page_title: Landon Lecture Series
section_title: Landon Lecture speakers
hierarchical_section_title: Landon Lecture Series / Landon Lecture speakers
caption_attribution_description: English: Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaking at the Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University on November 26, 2007.
context_page_description: The Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series is a series of speeches on current public affairs, which is organized and hosted by Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. It is named after Kansas politician Alf Landon, former Governor of Kansas and Republican presidential candidate. The first lecture in the series was given by Landon on December 13, 1966.
  The lecture series has been described as "prestigious," and Eric Lichtblau noted in his 2008 book Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice that the "Landon Lecture Series has provided an unlikely but powerful platform allowing world leaders, from Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger, to expound on the critical public issues of the day."
  Among the speakers who have delivered Landon Lectures are nine Nobel laureates, eight Pulitzer Prize-winners, and more than 40 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
context_section_description: Through March 2017 there have been 177 Landon Lectures, featuring 180 speakers. The most recent speaker was Joyce Banda, the former president of Malawi, who spoke on January 29, 2018. Unless otherwise noted, the speaker held the office indicated below at the time the Landon Lecture was delivered:
caption: Defense Secretary Robert Gates delivering a Landon Lecture in November 2007
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