McCloskey Speaker Series 2009
Aspen InstituteAspen Public Radio is proud to partner with The Aspen Institute to broadcast the McCloskey Speaker Series live from Paepcke Auditorium. For on-sale dates and to purchase tickets, go to AspenShowTickets.com. For more information about the McCloskey Speaker Series, please visit the Aspen Insitute website. Aspen Public Radio will also be broadcasting from the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 29 - July 5.

Corporate support for the broadcasts of the McCloskey Speakers' Series and Aspen Ideas Festival is provided by Jonathan Boxer,
Real Estate Broker in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley.
More at AspenRealEstateSource.com.

Broadcast schedule subject to change.

Saturday, July 11 at 3 pm
Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) is the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and his five terms have made him the longest-serving US senator in Pennsylvania’s history.

Tuesday, July 14 at 6:30 pm
Dambisa Moyo was born and raised in Zambia, Southern Africa. She will speak about her new book, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa.

Tuesday, July 21 at 6:30 pm
Ezekiel Emanuel is head of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health and a breast oncologist. He is on extended detail as a special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Tuesday, August 4 at 6:30 pm
Saving the World in Your Spare Time: Foreign Policy Challenges and What We Can Do About Them
Nicholas D. Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, writes a twice weekly op-ed in The New York Times. His columns often focus on global health, poverty, and gender issues in the developing world, as well as on US foreign policy.

Thursday, July 30 at 6:30 pm
Richard N. Haass will speak about his book War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars. He is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, former director of policy planning for the Department of State under Colin Powell from 2001-2003, and special assistant (and senior Middle East advisor) to President George H. W. Bush.

Friday, August 7 at 4:30 pm
The Education of a Patient Capitalist
Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank. She serves on the advisory board of Stanford Graduate School of Business, is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow, and a Synergos Institute Senior Fellow.

Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Public Radio will also be broadcasting from the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 29 - July 5.

Please check back for the next live broadcast.
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