List of Groups and Topics

Here is a partial list of academic, corporate and governmental entities Llewellyn King has addressed, and some of the topics of his speeches follow:

Academia

Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yale University
Stanford University
George Washington University
American University
University of Florida
Stevens Institute of Technology
Wakefield School

Corporations

Bechtel
Babcock & Wilcox
Combustion Engineering
General Electric
General Atomics
General Dynamics
Westinghouse
Planmetrics
Bethlehem Steel
United Technologies
StatoilHydro, Oslo, Norway
Carolina Power & Light
Pacific Gas & Electric
Salt River Project
Lehman Brothers
Salomon Brothers
New York Society of Security Analysts
UBS
Drexel Burnham Lambert
CoBank
American Machine and Foundry
Tenaska

Government

U.S. Senate (testimony)
U.S. House (testimony)
U.S. Department of Energy, General Counsel’s Office
National Laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Los Alamos, Idaho, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest
Bonneville Power Administration
Texas State Legislature
Southern Governors Association
Australian Parliament
Singapore Energy Department

Trade Associations

National Mining Association
Edison Electric Institute
American Gas Association
Nuclear Energy Institute
American Petroleum Institute
American Public Power Association
Large Public Power Council
American Gas Association
Natural Gas Supply Association
National Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives
American Council of Independent Laboratories
Association of European Journalists
American Newspaper Guild
Specialized Information Publishers Association
American Bakers Association
Rotary Club
Houston Chamber of Commerce

U.S. And World Conferences

NATO, Brussels, Belgium
The Business Council, New York, NY
World Energy Council: Tokyo and London
Detwiler Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
The Uranium Institute, London
Coaltrans, Hamburg, Germany
The Atlantic Council, Washington, DC
Alan Fried Associates, Washington, DC
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
Jacques Cousteau Society, Hampton, VA
Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO and Wye River, MD
Keystone Center, Keystone, CO

Topics

Man and science
Individual fulfillment, adventure therapy
Global energy outlook, domestic energy outlook
Commodities in crisis
Understanding media
The impact of technology on people
Moving people: The transportation challenge

Silicon Valley and Its Unique Challenge to Freedom of Speech

Llewellyn King

H.L. Mencken, journalist and essayist, wrote in 1940, “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.” Twenty years later, the same thought was reprised by A.J. Liebling of The New Yorker. Today, these thoughts can be revived to apply, on a scale inconceivable in 1940 or 1960, to Big Tech, and to […]

The Capitol Enshrines All the Best of Our Aspirations

Llewellyn King

Cry, the beloved building. I have been lucky and have walked the halls of the Houses of Parliament in London, visited the Elysée Palace in Paris, the Bundestag in Berlin, and the Kremlin in Moscow. But it is the Capitol, the building on a hill in Washington, that fills me with awe but it isn’t […]

Big Tech Should Be Left Alone While It Is Still Creating

Llewellyn King

When it comes to invention, we ain’t seen nothing yet. The chances are good, and getting better, that in the coming year and the years after it, our world will essentially reinvent itself. That revolution already is underway but, as with most progress, there are political challenges. Congress needs restraint in dealing with the technological […]

Face Masks: What’s Good for Us Isn’t Good for the Geese

Linda Gasparello

When I lived in Manhattan, I pursued an unusual pastime. I started it to avoid eye contact with Unification Church members who peddled flowers and their faith on many street corners in the 197os. If a Moonie (as a church member was known derisively) were to approach me, I’d cast my eyes down to the […]