On 6 December 2005 Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has agreed to deliver the 2005 Alastair Buchan Memorial lecture at the IISS. Dr. ElBaradei and the IAEA have recently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
This lecture was established in 1976 to commemorate Alastair Buchan, the Institute's first Director (1958-69). The inaugural lecture was given by Dr Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State. Subsequent speakers have included the Rt Hon. Lord Carrington, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Ambassador Paul H. Nitze, Professor Raymond Barre, Dr Manfred Wörner, Senator Sam Nunn, Professor Sir Michael Howard, General Colin L. Powell, Volker Rühe, Shimon Peres, the Rt Hon. Douglas Hurd, General Wesley K. Clark, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Professor Andrey A. Kokoshin, Martti Ahtisaari, the former President of Finland, and Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin, French Ministre des Affaires Étrangères.
