When: September 29, 2009   7:30 pm

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Michael Levi

Michael A. Levi is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations. His keen understanding of the foreign policy and global energy landscapes have made him a sought-after authority on the intersection of these issues. His two books and numerous articles have frequently challenged conventional wisdom on national security, nuclear arms, technology and development, energy security, and climate change.

Levi will present the opening lecture for the Bank of America Lecture Series on Responding to the Global Energy Challenge: Technology, Policy and Security. Levi's address will focus on how energy challenges -- from global dependence on oil from hostile regimes to the threat of catastrophic climate change to the over-one-billion people still living without electricity -- will force us to change how we think about foreign policy, and force world leaders to find new approaches to these ever-evolving challenges.

Contact: Cristy Atkinson  704-894-2440

Posted By: Larissa Hohe