The Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lecture series was endowed for the purpose of bringing prominent figures in international security, foreign policy and diplomacy to Duke University in order to engage with students, faculty and the larger Duke community about issues of international importance.
Phillips Family International Lectures
2022 – 2023
Ambassador Katherine Tai | November 9, 2022
2021-2022
Michael McFaul | March 1, 2022
General Mark A. Milley | November 12, 2021
2020-2021
Susan Rice | August 27, 2020
GEN H.R. McMaster | October 14, 2020 
2019-2020
Samantha Power | December 3, 2019
John Bolton | February 17, 2020 
2018-2019
GEN Joseph Dunford | Nov. 5, 2018
GEN John Kelly| March 6, 2019 
2017-2018 Expand
2017-2018
John Podesta | November 2017
Reince Priebus | December 2017 2016-2017 Expand
2016-2017
Karl Rove & Jim Messina | October 2016
ADM James Stavridis | November 2016
GEN Keith Alexander | November 2016
Jared Cohen | March 2017
Joe Nye | April 2017 2015-2016 Expand
2015-2016
Tom Donilon | November 2015
Wendy Sherman | February 2016
GEN Martin Dempsey | February 2016
Estonian PM Event | March 2016
GEN Martin Dempsey & Denis McDonough | April 2016 2014-2015 Expand
2014-2015
Steve Hadley | December 2014
Mitt Romney | April 2015 2013-2014 Expand
2013-2014
David Petraeus | September 2013
Karl Eikenberry | March 2014