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Just weeks before the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, the second annual Pearson Global Forum was both a reflection on the prospects for change once envisioned, as well as a discussion of our current global reality. As the international community continues to deal with dozens of active conflicts, and the quickly shifting relationships between and among nations, it essential to look beyond existing walls – both symbolic and literal – and deconstruct conflict in order to find paths towards resolution, peace, and stability.

On November 6, 2019, EPIC and The Pearson Institute hosted a conversation on energy geopolitics and their economic implications with Robert McNally, the president of The Rapidan Group and a former senior director for international energy at the National Security Council; Suzanne Maloney, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution; and Harris Public Policy Professor Ryan Kellogg, an EPIC affiliated scholar who studies the economics of oil markets. The event was moderated by EPIC Visiting Fellow in Journalism and The Atlantic reporter Robinson Meyer.