Dear Friend,

We are pleased to share with you that Richard Haass will address the virtual ICAS Summer Symposium Lux 2026 with a particular emphasis on "Korean Peninsula Issues, Indo-Pacific Security Landscape and US National Security" on September 15, 2026, Washington DC.

Dr Richard Haass is senior counselor with Centerview Partners. He is also president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations after having served as CFR’s president for twenty years.

From January 2001 to June 2003, Richard was director of policy planning for the Department of State and a principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell. From 1989 to 1993, he was special assistant to President George H W Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. Previously, Richard served in the Departments of State (1981–1985) and Defense (1979–1980), and was a legislative aide in the U S Senate. He also served as U S envoy to the Cyprus and Northern Ireland negotiations and was the U S Government’s coordinator for the future of Afghanistan after 9/11.

A Rhodes Scholar, Dr Haass holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and master’s and doctorate of philosophy degrees from Oxford University. He has also received numerous honorary degrees and was a member of the faculty of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Hamilton College. Richard is the author or editor of fourteen books on American foreign policy, one book on management, and one on American democracy. He is as well the author of a weekly newsletter, Home & Away, published on Substack.

Richard spoke before the ICAS audience twice in the past - 11/28/2018, https://www.icasinc.org/2018/2018f/2018frnh.html; and 2/15/2022, https://www.icasinc.org/2022/2022f/2022frnh.html- and this time will be his third appearance.

Thank you.