Previous Events and Guest Speakers
by Karla Adam
The AACL has hosted the great and the good over recent years, including Prince Charles, Tony Blair, Dalai Lama, Gerry Adams, Jamie Oliver and John le Carre.
Below is the list of previous esteemed AACL guests from the previous decade, and beyond …
2008
July 28 David Miliband
January 22 Ken Wharfe
2007
June 11 HRH Duke of York
July 11 General Sir Mike Jackson
October 9 Alistair Campbell
2006
January 25 Benjamin Franklin House
February 9 Good Night and Good Luck
February 27 Sir ...
David Miliband on the Foreign Office
by Ginanne Brownell
Well weren’t we lucky? Just 48 hours before David Miliband’s controversial piece came out in The Guardian, which was seen as a thinly veiled attack on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s leadership, the British Foreign Secretary was dining with us!
Though the lunch was off the record (so sadly can’t share snippets about where he is going on vacation nor the hotspots he’ll be watching over the summer break), he did ...