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.