| January 4 | Gail Lapidus, Ph.D., Chairman Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies Russia Today: The Dilemma of State and Nation Building |
| January 18 | Terry Karl, Ph.D., Chairman, Latin American Studies, Stanford University Resolving Civil Conflicts: Lesson from El Salvador |
| February 1 | Joe Morchi, Founder, Director, Center For the American Musical The Road to Oklahoma |
| February 15 | Henry Greely,Ph.D., Professor of taw, Stanford University Reforming Healthcare |
| March 1 | Richard Reeves, Author, Journalist The Young Presidents: Kennedy and Clinton in the White House |
| March 15 | James Burke, Science Historian, TV Writer, Host, Producer Riding the Network: Journey Through Knowledge |
| April 5 | Desmond Lathom, Journalist, Broadcaster Radio 702; South Africa, Knight Fellow, Stanford University Sarenjevo, Mogadishu, South Africa |
| April 19 | Bill Frost, Monterey Bay Aquarium An Insider View of the Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| May 3 | Paul Hawken, Co-founder of Smith and Hawken, Author Ecology of Commerce: Changing the Way We Do Business |
| May 17 | Paul Erdman, Ph.D., Economist, Author Where the Economy is Headed |
| June 7 | Ronald Rebholz, Ph.D., Chairman Department of English Stanford University Sex, Lies, and the Theatre: Shakespeare and His Times |
