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COMMEMNCEMENT SPEECH CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR Harvard Kennedy School: 2025 Commencement Address to Graduates by Christiane Amanpour PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-805aTBIc Peter Burgess COMMENTARY This is powerful! Christiane Amanpour is an impressive human being. I became aware of Christiane Amanour when she was reporting from Bosnia Herzogovene for CNN in the 1980s (I think). This 'commencement' speech at Harvard is very timely. One of the good things about this speech was the relevance of everything that Christiane talked about and how it should inform both her own work and the work that the graduating class will need to do. Brilliant! Peter Burgess
Address to Graduates by Christiane Amanpour at Harvard Kennedy School Streamed live on May 28, 2025 51.5K subscribers ... 41,062 views ... 817 likes Christiane Amanpour, one of the world’s best-known and most respected broadcast journalists, will deliver the Address to Graduates to the HKS Class of 2025. Amanpour’s career in television journalism spans more than four decades. She joined CNN in 1983 and rose to become the network's leading international correspondent, reporting on international wars and crises and interviewing the world’s top leaders. She is currently CNN’s chief international anchor and host of the flagship global affairs program “Amanpour,” which also airs on PBS in the United States. She also hosts “The Amanpour Hour,” a weekly interview program with newsmakers. Read more about Christiane Amanpour: https://ken.sc/44ZKTyX. Find the HKS Commencement Week schedule, read about some of our HKS Class of 2025 graduates, and learn about other important details: ken.sc/commencement. And for general information about Harvard Commencement, events schedules, and locations, visit commencement.harvard.edu. About Harvard Kennedy School: The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a graduate and professional school that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners who combine thought and action to make the world a better place. Our mission is to improve public policy and public leadership across the United States and around the world so that people can lead safer, freer, and more prosperous lives. Harvard Kennedy School teaches current and future leaders the skills they need to effectively advance the public purpose in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Our renowned faculty and trailblazing research centers pioneer bold new ideas. And as the most international school at Harvard, we convene global leaders in the Forum, host visiting experts in the classroom, and attract a diverse community of faculty, students, and staff. Transcript 0:05 . ≫ DEAN JEREMY WEINSTEIN: Class of 2025, congratulations and welcome to your Class Day. (APPLAUSE) . ≫ DEAN JEREMY WEINSTEIN: To the families and friends who traveled from across the world to cheer on your soon-to-be graduates, welcome to HKS. I enjoyed celebrating with some of you already at program receptions and during this morning's Awards Ceremony . And I look forward for all of our students to handing you your diplomas tomorrow to officially mark your graduation from the Harvard Kennedy School. (APPLAUSE) . ≫ DEAN JEREMY WEINSTEIN: As we gather today to celebrate, I want to acknowledge that we do 1:00 so at a moment of great uncertainty. Wherever we live and whatever our politics , the pace of policy and institutional change is diszying, and the outcomes highly -- dizzying and the outcomes highly uncertain. Long-standing norms are being challenged, and legal battles are unfolding . Global alliances are fraying and the rules of the international economy are being rewritten . And here at Harvard, the consequences of these changes are already apparent , with efforts to undermine our rights and autonomy, the loss of funding for science, and threats to the international students who are essential members of the HKS community . (APPLAUSE). 2:05 ≫ DEAN JEREMY WEINSTEIN: Against this backdrop , I think we are particularly fortunate to hear from our 2025 graduation speaker, Christiane Amanpour . (APPLAUSE). ≫ DEAN JEREMY WEINSTEIN: Christiane is a towering figure in the world of journalism. Over the course of her distinguished career, she has delivered real-time reporting from some of the world's most difficult places, the firing lines of the Persian Gulf war, the ruins of Markale Market in Bosnia and the flooded streets of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. And she has conducted incisive interviews with many of the world's political and spiritual leaders, including 3:00 New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , and Pope John Paul II. Several years ago Christiane gave an interview in which she described the Iranian revolution as a turning point in her life. Both personally and professionally . She watched her home country undergo a radical transformation and its core institutions, including the press, crumble . She soon immigrated to the United States, where she studied at the University of Rhode Island. And got her start at WJAR, the local NBC affiliate. She made graphics for weather forecasts, which was by her own admission a surprisingly challenging gig . Meteorology was not in the cards for her. But investigative journalism was. She got her first taste of shoe- leather reporting while interning on a team that 4:04 explored the tangled web of Mafia crime in Providence, Rhode Island . In 1983 Christiane joined CNN. She entered as a desk assistant but knew from her first day that she wanted to be a foreign correspondent . After years of dogged reporting, which carried her to Tehran, Berlin, and New York, she achieved her goal . Today she serves as CNN's chief international anchor and host of the flagship global affairs program 'Aranpour' , which also airs on PBS in the United States. And Christiane has been honored with the highest distinctions in journalism for her work. Sixteen news and documentary Emmys, four Peabody Award s, ten Honorary Degrees, and a few halls of fame. And that's just half of it . 5:08 I first became acquainted with Christiane through her reporting on the Bosnian war in the 1990s. She had a singular ability to cut through the simplistic narratives of moral equivalence. To uplift the stories of civilians caught in the crossfire . And to take leaders to task for their inaction and indifference . She is remembered for her dispatches from Srebrenica and her questioning of President Clinton. But what stood out to me were the human stories. For example, a profile of a taxi driver who crossed ethnic lines to help the needy during the Civil War . Christiane transported viewers from their living rooms to the front lines and showed them the 6:02 human impact of policy decisions made in the world's capitals, exactly the kinds of policy decisions that many of you will make over the course of your career. Reflecting on her coverage from the Bosnian war Christiane has said, I believe in being truthful, not neutral. And I believe we must stop banalizing the truth. Those words hold particular resonance at Harvard today, as we stand up for our freedom to search for truth without interference or intimidation . To Christiane's point -- (APPLAUSE) . ≫ DEAN JEREMY WEINSTEIN: To Christiane's point, we cannot water down our inquiry for the sake of political convenience and we cannot take the truth for granted. 7:04 Just like universities, a robust press is essential to democracy. Nearly 2 00 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville put it well when he said, the more I contemplate the principal effects of the independence of the press, the more I am convinced that among modern peoples, independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constituent element of liberty . So it is my honor today to introduce you to someone who has dedicated her career to uncovering truth, and who embodies the purpose and impact of a free and independent media. Please join me in turning your attention to the screens for a video that chronicles Christiane's amazing work. [MUSIC PLAYS] . 8:03 ≫ The whole world is going to see that you guys won't let us see what's going on. ≫ Christiane Amanpour CNN with elements of the division -- ≫ People were still marching. ≫ This is the entrance to the City of Bosra. ≫ Here we are in Habil a a village that hasn't had any food distribution since June. ≫ When the families have finished looking at the names that are posted on those boards, they come here. This is now a memorial to the victims of the massacre. ≫ Where in the Quran does it justify the killing of innocents. ≫ We are very interested to see what's going on here. ≫ Mr. President, do you not think that the constant flipflops of your Administration on the issue of Bosnia sets a very dangerous precedent. ≫ This is a shocking thing would you condemn for 100,000 plus deaths. ≫ How do you sleep at night. ≫ That's a red herring. ≫ People will be punished. 9:03 ≫ I want to ask you what your reaction is to this. ≫ They are on trial as we speak. ≫ What do you say to the following. ≫ What are you so afraid of, of journalist of the truth. ≫ I saw you listening to that testimony you look pretty broken up yourself what do you think when you hear these now elderly people who have absorbed all this pain for so long. ≫ That's not true. We report the facts. And we report the truth. ≫ She says yes. Women are the future. ≫ You still have huge dreams. They didn't take that away from you. ≫ They only can shoot a body. But they cannot shoot my dreams. ≫ What made you be so passionate about the environment. ≫ In a matter of 26 days, legislation was passed. I wonder whether you ever think that other countries can learn from what you did. [MUSIC PLAYS] . ≫ Holy Father, your Honor the first person to call modern slavery and human trafficking a crime against humanity. ≫ I'm sure you must be their first cycling President. 10:03 ≫ Mr. President . ≫ What a historic day. ≫ After all of your powerful calls to the world for help, are they delivering what you need to win or just not to lose? ≫ Do you feel democracy will win? ≫ I do believe that democracy will win . If we fight for it. [MUSIC PLAYS]. ≫ DEAN JEREMY WEINSTEIN: Please join me in welcoming Christiane Amanpour . (APPLAUSE). 11:03 ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Thank you; thank you. Thank you, all. That's very moving. Thank you, Dean Weinstein for your lovely introduction. I wish you were my speechwriter. (CHUCKLES) . ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Hello to all of you, American and international graduates of 2025. Of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. (APPLAUSE) . ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Let me upgrades say I was going to try -- I was going to try to start with a joke but I'm not good at jokes when I got up a few hours before I came here I took a walk your city is absolutely beautiful I looked down certain side streets it reminded me of such nostalgia of when I was at Providence, Rhode Island at URI to namedrop a little bit it filled with me some nostalgia because my great friend throughout his life was John F. Kennedy Jr. we were at college at the same time. 12:03 He at Brown me at URI, we shared a house. And now here I find myself addressing you all at the school named after his father. And I wonder sometimes what a great leader John, my friend, might have been . I -- (APPLAUSE). ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: And boy do we need great leaders. It's quite something to be in this particular place, addressing this particular group of graduates, at this particular time. I am delighted to have been invited to the Kennedy School of Government, to Harvard, which is leading the struggle. And scoring significant gains in this current battle for academic freedom. And make no doubt about it, make no mistake about it, academics , education, are on the frontlines of the current struggle between the two halves of America. As you know, we over there, in Europe, are happy to lay out the welcome mat for 13:04 all of those here who are having their roles taken away. (APPLAUSE). ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: We want your scientists, your researchers, your professionals. But we hope they get to come back here and start up their vital work, which is afterall for the common good, not for individuals. For the common good. Again, hello to all of you Americans and especially foreign students at this particular time . We need all of your diversity, we need your smarts, we need your energy, and we need your determination. I was a foreign student here. I'm still a foreigner . I was here 45 years ago. I worked hard. I followed the American Dream. I followed my own ambitions. And I made it. It made me. And I more than gave back, as all of you will, too. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970 s in 14:02 prerevolutionary Iran where America was great and we all loved President Kennedy. In Tehran we had a Kennedy Boulevard. There were Kennedy Square s and Avenues and memorials all over the world even in the most unlikely places. I was just listening to a radio interview a few weeks ago and I thought it was a perfect one for today. It was Laurie Anderson, you know, the pioneering performance artist and musician. She basically was waxing rap sodic about what an impact, a game changing, life changing impact then Senator John F. Kennedy had on her life. She said he had come to her home state to campaign. So she decided to write him a letter, dear Senator Kennedy, you're running a great campaign and I'm running for Student Council president and I wonder if you could give me some tips. He replied . He said, don't be an idealist. Be a representative. Find out what the students want and promise it. 15:02 Notice he didn't say deliver it. But anyway . (CHUCKLES). ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So she did. She found out that the students in her high school wanted a different lunchroom, go figure. She arranged it . She then sent Kennedy a second letter. She had some hoopswa, I won the election, she said, I followed your advice. And best of luck in your own election. (CHUCKLES). ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: She says he then sent her a telegram and a dozen roses. How beautiful a story is that, all the civics, all the grace, the encouragement, the can-do spirit of America summed up in a few lines to a high school Student Government leader. What an amazing education and exposure you all have had here at this phenomenal Graduate School. Joseph Nye your former and your late dean personified Soft Power , an indispensable tool that in 16:05 all my reporting and travels to far flung and distant lands I have come to greatly appreciate. But this is what I find so interesting, and so counterintuitive in today's zero sum world. He said that the important thing is the power to solve problems. He said, this makes power a positive sum game. He told policymakers and let's, who you will be and who you are, to pay more attention to economic inequality, to help those disrupted by change and to stimulate broad-based economic growth. And he warned that Americans and others may not notice the security and the prosperity that the liberal order provides until they are gone. But by then, it might be too late. American grads and international grads, that's your challenge and your destiny . Peacemakers, statesmen and women, and yes, Government 17:07 workers, because Government can be good . Nothing like a little housekeeping, a little reform to clean up around the edges. But wholesale destruction will only do harm. And may be irreversible. USAID, the Peace Corps, Government in general is being stripped bare, and yet here you all are. And you will find your ways to make a difference. You know that President Kennedy started USAID to launch America's soft power partly in response to a book he had read. It was a political thriller. And it was called: The Ugly American. We want we want the beautiful American, the beautiful America. You are graduating from this school at a particularly fraught time. You will have to learn how to play cat and mouse with the current crackdowns and the current system as I have witnessed 18:03 civilians all over many parts of the world play cat and mouse with their own authoritarian regimes in order to advance their own freedoms and to be able to really strive for a future that they know they need. You will have to decide what and how you choose to lead. What to stand up for. What to believe in. The rule of law. Freedom of speech. Equal rights. Constitutional democracy. Civil rights. As Kennedy said in his own soaring inaugural, let public service be the very best service. So let me explain why this matters , especially to a group of future leaders, civil and Foreign Service professionals. That's because generosity , humanity, moral values, promoting democracy is a huge part of what America stands for. What makes you special, exceptional even. It is your brand. So if you ever doubt the value of this education and your 19:05 training at this particular time, I highly recommend an inspiring new book. It's called : Who is Government. And it was curated by the best-selling author and former financier Michael Lewis. The stories are exceptional they tell the tales of the unsung hundreds of thousands maybe millions of workers who toil and travel to make things happen. To make a great country work. I interviewed Michael Lewis about it but I want to read a little bit from his blurb . He basically says, the profiles themselves serve as a balm for the chaos of our Government now. To read them is to drift off into an alternative universe filled with the most thoughtful and caring people doing hard things all for the right reasons. A former IRS commissioner is quoted who says, the quality of life that we have, it's all Government. 20:01 Government touches you a hundred times before breakfast. And you don't even know it. The book shows how much safer, how much more secure daily life is today than it was even a generation ago. But more than that, the book is filled with thousands of reminders of why we have Government . Because no one else will do this work. There is no profit motive in much of the work. No private business that will step in and spend years or decades solving these difficult challenges . That's true today. And it always will be. So you keep the faith. Both American and international graduates, I suggest at this time to go East, my friends, to go abroad. Go abroad and start your career. I say that in many graduations and I'm saying it today for a reason. Find your Government work and your public service while you need to in other countries. The world needs you and 21:02 most certainly America needs ambassadors like you . Look, as I said, I was raised and lived much of my life in monarchies, in revolutions and authoritarian environments. As a journalist, I've been covering these situations. I have spent a lifetime watching the King cause otherwise smart, educated educated, strong, moral, rich people to laugh at even his silliest comments. I've seen them acclaim his dumbest ideas. I've seen them bend to his bullying and exhaust all manner of ob sequ iusness before realizing that they have lost their souls and that the King doesn't care, he still has contempt. As I said, I was a foreign student here in the United States 45 years ago. I came when the -- as Dean Weinstein said took over my country, the Ayatollahs and my country and my childhood and future 22:01 livelihood were all tossed dangerously into the air. But here as a half Iranian , at that time I was very much part of the targeted group given that the Islamic Republic of Iran was holding 52 American diplomats hostage, they held them for more than a year. It was bad timing. I still hear the chants on campus and elsewhere of bomb, bomb, Iran. You remember there was a group, I think it was the Beach Boys was it, Barbara Anne anyway, bomb, bomb, Iran was set to that music. I still remember stones and projectiles being tossed on campus and elsewhere at fellow Iranian students and by the way anyone who looked like they might be Iranian. I also think, of course, that opportunities must be places of idea almost diversity. If not here, where? If not when you are students, then at what point in your lives? Now, as often as I can, do that in my own program. Without fear nor favor. I bring together people from opposite sides. 23:02 Not in a cable slugfest. But to talk and to listen and to understand . I believe really strongly that you can only move the dial forward when you learn the story of the other. It's all about empathy, which is the foundational stone for any peacebuilding. For any nation building . I'm even now going a step further. I have a new podcast, yes, I'm late. But I have a new podcast and it's called the Ex-Files. And it's called the Ex-Files because I'm doing it with my ex-husband. (CHUCKLES) . ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: And the point is we discuss the hardest foreign policy issues from our perspectives as he a former Government official until just recently and me as a journalist. From our perspectives as Government and journalist when we were married and I figured if a divorced couple can do that, then surely anybody can . 24:02 And I think it is precisely the kind of North Star for you Government graduates and frankly for all of us to fix your/our gazes upon. I also happen to believe that academic institutions and all institutions need to do a better job of practical education and understanding about the world. Are you really modeling how to bridge any major divide? If not, how will generations learn to get into the mindset of a problem solver and a peace builder? One of my favorite quotes comes during the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, it was in 1993. And afterwards, the chief Israeli negotiator Uri Savir wrote a book. In which he said he was struck by the words of his Palestinian PLO counterpart , Abu Ala and this is the quote: I believe we have arrived at the root of the problem. We have learned that our rejection of you will not bring 25:05 us freedom. You can see that your control of us will not bring you security. We must live side by side in peace, equality, and co-operation. I believe those words ring true still to this day. And that was about 30 years ago. How many people today know really about the Oslo Accords? Or that 30 years ago the bitterest sectarian divide that killed thousands of people in Northern Ireland ended in a peace accord. And it was shepherded by President Clinton, by Senator George Mitchell, by the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ireland. That was leadership. And just a few years before that, in South Africa, Nelson Mandela emerged from 28 unjust years in prison. He modeled the ultimate in reconciliation and in peacebuilding. He almost single handedly and most certainly persuaded the 26:04 radicals on all sides to protect their moment of liberation. He talked them down from the very real threat of Civil War after he was released from jail and navigated his nation out of the brutal oppression of apartheid. I think of that when I see Africana minorities who were the perpetrators of apartheid being brought into this country as refugees. I think of that when I see Seril Ramapos a the chief negotiator in the post apartheid reconciliation have his time in the White House. Bridge building, peacemaking, seeking power, seeking above all Joseph Nye 's exhortation on the power to solve problems, to make power a positive sum game. A win-win. Are all vital . Now, I believe journalism is a public service. And even more, as Dean Weinstein 27:02 said, a vital pillar of any Civil Society and functioning democracy . So did Thomas Jefferson, in 1786 he said, our liberty depends on the Freedom of the Press. Why did I become a journalist. To fly around the world and have fun on someone else's dime. That is true. (CHUCKLES). ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: But also to tell stories from around the world. To be part of a community of eyewitnesses and problem solvers . I believe in journalism as a force for good. And good also means holding power to account . News was never political for me. Throughout my CNN career, and with all my side gigs at 60 minutes, ABC, PBS. I figured with all these platforms I must reach just about every corner of the Earth, every political planet, every socioeconomic cultural demographic here. So that meant that I needed to be credible and trustworthy to all 28:02 . Reporting the genocide in Bosnia which no western nation wanted to stop until it was almost too late I came up with my own code of objectivity. And my mantra is to be truthful and not neutral. That's when I learned to refuse to refuse to equate victim and aggressor. And the glass is more than half full when it comes to journalism today . Everywhere we look, left, right and center, we see democratic institutions, the distressing sight of them bending. But guess who is not bending, we the press, you, Harvard, academia. Some corporate owners of ours may be. And they are coming after us. But you can still find plenty of excellent fact-based, evidence-driven, consequential and even game-changing journalism right now. In the 1984 Animal Farm vortex that we are caught up in right now, the truth will still get out. No matter how many words are banned, how many news 29:04 organizations are shuttered and threatened, how many journalists are threatened and intimidated. We will not be silenced. Not then. Not now. Not ever. And no Administration should be surprised. (APPLAUSE). ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: That is just who we are. I may be a Pollyanna. But I do believe that our professions , your profession, your professions, academia and everyone, should have at our core a common defense strategy and a common defense fund. I believe that an attack on one should be taken as an attack on all. But then again, my beliefs were forged in the field under fire . On the battlefield you can only survive if allies and friends and co-workers have your back . Teamwork to make the dream work. 30:02 Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, VoA, all vital tools of American soft power, they are resisting all the threats against them. And if those threats are successful, they will only thrill the dictators and the il Liberal Democrats in whose sides this independent journalism has always been a thorn. How about this story, in the summer of 1991 when the Soviet Army led a coup against the reforming President Mikhail Gorbachev they shut down their media, it was state media, they still shut it down. The news of what was happening was only available on Radio Liberty . Boris Yeltsin another reformer then went on Radio Liberty to call on all the people to come out. And to position themselves between the Parliament and the Soviet tanks. The coup failed. And the Soviet Union collapsed several months later. Now, these organizations are not luxuries , they are truth 31:04 food. For all of those stuck behind iron curtains, bamboo curtains and any other state-run propaganda machines around the world. They have sustained many imprisoned revolutionary and Democrat who became future democratic leaders. At this point I would like to again refer you to not a book this time but a play . It's called: Good Night and Good Luck. And it is on Broadway right now. George Clooney plays our patron saint of broadcast journalism Edward R Murrow and let me just say if you can't afford the ticket which you may not be able to, it's really expensive , Good Night and Good Luck will be streamed from Broadway June 7th on CNN and I really am pleased because this is an incredible story. Not only was Murrow a brilliant World War II foreign correspondent but after the war he did battle here at home against Senator Joe McCarthy and the 32:01 Red Scare. In the play, Murrow quotes Shakespeare's Caesar: Cassius was right, the fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Now, we still have a First Amendment and a Free Press. But we have to defend our right to free speech. And if not, we will be as culpable and as much to blame for losing it as anyone. I don't want to keep fighting, keep putting my head above the parapet but apparently I do and I have to so I do. So no matter what profession all and any of you choose, as Robert F. Kennedy once said, moral courage can often be harder even than physical bravery, and believe me, sometimes, somewhere, each and every one of you will be called upon to speak up, to not follow the herd , to be break with the tribe, to be brave. So always remember as Edward R Murrow said that dissent is not disloyalty. 33:07 Dissent is actually an invaluable part of our democratic process. We cannot surrender to any system that deems only power-approved speech or thought is allowed. The whole point of journalism and any other academic enterprise is to investigate power, speak truth to power. Hold power accountable . Without fear nor favor. And this is not the first time the press, the 4th Estate, has come under such sustained threat from the Executive Branch. After President Nixon's re-election in 1972 and amid the Washington Post's remarkable Watergate reporting, the Nixon Administration challenged TV licenses that the Washington Post had as well as a whole lot of other pressure. There are tapes of Nixon telling his people to ban the Washington Post, reporters and photographers from the White House press room . And New York Times article 34:01 quotes publisher cath er publisher Katherine Graham said in her memoir the Administration's power and anger were at their greatest after the landslide election and we were at our weakest we were scared. And yet they continued. I understand that. I am scared when I go to war zones for instance. I am sometimes scared when I talk truth to power. Thomas Jefferson warned that freedom is lost slowly . Some have talked about the frog in the pot where the water is slowly turned up and the heat slowly comes to boiling before they even recognize it. 150 years later Benito Mussolini crowed that democracy brings us so much freedom, even the freedom to destroy itself . Edward R Murrow said on his programs holding Senator Joe McCarthy to account, no one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices . 35:05 So everybody, that's my message to you. Let's get on with it. While the glass is still half full . Good luck to you. (APPLAUSE). ≫ CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Thank you. Thank you. (APPLAUSE). 36:00 ≫ DEAN JEREMY WEINSTEIN: Thank you, Christiane, for your powerful remarks. Your advocacy for truth, democracy and freedom is more important than ever . And our graduates will continue to draw on your words as they embark on their next chapters. I look forward to seeing all of you early tomorrow morning for the morning exercises and then to be back here to get your diplomas. Thank you, congratulations again. And enjoy the reception. (APPLAUSE) .

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