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The Boston Committee on Foreign Relations is a member organization established in 1946 in cooperation with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and currently affiliated with the American Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. Its purpose is to encourage enlightened discussion of international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. It takes no policy positions and is open to members of all political views. The BCFR’s membership is drawn from the leadership ranks of the region’s business, financial, academic, and legal communities and from the local diplomatic corps.

 

 

Wednesday, March 27th lunch meeting at the Union Club of Boston

Anand Menon

Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, King’s College London

“Prospects for Post-Brexit Britain”

Prior to arriving at King’s College, London, Menon lectured at Birmingham University. Previously he was Lecturer in European Politics at Oxford University for ten years and a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford for five.

Menon is the Director of UK in a Changing Europe, a think tank funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and based at King’s College London

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Tuesday, April 16th dinner meeting at the Union Club of Boston

Kenneth Juster

former American Ambassador to India

“The Evolution of the US-India Relationship”

Kenneth Ian Juster is a veteran American diplomat, who served as the United States Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021. He is currently senior counselor at the global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, senior adviser at the institutional investor CDPQ, strategic adviser at the software company Salesforce, and distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Friday, May 10th lunch meeting at the Union Club of Boston

Mohammed Tabaar

Associate Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University

“Inside Iran: Politics, Nuclear Ambitions, and Regional Strategy”

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar is a visiting scholar at the Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom and the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service. He is also a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. His research areas include international security and Middle East politics.