The Kageyama-Hunt Lecture Series, established in 2012 by Belmont Hill parents Bill Hunt and Yuko Kageyama-Hunt P ‘11, ‘18, brings speakers to campus who model global citizenship and can inspire generations of Belmont Hill boys to embrace the challenges and opportunities of an interconnected world. Click here to learn more about the Belmont Hill Speaker Program.
Since the Series’ inception, the following international speakers have spoken before and with the school community:
2025 - Spanish-Peruvian photojournalist Moises Saman, whose work has documented two decades of conflicts and human upheaval from Afghanistan to Syria, Iraq to Haiti.
2024 - Indian physician and healthcare administrator Karan Thakur, MD, who is the Group Sustainability Lead for India’s largest group of hospitals.
2023 - former Taiwanese legislator-at-large and public policy expert, Jason Hsu.
2021-2022 - South African federal judge and former human rights lawyer Taswell Papier and stem cell researcher and Nobel Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD.
2020-2021 - Program postponed due to Covid-19
2019 - Hicham Alaoui, scholar on democratization and secularization at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, son of the late Prince Moulay Abdallah, son of King Mohammad V of Morocco.
2018 - Katie Murphy and Nada Elattar, co-founders of Ahlan Simsim, a joint program of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Sesame Street that educates child refugees from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq.
2017 - Hallah Hrund Logadottir, co-founder and co-director of the Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, former director of the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavík University.
2016 - David Keith, Harvard professor of climate engineering and public policy, CEO of Carbon Engineering.
2015 - Kim Phuc, "Napalm Girl" from Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.
James Stavridis, Admiral (USN) and Dean of Fletcher School of Diplomacy.
2014 - Maria Antonia Gardia de la Torre, Colombian human rights journalist.
2013 - Felipe Calderón, former president of Mexico (2006-2012).