Speaker Portfolio

Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School and Director, Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Rawi E. Abdelal

Combatant Commander, U.S. Central Command

General John Abizaid, USA (Ret.)

Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Institution and Adjunct Professor of Global Policy, Johns Hopkins, SAIS

Dr. Madiha Afzal

The Majid Khadduri Professor and Director of Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Fouad Ajami

U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001); Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group & Chair, Albright Capital Management LLC

Secretary Madeleine K. Albright

CEO, Jacksonville Port Authority

A. Paul Anderson

West Coast Editor, The Economist

John Andrews

President, North America & Global Franchise Development, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

Laura Angelini

Columnist, The Washington Post and Slate

Anne Applebaum

Washington Correspondent, The Economist

James Astill

Principal & Managing Director, Southeast Development Group, LLC

Stephen L. Atkins

Author and Media Columnist, The New Yorker

Ken Auletta

Vice President of Growth, Uber

Ed Baker

Associate Editor, The Financial Times

Gerard Baker

Renowned Ocean Explorer and Scientist

Robert Ballard

Economics Editor, The Economist

Zanny Minton Beddoes

CNN National Security Analyst and Best-selling Author

Peter Bergen

U.S. Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist

Matthew Bishop

Mark Bontrager and Todd Lindner

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Raphael Bostic

Commander of US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO (2013-2016)

Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, USAF (Ret.)

Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

The Honorable John O. Brennan

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Justice Stephen G. Breyer

National Political Correspondent, The Washington Post

David Broder

Author and New York Times Columnist

David Brooks

Retired Four-Star General & Former Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea

General Vincent Brooks, USA (Ret.)

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Web.com

David L. Brown

Ambassador and Deputy Representative of the US to the United Nations (1997-1999)

Ambassador Peter Burleigh

U.S. Under Secretary of State, U.S. Ambassador, Professor

Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns

Director and Producer of Documentary Films

Ken Burns

President of Mexico (2006-2012)

Felipe Calderón

Co-founder and Executive Chairman, APR Energy

John Campion

Senior VP of the National Defense University and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Uganda

Ambassador Johnnie Carson

59th Superintendent of the United States Military Academy

Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen Jr., USA (Ret.)

President, Crockett Policy Institute

Lieutenant General John G. Castellaw, USMC (Ret)

Chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba (2011-2014)

John Caulfield

Executive Chairman, Acosta

Gary R. Chartrand

The Honorable Condoleezza Rice and Ryan Hass

OCEARCH Founding Chairman and Expedition Leader/ Executive Director, Marine Science Research Institute

Chris Fischer and A. Quinton White, Jr.

Bestselling Author and John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School

Amy Chua

National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism (1998-2001)

Richard A. Clarke

Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Physics, Harvard University

Adam E. Cohen, Ph.D.

Award-winning Oxford University Economist and Author

Paul Collier

Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2005-2009)

Christopher Cox

Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq

Ambassador Ryan Crocker

Economics Editor, The Economist

Henry Curr

Co-chief investment officer, and Co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, LP

Ray Dalio

Foreign Affairs Columnist, Washington Post; National Security Correspondent, The New York Times

David Ignatius & David Sanger

President, Institute of the Americas and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State

Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow

President, University of North Florida

John A. Delaney

18th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Martin E. Dempsey

Professor of Finance and Law, Harvard

Mihir A. Desai, Ph.D.

Pulitzer-prize winning author, acclaimed scientist and UCLA professor

Dr. Jared Diamond

Chief Economist of The World Bank and Creator of the "Doing Business Report"

Simeon Djankov

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Michael Doran

MAJ. Daniel Flynn, Dr. Tammy Hodo, Forest Harper & Dr. Richmond Wynn

President and CEO of the Eisenhower Institute

Susan Eisenhower

National Correspondent, The Atlantic

James Fallows

Authors of Our Towns

James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, Ph.D.

Vice President of Mayo Clinic and CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida

Gianrico Farrugia, M.D.

Former Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, U.S. Naval Forces Africa, Allied Joint Force Command Naples

Admiral Mark P. Fitzgerald, USN (Ret.)

Major, Strategist

MAJ Daniel Flynn

Associate Editor and Global Business Columnist, The Financial Times

Rana Foroohar

Executive Editor, The Economist

Daniel Franklin

Dean, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University

Ambassador Robert Gallucci

America's Expert on Global Public Health

Laurie Garrett

former U.S. Secretary of Defense

Robert M. Gates

Chairman and CEO, Florida Blue

Patrick Geraghty

Former chief of Soviet Operations, CIA

Burton Gerber

Advisor to Presidents, Harvard Professor, and Author

David Gergen

Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Executive Committee Member, University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute

Mark S. Gold, M.D.

Senior Private Sector Development Specialist, World Bank's Doing Business Project

Adrian Gonzalez

Mexico and Latin American Affairs Expert, Professor of Government, Author

George W. Grayson

Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.

Maurice R. Greenberg

President & CEO, Baptist Health

Hugh Greene

Physicist & String Theorist Author, The Elegant Universe

Brian Greene

Foreign Editor, The Economist

Robert Guest

President, Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Richard Haass

57th Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy

LTG. Franklin L. Hagenbeck, USA (Ret.)

Cartoonist and Political Illustrator

Ed Hall

President and CEO, The Haskell Company

Steve Halverson

Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States

Ambassador Husain Haqqani

Senior Healthcare Executive

Forest T. Harper, Jr.

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2006-2009) and Director of the National Security Agency (1999-2005)

General Michael Hayden, USAF (Ret.)

Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Ambassador Christopher Hill

Senior fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution

Fiona Hill

Consultant, All Things Diverse

Dr. Tammy Hodo

President and CEO, Project HOPE

John P. Howe, III M.D.

Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)

Jim Hughes

former Governor of Utah and Ambassador of the United States to Russia, China and Singapore

Jon Huntsman Jr.

Columnist, Washington Post

David Ignatius

Middle East Expert, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel

Martin Indyk

Deputy Director, National Security Agency

John C. Inglis

U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist

Greg Ip

Partner of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Ambassador James Jones

Theoretical Physicist, Co-Founder of String Field Theory

Michio Kaku

Russian Journalist and Activist; Vice Chairman of the Open Russia Movement and Chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom

Vladimir Kara-Murza

Chairman, President and CEO, Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.

M. Farooq Kathwari

Assistant Secretary for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Department of Homeland Security

Juliette Kayyem

Troy Stangarone, Jennifer Brannan & Juni Kim

President and CEO, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Teri Kelly

Owner, Jacksonville Jaguars and Chairman of Fulham Football Club and President & Owner of Flex-N-Gate

Shahid Khan

Founder & Managing Partner, Future Map

Parag Khanna, hosted in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth

Award-winning Correspondent and Author

Stephen Kinzer

Acting Director for Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Princeton University

Stephen Kotkin, Ph.D.

President, Jacksonville Jaguars

Mark Lamping

Paleoanthropologist, Political Advisor and Environmentalist

Dr. Richard Leakey

Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment, Council on Foreign Relations

Michael Levi

Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University

Dr. Bernard Lewis

Newsweek Beijing Chief

Melinda Liu

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Dennis Lockhart

President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions

Hunter Lovins

Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan

General Doug Lute

Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation

Barry Lynn

Author, Singapore Representative to the United Nations and High Commissioner of Singapore to Canada

Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani

Director of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Michael Mandelbaum

Author, Stanford University lecturer, and co-founder and partner in Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC

Anja Manuel

Executive Chairman, FIS

Frank Martire

Retired Career Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala (1993-1996)

Ambassador Marilyn McAfee (Ret.)

U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Ambassador Michael A. McFaul

British Consul-General for Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Kevin McGurgan

Top National Security Advisor; Former Special Envoy in the Campaign to Defeat ISIS (2015-2018); Senior Foreign Affairs Analyst with MSNBC

Brett McGurk

26th United States National Security Advisor

Lt. General H. R. McMaster

Author of "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe"

Roger McNamee

Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Co-Anchor of PBS's Need to Know and Former Editor of Newsweek

Jon Meacham

Global View Columnist, Wall Street Journal

Walter Russell Mead

Senior Vice President, Project Development, ConocoPhillips

Luc J. Messier

Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Sandel

Vice President of Translational Development, SRI International

Jon C. Mirsalis, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.

Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Afshin Molavi

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations

Ambassador Heraldo Munoz

Chief Executive Officer, United Airlines

Oscar Munoz

Award-winning journalist and author

Andrew Nagorski

Columnist, The Wall Street Journal and Best-Selling Author

Peggy Noonan

Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Journalist, Washington Post and Author

Don Oberdorfer

Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (2011-2015)

General Raymond Odierno, USA (Ret.)

CEO, Orender Unlimited

Donna Orender

Co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project

Norman J. Ornstein

Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker

Evan Osnos

Global Gender Equality Panelists

Washington-based correspondent, Los Angeles Times

Paul Richter, Washington-based correspondent, Los Angeles Times; Ambassador (ret.) Ryan Crocker; Ambassador (ret.) Robert S. Ford; Ambassador (ret.) Anne Patterson

Senior Vice President, International Relations, Boeing

Thomas Pickering

Director of the Brookings Arms Control Initiative and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine

Ambassador Steven Pifer

Author and former Beijing Bureau Chief, The Washington Post

John Pomfret

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Principal, Morgan Lewis Consulting

Ambassador Roman Popadiuk

Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management

Joseph P. Quinlan

Author, NPR Correspondent and Health Policy Fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation

T.R. Reid

Beijing Bureau Chief and Chaguan Columnist, The Economist

David Rennie, in Partnership with World Affairs Council of Atlanta

Economist, Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, and Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-1999)

Alice Rivlin

Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

John C. Robertson

Senior Middle East Advisor to Four U.S. Presidents

Ambassador Dennis Ross

FOUNDING DIRECTOR AND DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR KISSINGER INSTITUTE ON CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy

President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations

Ambassador Andres Rozental

CEO, Mayo Clinic

Dr. William Rupp

Aerospace Entrepreneur and Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Designer

Burt Rutan

Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment

Karim Sadjadpour

Harvard Professor and Author

Michael Sandel

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Security Correspondent for The New York Times

David Sanger

Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute and Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

David Satter

Executive Director, Center for the Study of Cuban Culture and Economy

Joseph L. Scarpaci

Chairman, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission

Mary L. Schapiro

US Correspondent, Der Tagesspiegel

Juliane Schäuble

Ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet Union (1997-2001); George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations

Ambassador Stephen Sestanovich

Administrator, United States Agency for International Development (2010-2015); Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist, United States Department of Agriculture (2009-2010); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2001-2009)

Rajiv Shah, M.D.

Head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Ruchir Sharma

Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Jeremy Siegel

Managing Director and Founding Partner, Siguler Guff

George W. Siguler

Director, Center for 21st Century Security & Intelligence and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program at Brookings

Peter W. Singer

Foreign Policy Expert and CEO, New America

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Executive VP & Portfolio Manager, Brandywine Asset Management, LLC

Stephen Smith

Secretary of the Treasury (2003-2006)

John W. Snow

Former Deputy National Security Advisor

Ambassador Nancy Soderberg

Managing Partner, PS27 Ventures and former General Manager, Global Markets IBM Systems & Technology Group

Jim Stallings

Deputy editor of The Economist and editor of The World in 2021

Tom Standage

Decorated Admiral and archetype of exemplary leadership addressing security concerns in a technologically transforming world

Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.)

Chairman and CEO, Regency Centers

Hap Stein

Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; U.S. Ambassador to Panama (2008-2010)

Ambassador Barbara Stephenson (Ret.)

Nobel Prize winning economist

Joseph Stiglitz

Chief of Staff and Defense Appropriations Associate for Congressman Ander Crenshaw (R-FL)

Erica Striebel

Author and award-winning Journalist

Ray Suarez

CEO, JAXPORT

Brian Taylor

Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the Unviersity of Maryland

Dr. Shibley Telhami

U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times

Gillian Tett

Vice President, Mayo Clinic & CEO, Mayo Clinic in Florida

Kent Thielen, M.D.

President, EverBank

Frank Trotter

Former Prime Minister of Australia

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

Astrophysicist and host of PBS NOVA ScienceNow

Neil deGrasse Tyson

President and CEO, Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd.; Former Vice Minister of Finance, Japan

Makoto Utsumi

Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and former Undersecretary of the Department of the Treasury

Paul Volcker

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, PGA Tour

Ty Votaw

President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and former Comptroller General of the U.S.

David M. Walker

President, JAXUSA Partnership

Aundra Wallace

Chairman and CEO, CSX Corporation

Michael J. Ward

National security reporter at the Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winner

Joby Warrick

Author and former correspondent for The New York Times and The Washington Post

Sharon Waxman

Editorial Director and Public Policy Fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics

Steven Weisman

U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2012-2015)

Ambassador Bruce Wharton

Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist and Newsweek essayist

George Will

International Affairs Advisor, Patton Boggs, LLP and former Ambassador of the United States to Zambia, India, Egypt and the Philippines

Ambassador Frank G. Wisner

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist & Author

Bob Woodward

Writer and Deputy Director of Environmental Defense Fund's Catch Share Design

James G. Workman

Apple Co-Founder

Steve Wozniak

Foreign Policy Analyst, Journalist, Author

Robin Wright

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist

Sheryl WuDunn

Associate Professor, Brooks College of Health

Dr. Richmond Wynn

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert

Daniel Yergin

Editor, Newsweek International

Fareed Zakaria

Chief Economist, Moody's Analytics

Mark Zandi

Commander in Chief of the U.S. Central Command (1997-2000)

General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.)

President and CEO, Zogby International

John Zogby