Featured Speakers
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Combatant Commander, U.S. Central Command
General John Abizaid, USA (Ret.)
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Author and New York Times Columnist
David Brooks
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Director and Producer of Documentary Films
Ken Burns
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Theoretical Physicist, Co-Founder of String Field Theory
Michio Kaku
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U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation
Ambassador Michael A. McFaul
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Chairman, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Mary L. Schapiro
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Foreign Policy Expert and CEO, New America
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Astrophysicist and host of PBS NOVA ScienceNow
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist & Author
Bob Woodward
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Apple Co-Founder
Steve Wozniak
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Foreign Policy Analyst, Journalist, Author
Robin Wright
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Editor, Newsweek International
Fareed Zakaria
Master List
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Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School and Director, Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Rawi E. Abdelal
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Combatant Commander, U.S. Central Command
General John Abizaid, USA (Ret.)
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Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Institution and Adjunct Professor of Global Policy, Johns Hopkins, SAIS
Dr. Madiha Afzal
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The Majid Khadduri Professor and Director of Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Fouad Ajami
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U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001); Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group & Chair, Albright Capital Management LLC
Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
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CEO, Jacksonville Port Authority
A. Paul Anderson
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West Coast Editor, The Economist
John Andrews
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President, North America & Global Franchise Development, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
Laura Angelini
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Columnist, The Washington Post and Slate
Anne Applebaum
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Washington Correspondent, The Economist
James Astill
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Principal & Managing Director, Southeast Development Group, LLC
Stephen L. Atkins
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Author and Media Columnist, The New Yorker
Ken Auletta
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Vice President of Growth, Uber
Ed Baker
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Associate Editor, The Financial Times
Gerard Baker
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Renowned Ocean Explorer and Scientist
Robert Ballard
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Economics Editor, The Economist
Zanny Minton Beddoes
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CNN National Security Analyst and Best-selling Author
Peter Bergen
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U.S. Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
Matthew Bishop
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Mark Bontrager and Todd Lindner
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President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Raphael Bostic
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Commander of US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO (2013-2016)
Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, USAF (Ret.)
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Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
The Honorable John O. Brennan
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Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Justice Stephen G. Breyer
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National Political Correspondent, The Washington Post
David Broder
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Author and New York Times Columnist
David Brooks
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Retired Four-Star General & Former Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea
General Vincent Brooks, USA (Ret.)
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Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Web.com
David L. Brown
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Ambassador and Deputy Representative of the US to the United Nations (1997-1999)
Ambassador Peter Burleigh
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U.S. Under Secretary of State, U.S. Ambassador, Professor
Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns
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Director and Producer of Documentary Films
Ken Burns
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President of Mexico (2006-2012)
Felipe Calderón
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Co-founder and Executive Chairman, APR Energy
John Campion
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Senior VP of the National Defense University and former U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Uganda
Ambassador Johnnie Carson
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59th Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen Jr., USA (Ret.)
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President, Crockett Policy Institute
Lieutenant General John G. Castellaw, USMC (Ret)
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Chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba (2011-2014)
John Caulfield
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Executive Chairman, Acosta
Gary R. Chartrand
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The Honorable Condoleezza Rice and Ryan Hass
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OCEARCH Founding Chairman and Expedition Leader/ Executive Director, Marine Science Research Institute
Chris Fischer and A. Quinton White, Jr.
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Bestselling Author and John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Amy Chua
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National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism (1998-2001)
Richard A. Clarke
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Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Physics, Harvard University
Adam E. Cohen, Ph.D.
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Award-winning Oxford University Economist and Author
Paul Collier
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Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2005-2009)
Christopher Cox
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq
Ambassador Ryan Crocker
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Economics Editor, The Economist
Henry Curr
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Co-chief investment officer, and Co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, LP
Ray Dalio
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Foreign Affairs Columnist, Washington Post; National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
David Ignatius & David Sanger
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President, Institute of the Americas and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow
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President, University of North Florida
John A. Delaney
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18th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Martin E. Dempsey
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Professor of Finance and Law, Harvard
Mihir A. Desai, Ph.D.
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Pulitzer-prize winning author, acclaimed scientist and UCLA professor
Dr. Jared Diamond
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Chief Economist of The World Bank and Creator of the "Doing Business Report"
Simeon Djankov
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Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Michael Doran
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MAJ. Daniel Flynn, Dr. Tammy Hodo, Forest Harper & Dr. Richmond Wynn
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National Correspondent, The Atlantic
James Fallows
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Authors of Our Towns
James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, Ph.D.
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Vice President of Mayo Clinic and CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida
Gianrico Farrugia, M.D.
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Former Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, U.S. Naval Forces Africa, Allied Joint Force Command Naples
Admiral Mark P. Fitzgerald, USN (Ret.)
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Major, Strategist
MAJ Daniel Flynn
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Associate Editor and Global Business Columnist, The Financial Times
Rana Foroohar
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Executive Editor, The Economist
Daniel Franklin
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Dean, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University
Ambassador Robert Gallucci
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America's Expert on Global Public Health
Laurie Garrett
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former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert M. Gates
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Chairman and CEO, Florida Blue
Patrick Geraghty
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Former chief of Soviet Operations, CIA
Burton Gerber
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Advisor to Presidents, Harvard Professor, and Author
David Gergen
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Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Executive Committee Member, University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute
Mark S. Gold, M.D.
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Senior Private Sector Development Specialist, World Bank's Doing Business Project
Adrian Gonzalez
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Mexico and Latin American Affairs Expert, Professor of Government, Author
George W. Grayson
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Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
Maurice R. Greenberg
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President & CEO, Baptist Health
Hugh Greene
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Physicist & String Theorist Author, The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
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Foreign Editor, The Economist
Robert Guest
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President, Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Richard Haass
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57th Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy
LTG. Franklin L. Hagenbeck, USA (Ret.)
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Cartoonist and Political Illustrator
Ed Hall
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President and CEO, The Haskell Company
Steve Halverson
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Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
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Senior Healthcare Executive
Forest T. Harper, Jr.
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Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2006-2009) and Director of the National Security Agency (1999-2005)
General Michael Hayden, USAF (Ret.)
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Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Ambassador Christopher Hill
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Consultant, All Things Diverse
Dr. Tammy Hodo
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President and CEO, Project HOPE
John P. Howe, III M.D.
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Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)
Jim Hughes
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former Governor of Utah and Ambassador of the United States to Russia, China and Singapore
Jon Huntsman Jr.
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Theoretical Physicist, Co-Founder of String Field Theory
Michio Kaku
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Russian Journalist and Activist; Vice Chairman of the Open Russia Movement and Chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom
Vladimir Kara-Murza
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Chairman, President and CEO, Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.
M. Farooq Kathwari
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Assistant Secretary for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Department of Homeland Security
Juliette Kayyem
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Troy Stangarone, Jennifer Brannan & Juni Kim
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President and CEO, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Teri Kelly
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Owner, Jacksonville Jaguars and Chairman of Fulham Football Club and President & Owner of Flex-N-Gate
Shahid Khan
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Founder & Managing Partner, Future Map
Parag Khanna, hosted in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth
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Award-winning Correspondent and Author
Stephen Kinzer
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Acting Director for Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Princeton University
Stephen Kotkin, Ph.D.
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President, Jacksonville Jaguars
Mark Lamping
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Paleoanthropologist, Political Advisor and Environmentalist
Dr. Richard Leakey
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Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment, Council on Foreign Relations
Michael Levi
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Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University
Dr. Bernard Lewis
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Newsweek Beijing Chief
Melinda Liu
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President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Dennis Lockhart
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President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions
Hunter Lovins
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Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
General Doug Lute
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Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation
Barry Lynn
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Author, Singapore Representative to the United Nations and High Commissioner of Singapore to Canada
Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani
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Director of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Michael Mandelbaum
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Executive Chairman, FIS
Frank Martire
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Retired Career Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala (1993-1996)
Ambassador Marilyn McAfee (Ret.)
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U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation
Ambassador Michael A. McFaul
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British Consul-General for Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Kevin McGurgan
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Top National Security Advisor; Former Special Envoy in the Campaign to Defeat ISIS (2015-2018); Senior Foreign Affairs Analyst with MSNBC
Brett McGurk
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26th United States National Security Advisor
Lt. General H. R. McMaster
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Author of "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe"
Roger McNamee
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Co-Anchor of PBS's Need to Know and Former Editor of Newsweek
Jon Meacham
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Global View Columnist, Wall Street Journal
Walter Russell Mead
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Senior Vice President, Project Development, ConocoPhillips
Luc J. Messier
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Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Sandel
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Vice President of Translational Development, SRI International
Jon C. Mirsalis, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.
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Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Afshin Molavi
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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations
Ambassador Heraldo Munoz
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Chief Executive Officer, United Airlines
Oscar Munoz
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Global Gender Equality Panelists
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Senior Vice President, International Relations, Boeing
Thomas Pickering
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Director of the Brookings Arms Control Initiative and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Ambassador Steven Pifer
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Author and former Beijing Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
John Pomfret
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Principal, Morgan Lewis Consulting
Ambassador Roman Popadiuk
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Author, NPR Correspondent and Health Policy Fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation
T.R. Reid
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Beijing Bureau Chief and Chaguan Columnist, The Economist
David Rennie, in Partnership with World Affairs Council of Atlanta
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Economist, Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, and Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-1999)
Alice Rivlin
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Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
John C. Robertson
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Senior Middle East Advisor to Four U.S. Presidents
Ambassador Dennis Ross
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FOUNDING DIRECTOR AND DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR KISSINGER INSTITUTE ON CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES
Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy
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President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations
Ambassador Andres Rozental
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CEO, Mayo Clinic
Dr. William Rupp
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Aerospace Entrepreneur and Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Designer
Burt Rutan
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Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment
Karim Sadjadpour
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Harvard Professor and Author
Michael Sandel
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Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Security Correspondent for The New York Times
David Sanger
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Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute and Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
David Satter
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Executive Director, Center for the Study of Cuban Culture and Economy
Joseph L. Scarpaci
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Chairman, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Mary L. Schapiro
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US Correspondent, Der Tagesspiegel
Juliane Schäuble
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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
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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.
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Head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Ruchir Sharma
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Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy Siegel
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Managing Director and Founding Partner, Siguler Guff
George W. Siguler
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Director, Center for 21st Century Security & Intelligence and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program at Brookings
Peter W. Singer
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Foreign Policy Expert and CEO, New America
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Executive VP & Portfolio Manager, Brandywine Asset Management, LLC
Stephen Smith
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Secretary of the Treasury (2003-2006)
John W. Snow
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Former Deputy National Security Advisor
Ambassador Nancy Soderberg
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Managing Partner, PS27 Ventures and former General Manager, Global Markets IBM Systems & Technology Group
Jim Stallings
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Decorated Admiral and archetype of exemplary leadership addressing security concerns in a technologically transforming world
Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.)
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Chairman and CEO, Regency Centers
Hap Stein
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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.)
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Nobel Prize winning economist
Joseph Stiglitz
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Chief of Staff and Defense Appropriations Associate for Congressman Ander Crenshaw (R-FL)
Erica Striebel
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Author and award-winning Journalist
Ray Suarez
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CEO, JAXPORT
Brian Taylor
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Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the Unviersity of Maryland
Dr. Shibley Telhami
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U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times
Gillian Tett
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Vice President, Mayo Clinic & CEO, Mayo Clinic in Florida
Kent Thielen, M.D.
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President, EverBank
Frank Trotter
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Former Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
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Astrophysicist and host of PBS NOVA ScienceNow
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and former Comptroller General of the U.S.
David M. Walker
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President, JAXUSA Partnership
Aundra Wallace
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Chairman and CEO, CSX Corporation
Michael J. Ward
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Author and former correspondent for The New York Times and The Washington Post
Sharon Waxman
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Editorial Director and Public Policy Fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Steven Weisman
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U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2012-2015)
Ambassador Bruce Wharton
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist and Newsweek essayist
George Will
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International Affairs Advisor, Patton Boggs, LLP and former Ambassador of the United States to Zambia, India, Egypt and the Philippines
Ambassador Frank G. Wisner
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist & Author
Bob Woodward
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Writer and Deputy Director of Environmental Defense Fund's Catch Share Design
James G. Workman
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Apple Co-Founder
Steve Wozniak
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Foreign Policy Analyst, Journalist, Author
Robin Wright
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
Sheryl WuDunn
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Associate Professor, Brooks College of Health
Dr. Richmond Wynn