April 23: Ambassador Michael McFaul and Larry Diamond in Conversation

Start time
2025-04-23 05:00
Finished Time
2025-04-23 06:00
Speakers

Michael McFaul
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Director and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
What to Know
Wednesday
April 23
5:00 to 6:00 p.m. PT
Trump's Foreign Policy: The Impact on Global Democracy and U.S. National Security

Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2012 to 2014. He is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he serves as Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.