lunch
Keynote Address: "The President in Perspective"
Jacob Weisberg, Editor, Slate Magazine

2:00 p.m. - Roundtable Discussion 
Council members only