DWAC Speaker – Brian Till 05/25

Fresh out of college and frustrated with his generation’s negative outlook on politics, Brian Till wrangled his way into interviews with the political giants of the last quarter century to see what they had learned about leading in a turbulent world .

In CONVERSATIONS WITH POWER: What Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us About Leadership, Brian Till sits down with luminaries such as Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ehud Barak, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Vaclav Havel and asks the hard questions.  With the frankness that is only possible when one no longer holds the reins of power, they told him about their greatest triumphs and failures, the ways they saw the world change (and stay the same), and their advice to his generation and beyond.

Brian Till is a Research Fellow with the American Strategy Program where he primarily works with Middle East and Latin American policy issues.

Mr. Till blogs for the Atlantic and previously wrote a nationally syndicated column for the Creators Syndicate. His columns have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, the Dallas Morning News, and the Philadelphia Inquirer among other papers. He covered the 2008 presidential campaign, attending dozens of events and debates in California, Nevada, Iowa, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. He has been a guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and has held internships with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, and the Treatment Action Campaign in Cape Town, South Africa.

Mr. Till holds a degree in Political Science from Haverford College. His thesis, “Ghosts of Afghanistan: Lessons from the return of the Arab Afghans in the post-Soviet period,” won the Herman M. Somers prize for best political science thesis.

Date: Wednesday May 25, 2011

Time: 5:30 – 7:15 PM 

Venue: The Denver Athletic Club, 1325 Glenarm Pl.

Price: $25 for members/$35 for non-members/ $15 for YP