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P A S T
E V E N T S

From engaging discussions to our speaker series, we aspire to start nuanced conversations that consider different ideas and thoughts.

S P E A K E R S

SPEX offers members the unique opportunity to hear from esteemed professionals.

Stephen Orlins

President of the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations since 2005. Prior to that, he was the managing director of Carlyle Asia and the chairman of the board of Taiwan Broadband Communications, one of Taiwan’s largest cable television and high speed internet providers. Mr. Orlins was also a senior advisor to AEA Investors Inc., a New York based leveraged buyout firm and was with the investment banking firm of Lehman Brothers  from 1985 to 1991. 

Michael Posner

Mr. Posner is the Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the Stern, the first-ever human rights center at a business school. Prior to joining NYU, Posner served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2013 as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. He has also represented the U.S. Government to foreign officials and representatives of civil society in countries of strategic importance to the United States, including China, Russia, Egypt, Burma, Bahrain, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, among many others.

SPRING 2023

02.
14

Can India Restore Financial Stability? 

with Viral Achraya

02.
07

What is Economic

Diplomacy?

with Professor Dry

FALL  2022

12.
06

The Politics of the

World Cup

SPEX Conversations

11.
22

SOF X SPEX: The Future of Sino-America Relations

with Stephen Orlins

11.
01

Are Human Rights In China Doomed?

with Michael Posner

10.

18

Is Sustainable Investing Sustainable?

with Professor Atz

10.
04

Forced Labor: Can We

Eradicate It?

with Sheela Ahluwalia

09.

20

Can We Avoid a

Recession?

with Professor Saeidinezhad

11.
29

Is "The Science" On Climate Change Settled?

SPEX x Net Impact

11.
15

Is Affirmative Action Necessary or Needless?

SPEX Conversations

10.

26

SVS X SPEX: Social Media and the Misinformation Machine

with Professor Sanderson

10.

06

BPE x SPEX x SBLA Host Elinor Hoffmann

Chief of NY Antitrust Bureau

09.

26

SOF X SPEX:

Jeopardy

Club Social

09.

13

Terrorism: A Shifting Paradigm

with Javed Ali

This list is limited to the current and previous semester.

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