Ambassador Henry (Hank) Crumpton, who oversaw the CIA-led assault on the Taliban and al Qaeda after 9-11, and author of “The Art of Intelligence: Lessons From a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service,” spoke at the Woodrow Wilson School on December 12, 2012. The discussion was part of the School’s “Military Policy – At Home and Abroad” thematic lecture series. Crumpton is chairman and CEO of Crumpton Group, LLC, a strategic international advisory and business development firm. With the rank of ambassador at large, he served as the coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State from August 2005 until February 2007. Crumpton joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 and spent most of his twenty-four year career working undercover in the foreign field. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA’s highest award for achievement.

On December 11, 2012, the Woodrow Wilson School hosted an “Up to the Minute” discussion on the latest violence and turmoil in the Middle East featuring Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, lecturer in public and international affairs, and the S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor in Middle East Policy Studies. The Wilson School’s “Up to the Minute” events keep the Princeton community up-to-date on world events, drawing on the expertise of School faculty and visitors. Ambassador Kurtzer also discussed his two new books: “The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace 1989-2011,” co-authored by Daniel Kurtzer, Bill Quandt, Scott Lasensky, Steve Spiegel, and Shibley Telhami; and “Pathways to Peace: America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” edited by Daniel C. Kurtzer.

As part of the Woodrow Wilson School’s “Technology and Public Policy” thematic lecture series, Aneesh Chopra, the former and first federal chief technology officer, spoke at the Wilson School on December 10, 2012. His discussion, “The Open Innovator's Toolkit ~ Empowering a New Generation of Problem Solvers,” was co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). Chopra spent two days at Princeton as the Conor D. Reilly Distinguished Visitor in Leadership and Governance and through the generous support of the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, discussed his recently published book, “Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan,” at the Woodrow Wilson School on December 5, 2012. From 2009 to 2011, he reported on the war in Afghanistan for The Post, traveling extensively through the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar to reveal the impact of President Obama’s decision to double U.S. force levels.

Sophie Delaunay, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the United States, spoke at the Woodrow Wilson School on December 4, 2012. Her talk, “Humanitarian Action and the Necessity of Compromise,” looked at the notion of humanitarian space as a “negotiating space” where compromise is not only inevitable but necessary. Delaunay said that to understand the difficulties of humanitarian organizations’ contemporary working situations, one needs to look at how their ambitions have developed and whether it is getting more difficult to reach acceptable compromises – and who decides what is an acceptable compromise – in some of today’s humanitarian contexts.

Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, engaged her audience in a lively discussion during a public lecture at the Woodrow Wilson School on December 3, 2012. Titled, “Beyond Work/Life: Changing the Debate and Making Change,” Slaughter used the occasion to lay the groundwork for the next chapter in the on-going debate following her extensively read July/August 2012 cover story in The Atlantic Magazine, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.”

Delivering Results” was the topic of conversation with Robert B. Zoellick, who served as president of the World Bank Group from 2007 to 2012. Zoellick spoke at the Woodrow Wilson School on November 29, 2012, as part of the Woodrow Wilson School’s “Leadership and Governance Program.” Zoellick is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Zoellick served as the 11th president of the World Bank Group from 2007-12. He also served in President George W. Bush's cabinet as U.S. Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005 and as deputy secretary of State from 2005 to 2006. From 1985 to 1993, Zoellick worked at the Treasury and State departments in various capacities, as well as briefly in the White House as deputy chief of staff. In 2006 and 2007, he served as vice chairman, International of Goldman Sachs Group. Zoellick holds a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College.

Cass Sunstein, who served as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) from September 2009 – October 2012, discussed “Deciding by Default: Lessons from Behavioral Economics” at the Woodrow Wilson School on November 26, 2012. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is located within the Office of Management and Budget and was created by Congress with the enactment of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (PRA). OIRA carries out several important functions, including reviewing Federal regulations, reducing paperwork burdens, and overseeing the implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information technology, information policy, privacy, and statistical policy. OIRA oversees the federal rulemaking process and has been directed by the president to follow certain principles in rulemaking, such as consideration of alternatives of both costs and benefits. Sunstein is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1975 and in 1978 from Harvard Law School. After graduation, Sunstein clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then went on to work as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Justice Department.

Famed civil rights leader, social activist, politician, writer, and professor, Julian Bond, spoke at the Woodrow Wilson School on November 20, 2012, as part of the School’s “Social Movements” thematic lecture series. Julian Bond’s dedication to civil rights began in the late 1950s when he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, helping to organize the “Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.” The committee was involved in various nonviolent protests that helped lead to the integration of the city of Atlanta’s theaters, lunch counters, and parks. In early 1960, Bond joined other college students in forming the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), whose members worked with local communities in establishing grassroots support for the civil rights movement. In 1971, Bond became the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center – the civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and through litigation seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. In 1965, Bond was elected to the Georgia legislature, but his outspoken objections to the Vietnam War, resulted in the legislature to deny Bond his seating. Bond was elected to the seat three times, only to have the legislature to ignore the election results and refuse him a seat in the legislature. Finally in 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the actions of the Georgia legislature were unconstitutional and Bond was sworn in as a member of the legislature and went on to officially serve in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1967-1974. Bond then went on to serve as member of the Georgia Senate from 1975-1987. From 1998 to 2010, Bond was the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).