Robert Lane Greene

March 12, 2010

December 18, 2009

November 11, 2009

I moderated a lively panel on global perspectives ahead of December’s Copenhagen climate conference. The session, held in Washington, included Jose Goldemberg of the University of Sao Paolo, Sun Guoshun of the Chinese embassy, and Atul Arya of BP, three very different characters with very different points of view. Audio is here. See also the feisty talk by Ed Markey, co-author of the Waxman-Markey bill, who connected tomorrow’s green revolution with yesterday’s telecoms revolution; if we’d let entrenched interests have their way, he said, you’d still be using a rotary-dial phone, and forget about the Blackberry in your pocket. Finally, check out the excellent panel session with Michael Levi, Frank Loy and Daniel Price, moderated by the Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin.

September 23, 2009

I appeared on Brian Lehrer’s WNYC show to talk about Barack Obama’s speech to the UN. Fast forward to the 29:00 mark or so for our discussion.

December 1, 2008

I participated in a rather grandly titled panel discussion, “Transition 2008: Advising the Next President”, part of an ongoing series that The Economist participates in alongside NYU and the Council on Foreign Relations. I also talked about Barack Obama’s newly named national-security team on the Brian Lehrer Show this morning on WNYC.

September 26, 2008

I interviewed the former Secretary of State on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative yesterday; she discusses her advice for the incoming commander-in-chief, drawn from her book Memo to the President Elect (which I mistakenly called Memo to the Next President – sorry about that, Madame Secretary.

September 25, 2008

This week I’m appearing on “Insight”, Australia’s biggest current-affairs program, to talk about the American elections. It was a big panel with slightly raucous audience participation, but it was fun.

July 11, 2008

On Friday, I appeared on NPR’s “Day to Day” program to discuss “Obama, Insha’allah?”

May 7, 2008

I moderated a great discussion on two new books between Bill Overholt (Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics) and Parag Khanna (The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order) at the Asia Society last Thursday. The audio is here.

January 31, 2008

This week I’m participating in a friendly on-line debate with Jonathan Jacoby, of the Center for American Progress, on free trade versus “fair trade”. The debate is hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.