Bernard Kouchner
Past Foreign Minister of France
September 2011
Matt Ridley
Economist, journalist and
award-winning author
November 2011
David Gergen
Senior Political Analyst,
CNN
March 2012
Anne Applebaum
Columnist and
Pulitzer Prize Winner
May 2012
Calgary’s acclaimed salon returns for its fifth season at Teatro restaurant. The first dinner and talk will explore the turmoil gripping the Eurozone with global leader Bernard Kouchner. Next up is big thinker Matt Ridley who will provide a spirited defense of western progress against doomsayers on the right and left. The third event in the Series will check in on the 2012 race to the White House with David Gergen, CNN's senior political analyst. The Series will conclude by hosting one of the world's foremost experts on Russia and its reemergence as an energy superpower, the Pulitzer Prize winning author Anne Applebaum
