When McKinsey Came to China

October 2022

Past Event

When McKinsey Came to China

Past Event

Online Only

October 24, 2022

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Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 30, 2022. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via Getty Images)

October 2022

Past Event

Speakers:

Michael Forsythe

Investigations Reporter, New York Times, and Co-author, When McKinsey Comes to Town

The United States has led international efforts to expose and condemn Chinese Communist Party abuses, from the Uyghur genocide to the militarization of the South China Sea. But too often foreign companies—including some US firms—have helped Beijing carry out or cover up these activities.

Please join Hudson Research Fellow Nate Sibley and Michael Forsythe, co-author of When McKinsey Comes to Town, for a discussion on the consultancy giant’s work in China and how it illustrates the broader challenges of the private sector’s engagement with powerful authoritarian regimes.

June 2026

Virtual Event | Hudson Institute

Authoritarian Persistence in Latin America: What Should the US Do?

Featured Speakers:

Elliot Abrams

Daniel Batlle

June 2026

Virtual Event | Hudson Institute

Authoritarian Persistence in Latin America: What Should the US Do?

Please join Adjunct Fellow Daniel Batlle for a conversation with Elliott Abrams, whose leadership on Latin America policy stretches from his service as assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs under President Ronald Reagan to his role as special representative for Venezuela in the first Trump administration.

Featured Speakers:

Elliot Abrams

Daniel Batlle

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June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Spain’s Latin American Reckoning

Featured Speakers:

Julio Crespo MacLennan

Daniel Batlle

June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Spain’s Latin American Reckoning

Join Hudson as Adjunct Fellow Daniel Batlle sits down with Julio Crespo MacLennan, a historian and one of the leading scholars on Spain’s democratic transition and on Europe’s relationship with the wider world.

Featured Speakers:

Julio Crespo MacLennan

Daniel Batlle

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June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Growing the DIB: A Conversation with Deputy Assistant Secretary of War James Mismash

Featured Speakers:

Nadia Schadlow

James Mismash

June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Growing the DIB: A Conversation with Deputy Assistant Secretary of War James Mismash

Please join Hudson Institute for a fireside chat between Hudson Senior Fellow Nadia Schadlow and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Industrial Base Growth and Director of the Office of Small Business Programs James Mismash.

Featured Speakers:

Nadia Schadlow

James Mismash

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June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Winning the Innovation Competition

Featured Speakers:

Bryan Clark

Dan Patt

Emil Michael

June 2026

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Winning the Innovation Competition

Please join Hudson Institute Senior Fellows Bryan Clark and Dan Patt for a conversation with Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael about the Department of War’s efforts to bring AI to the battlefield and implement an innovation strategy that makes the most of America’s commercial and government research sectors.