The topic of the 2009 Camden Conference was "Global Leadership and the U.S. Role in World Affairs"

The 22nd Annual Camden Conference, Global Leadership and the U.S. Role in World Affairs, was held February 20-22, 2009.

The election of Barack Obama has been hailed as just what this country needs in the eyes of the world. But President Obama has perhaps the fullest and most daunting inbox of any president in recent history. Just one month after Obama took office, the 22nd Camden Conference brought together nine world-class speakers to help us understand the challenges facing the United States and our new President.

The program was as follows:

Friday, February 20

• Keynote Address: Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. “Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the New Administration”

Saturday, February 21

• Nicholas Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University “A New Era of Diplomacy for the Obama Administration”
• Tamara Wittes, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution “After Gaza: Obama Administration Policies in the Middle East”
• Denis Lamb, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris “The Tarnished U.S. Economic Model and the Implications for U.S. Foreign Policies”
• Nayan Chanda, Editor of Yale Global Online and Director of Publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization “From Trade to Terrorism: Obama’s Asian Challenge”
• Paula J. Dobriansky,Former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs “Aligning our Values and our Interests Through Global Affairs”
• Timothy Juliani, manager of Relations and Senior Markets and Business Fellow at the Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC) of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change “Climate Change: Renewing U.S. Leadership in Challenging Times”

Sunday, February 22

• John Deutch,Institute Professor at MIT, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Deputy Secretary of Defense “National Security Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Obama Administration” 
• Gareth Evans, President and CEO of International Crisis Group and former Foreign Minister of Australia “What the World Wants From an Obama Foreign Policy”

The moderator for the 2009 Camden Conference was Graham Phaup, Executive Director, Institute for Global Ethics.