The USC Center on Public Diplomacy welcomed Paul Smith, USA Director of the British Council. Paul Smith has been Director of the British Council in the USA and Cultural Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, DC since August 2012.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to welcome Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is a non-profit corporation tasked with managing the logistics of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and domain names.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host a conversation with Nicholas J. Cull, Director of the Master's Program in Public Diplomacy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Professor Cull discussed his newly released book, The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy 1989-2001 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy welcomed Michael B. Oren, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, to campus for a moderated conversation about U.S.-Israeli relations.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy hosted a discussion about public diplomacy and foreign policy objectives of a second Obama administration.

This panel of USC experts analyzed possible new directions, highlighting Russia, Mexico, China, the Middle East, and the overall governance of U.S. foreign policy.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and the USC Dornsife School of International Relations is pleased to host Thomas de Waal.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host Cynthia L. Hogle, International Advisor to the Afghanistan World Foundation and member of the American Support for Afghanistan board.

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy was pleased to host a conversation with Tara D. Sonenshine, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and moderated by CPD Director, Philip Seib.