Baker Conference to Feature Distinguished Panelists

CONTACT: Michael Cinelli
PHONE: (713) 831-4794

BAKER CONFERENCE TO FEATURE DISTINGUISHED PANELISTS

Distinguished national and international
statesmen, scholars and journalists will participate in the
inaugural Annual Conference of the James A. Baker III Institute for
Public Policy at Rice University scheduled for Nov. 13-14.

The panel discussions will be moderated by Marvin Kalb of the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The inaugural Annual Conference will consist of three panel
discussions:

Nov. 13, 1995
9 a.m. Panel 1: Economic Reform in Russia and China

Scheduled panelists: Noboru Takeshita,
Alexander Bessmertnykh, Michael Armacost, Rudi
Dornbusch, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Benjamin Lee, Gerald
Parsky, Peter Rosenblatt, Robert Zoellick.

2:30 p.m. Panel II: Politico-Military Factors and the Future
of Warfare
Scheduled panelists: Colin Powell, Richard
Holbrooke, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Roland Dumas, Richard
Cheney, Ralph Begleiter, Charles Hermann, Catherine
McArdle Kelleher, Don Oberdorfer, Bruce Russett, Martin
van Crevald, Paul Wolfowitz.

Nov. 14, 1995
9 a.m. Panel III: Cultural, Ethnic and Religious Factors in International Affairs
Scheduled panelists: Taro Nakayama, Richard
Holbrooke, R. Scott Appleby, Georgie Ann Geyer,
Dominique de Menil, John Esposito, Samuel Heilman,
Judith Miller, Martha Brill Olcott, Richard Smith.

On Monday, Nov. 13, 1995, the first Enron Prize for
Distinguished Public Service, made possible by a gift to The Baker
Institute from Houston-based Enron Corp., will be awarded to an
outstanding American.
Conference information is now posted on the World Wide Web.

Located as a part of the Baker Institute’s home page on RiceInfo,
the Annual Conference home page contains press releases, a program
schedule and updates about the conference. It may be accessed at http://www.rice.edu/baker95.

The Baker Institute is a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary public
policy institute dedicated to building bridges between the worlds of
action and ideas. It is endowed in the name of James A. Baker III,
the 61st U.S. Secretary of State.

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