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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.

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.

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Wednesday, May 29th lunch meeting at the Union Club of Boston

Gina McCarthy

Former Head, Environmental Protection Agency and White House National Climate Adviser

“COP 28 and Climate Change: Outcomes, Opportunities, and Challenges”

Gina McCarthy was the first White House National Climate Adviser from 2021 to 2022 and head of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017. She was CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council in 2020, served as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection from 2004 to 2009, and has held several environmental positions in Massachusetts state government. A native of Boston, McCarthy has been an environmental adviser to five Massachusetts governors. She has also been a fellow at Harvard’s Public Health School and Kennedy School, and at Tuft’s Fletcher School.