In the House: Your catch-up on who addressed Chatham House events this summer

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In the House: Your catch-up on who addressed Chatham House events this summer
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Remarkable speakers visited Chatham House for speeches, panels, webinars, livestreams and other events during June and July.

It’s been a busy summer at Chatham House, plenty to keep an international affairs think tank occupied. The auditorium and meeting rooms have been packed. Message boards and video channels have hummed with the back and forth of speeches, panel sessions, questions, answers, challenges, rebuttals and presentations of reports and expert commentary. 

Here are just some of the people who attended events this summer, including at the flagship London Conference in June. You can watch some of their remarks on video.

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Professor Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to Bangladesh’s interim government, discusses the ‘explosive situation’ in the country during a talk at Chatham House.

HE Professor Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor of Bangladesh:
‘People were killed point blank on the street every day.’

Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs

Louise Arbour, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Ben Hodges, Former Commander, US Army in Europe:
‘Europe is itself a superpower and it should quit whining and act like a superpower’

Nile Gardiner, Director, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom and Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow

The Rt Hon Lord Robertson, former UK Defence Secretary:
‘A deadly game of brinkmanship’

Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico

Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman. Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College, London

Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief of Foreign Policy Magazine 

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