The Latest from the Pacific Council
Upcoming Events & Activities
October 15, 2025
Join the Pacific Council on Wednesday, October 15, at 8 am PT, to explore the impact of increasing global dependence on AI and the loosening of climate regulatory policy in the U.S. with the passage of the Big, Beautiful Bill. The audience will hear from Samantha Gross, Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative and a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution; Allan T. Marks, Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and Law Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA; and Rachit Dubey, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at UCLA.
Online Webinar
October 21, 2025
On October 21 at 9 AM, the Pacific Council will host a webinar featuring Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, and Jerrold D. Green, Interim President & CEO of the Pacific Council. A leading scholar of democracy and governance, Diamond will explore the resurgence of authoritarianism, democratic backsliding in established systems, and the erosion of trust in democratic institutions.
9:00am to 10:00am
Online Webinar
October 22, 2025
Join the Pacific Council on Wednesday, October 22, at 6 pm PT for a book talk with Frank Lavin, Former Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce and author of Inside the Reagan White House: A Front-Row Seat to Presidential Leadership with Lessons for Today.
6:00pm
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