Private Dinner
Throughout the year WACC offers exclusive opportunities for small group discussion time with our renowned speakers, experts and foreign dignitaries at our Private Dinners.
Past private dinners include the following:
- An Evening with Robert Walker, President of the Population Institute
- An Evening with Col. Mark Mykleby, USMC, Ret., Senior Fellow, Smart Strategy Initiative at the New America Institute
- An Evening with Russell Gold, Wall Street Journal journalist and author of “The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World”
- An Evening with George Friedman, Founder and Chairman of Stratfor and author of “Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe”
- An evening with Lyle Goldstein, Professor and Author of “Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry”
- An Evening with Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, German Federal Minister of Defense (2009-2011); German Federal Minister of Economics & Technology (2009)
- An evening with Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador of Singapore to the U.S.
- Private Dinner with Carrie Hessler-Radelet, Director of Peace Corps
- An evening with Matthew Bishop, Globalization Editor at The Economist
Photo: An Evening with Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor and ‘Schumpeter’ columnist for The Economist magazine
Private Dinner Events
June 11, 2025: WACC Private Dinner with John J. Sullivan, former US ambassador to the Russian Federation (2020-2022) and U.S. Deputy Secretary Secretary of State (2017-2019)
Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte for an exclusive private dinner on June 11 with Ambassador John J. Sullivan, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2020-2022) and Deputy Secretary of State (2017-2019), as he shares a candid and timely account of America’s evolving relationship with Russia through the lens of his book, Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West.
May 28, 2025: WACC Private Dinner — David Salvo, Bret Schafer, and Krystyna Sikora (Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States)
Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte on Wednesday, May 28 for an intimate dinner featuring experts from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States as they lead a powerful and in-depth discussion on how foreign adversaries worldwide are actively shaping public discourse and influencing communities here in North Carolina and across the country.
April 9, 2025: WACC Private Dinner with Steven Hill (K&L Gates), Michael Cornett (Forvis Mazars), and Jon Morton (Forvis Mazars)
Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte for an intimate dinner on April 9th as we delve into the complexities of recent tariff measures and their impact on global trade. This exclusive evening will provide a rare opportunity to engage in candid conversation with industry experts from Forvis Mazars and K&L Gates, gaining valuable insights into how businesses can navigate shifting trade policies, supply chain disruptions, and market volatility.
March 13, 2025: WACC Private Dinner with Dr. Nina Ansary Award-winning Iranian-American Author, Historian, Women’s Rights Advocate, Director of the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum Women’s Leadership Initiative at the University of Cambridge, and Former Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte for an intimate private dinner and discussion on Thursday, March13, 2025 with with Dr. Nina Ansary, Author, UN Women Global Champion for Innovation, and Director of the WACA Global Women’s Lecture Series of America Global Women's Lecture Series. Dr. Ansary will offer her perspective on the challenges faced by Iranian women on a daily basis, analyzing social, cultural, and legal obstacles they encounter. Gain valuable insights into their realities and the barriers they must overcome and learn more about actionable ways that the global community can contribute to their empowerment.