Distinguished Speakers

Elon recognizes the importance of bringing world leaders and scholars to campus for personal interaction with students. To enrich and amplify academic programs, many speakers are brought to campus for question-and-answer sessions with students in addition to addressing the Elon community as a whole.

Please check E-net! (Elon's news and information Web site) and the Cultural Events Calendar for details on upcoming speakers.

Here are just a few of the speakers who have visited Elon:

George Bush, 41st President of the United States	Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel	Benazir Bhutto, former president of Pakistan	Lech Walesa, former president of Poland
Queen Noor of Jordan	Archbishop Desmond Tutu	Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel	Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins	Former EPA administrator and New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman	Cornell West, scholar and best-selling author	David Gergen, Former presidential advisor
Primatologist Jane Goodall	Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite	Ben Bradlee, Vice President and Former Executive Editor of The Washington Post	Steve Bell, former host of ABC's "Good Morning America" and Elon's Visiting Professor of Leadership

Pulitzer Prize winners:

Thomas Friedman

David McCullough

Anna Quindlen

David Halberstam

Edmund Morris

Edward O. Wilson

Samantha Power

Coming Soon:

April 4, 2006
Former U.S. Secretary of State and former chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell