The Women's Foreign Policy Group hosts the following international affairs program series:

Authors Series features women authors on international affairs issues. Recent speakers have included:

• Diana Villiers Negroponte, Nonresident Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
  Author, Insecurity in Central America: Organized Criminal Gangs and the Maras
  
• Daniel P. Erikson, Senior Associate, U.S. Policy, at the Inter-American Dialogue
  Author, The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution
  
• Kimberly Dozier, CBS News Correspondent, Middle East
  Author, Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report—and Survive—the War in Iraq
  
• Linda Robinson
  Author, Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for the Way Out of Iraq
  
• Elisabeth Bumiller, Correspondent, The New York Times
  Author, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life
  
• Barbara Slavin, Correspondent, USA Today
  Author, Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
  
• Dr. Susan L. Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
  Author, China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise
  
• Karen DeYoung, Associate Editor, The Washington Post
  Author, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
  
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Former CNN Johannesburg Bureau Chief and Correspondent, NPR
  Author, New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
  
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
  Author of Infidel
  
• Carol Lancaster, Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University
  Author, Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, and Domestic Politics
  
• Andrea Mitchell, NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
  Author of Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
  
• Martha Raddatz, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent
  Author, The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family
  

Embassy Series events take place at embassies in Washington, DC and highlight international issues pertinent to the host country. This series rotates to cover different regions of the world. Recent events have been held at:

• The Residence of the Ambassdor of Mexico
  "Mexican – US Relations: A Conversation with the Ambassador" with H.E. Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico
  
• The Embassy of Italy
  "Italian – US Relations: A Conversation with the Ambassador" with H.E. Giovanni Castellaneta, Ambassador of Italy
  
• The Residence of the Ambassador of France
  “France's Presidency of the EU: A Conversation with the Ambassador” with H.E. Piere Vimont, Ambassador of France
  
• The Residence of H.E. Hunaina Al-Mughairy, Ambassador of Oman
  
• The Residence of the Ambassador of Iceland
  "Women in Leadership and their Impact on World Affairs" with Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iceland
  
• The Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
  "Egypt and the US: Partners for Peace and Stability" with Dr. Sallama Shaker, Egyptian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Americas
  
• The Embassy of Colombia
  “The US-Colombian Partnership” with H.E. Carolina Barco, Ambassador of Colombia to the U.S. and former Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs
  

State Department Series features senior-level women officials in the U.S. Department of State, including:

• Henrietta Holsman Fore, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Management on “How Do You Transform a Department and Transform Our Diplomacy for the Future?”
  
• Dina Powell, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs on “Current Public Diplomacy and Educational Exchange Initiatives”
  
• Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration on “The US Role in the Protection of Refugee and Displaced Women and Girls”
  

Mentoring Fairs are held annually in both Washington, DC and New York City. To promote the next generation of leaders, WFPG members and friends share their career experiences with undergraduate and graduate students interested in international affairs.