1989-90
McGeorge Bundy
National security advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
1990-91
Edgar Fiedler
Assistant security of the treasury for economic policy
1991-92
Jiri Vykoukal
Professor/scholar of East European history at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague
1992-93
Richard Parker
Ambassador to Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco
1993-94
Donald Leidel
Ambassador to Bahrain/deputy director of management operations for the Department of State
1994-95
Karl Scheld
Senior vice-president/director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
1995-96
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Civil rights and peace activist
1997-98
David H. Swartz
Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus
1998-99
G. Jonathan Greenwald
Minister-counselor to the European Union at the U.S. mission in Brussels
2000-01
Takakazu Kuriyama
Ambassador of Japan to the United States
2001-02
Charles Ahlgren
Retired diplomat and educator
2002-04
George Meyer
Former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
2007
Robert Lee Suettinger ’68
Intelligence analyst and China policy expert
2009 (Spring Term only)
Robert (Todd) Becker
former U.S. foreign service officer and deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Croatia.
2010 (Spring Term only)
George Wyeth, ‘73
Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Policy and Program Change Division.
2010 (Fall Term only)
Rudolf Perina
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova (1998-2001), head of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade in the mid-1990s and U.S. Special Negotiator for Eurasian Conflicts, 2001-04. Spent 35 years as U.S. foreign service officer, retiring in 2006.
2011 (Fall Term only)
Alexander Wilde, ‘62
Senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., former director of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), an independent nongovernmental organization concerned with human rights and U.S. foreign policy.
2012 (Fall Term only)
Russ Feingold
Former United States Senator from Wisconsin
