Keynote Speakers
Henry Kissinger
Former U.S. National Security Advisor & Secretary of State
Leon Panetta
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA
Eric Schmidt
Former Chairman & CEO of Google; Former Executive Chairman of Alphabet
John Brennan
Former Director of the CIA
Michèle Flournoy
Former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Graham Allison
Founding Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School
John Allen
President of the Brookings Institution
Stephen Schwarzman
Chairman & CEO of Blackstone; Founder of Schwarzman Scholars
Tamir Pardo
Former Director of Mossad
Joshua Cooper Ramo
Co-CEO & Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates
Robert O'Brien
Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Workshop Experts
Below is a running list of participating guests that will be present at our program. Updates are made daily. Some guests are not listed due to security measures.
Panelists and Special Experts
Amb. Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley - Chief Diversity Officer for the U.S. Department of State
Bishop Garrison - Senior Adviser to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for human capital, diversity, equity, and inclusion
Nitin Chadda - Co-Founder and Managing Partner at WestExec Advisors; Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense
Jonathan Woetzel - Asia-based Director of the McKinsey Global Institute
Steven Lee Myers - Beijing Bureau Chief at the New York Times
Niclas Kvarnstrom - Swedish Ambassador to Singapore; Former Director of the Department for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Swedish Foreign Ministry
Europe
Spencer Boyer - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy
Alton Buland - U.S. Department of Defense Director for European Policy
Mary Beth Long - Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Sonya Seunghye Lim - Former Chief of Station, Senior Intelligence Service (SIS/SES) at the Central Intelligence Agency
Amb. Joseph Manso - U.S. Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Mark Libby - Chargé of the U.S. Mission to the European Union
Bruce Turner - Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC), U.S. Department of State
Alan Harms - Former International Weapons Specialist for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency
Igor Zgrabljic - Government Affairs & Public Policy Manager at Google
Shashank Joshi - The Economist's Defense Editor
Ali Wyne - Senior Analyst with Eurasia Group's Global Macro Practice focusing on U.S.-China relations and great-power competition
Patrik Engstrom - Head of National Border Policing for Sweden; Former United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime International law Enforcement Advisor
Vivien Terrien - Référendaire for the Court of Justice of the European Union
Michelle Lee - Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration at the U.S. Department of State
Bahram Rajaee - Political Officer at the U.S. Mission to the OSCE
Middle East and North Africa
Robert Eatinger - Former Deputy General Counsel for Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency
Nicholas Rasmussen - Executive Director of the Global Internet Forum for Countering Terrorism
Amb. Henry Wooster - U.S. Ambassador to Jordan
Amb. Matthew Tueller - U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
Amb. Roger Carstens - U.S. Special Presidental Envoy for Hostage Affairs
Jonathan Winer - U.S. Special Envoy to Libya
Amb. Deborah Jones - Former U.S. Ambassador to Libya and Kuwait
Kelly Stemdem - Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative Fellow
Yuree Noh - Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative Fellow
Rachna Korhonen - Executive Director for the Joint Executive Office for Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs
Irfan Saeed - Director of the Office of Countering Violent Extremism in the Bureau of Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State
Paul Watzlavick - Director Office of Analysis for Near East Affairs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, United States Department of State
Carl Kress - Regional Director for U.S Trade and Development in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Eurasia, and East Asia
Khaled Khalifa - Regional Representative at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Saudi Arabia
Yasmeen Hibrawi - Head of Public Affairs at U.S. Consulate Dubai
Latin America and the Caribbean
Minister Roberto Alvarez - Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic
Amb. Ambassador Jeff DeLaurentis - Acting Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, U.S. Mission to the United Nations
Admiral Douglas Fears - Director for Joint Interagency Task Force South
David Shedd - Former Director of the Defense Security Agency
Carmen Medina - Former Deputy Director of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Amb. Philip Goldberg - U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
Amb. Alfonso Silva Navarro - Chilean Ambassador to the U.S.
Amb. Linda Talglialatela - U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the OECS
Amb. Todd Chapman - U.S. Ambassador to Brazil
Dana Brown - Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico
Katherine Dueholm - Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mexico and Central America at the U.S. Department of State
Michael Eddy - USAID Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Latin America and Caribbean Bureau
Barbara Feinstein - USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean
Col. Fred Taylor - Former Joint Space Operations Center Deputy Director and National Reconnaissance Office Liaison
East Asia and the Pacific
Ankit Panda - Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
John Park - Director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center
Kenneth Weinstein - Former President of the Hudson Institute
Daniel Nadel - Director of the Office of International Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State
Tomonori Saski - Former Representative to the Japanese Ministry of Defense
Dr. Parag Khanna - Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap
Michael Pettis - Carnegie Senior Fellow & Professor of Finance at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University
Alex Stamos - Former Chief Security Officer at Facebook
Justin Yifu Lin - Former Chief Economist of the World Bank
Chas Freeman - Main interpreter for President Nixon during 1972 visit to China; Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Larry Diamond - Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University
Richard Fontaine - CEO of the Center for a New American Security; foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain
Tom Orlik - Chief Economist for Bloomberg Economics
Shane Deichman - Vice President, Strategy & Operations Caliola Engineering LLC; Program Manager for Space Integration & Early Warning in the Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) Directorate at the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
LaToya Young - Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Office of Sanctions Policy and Implementation at the U.S. Department of State
Philippe Le Corre - Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Europe and Asia Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Special Assistant and Counsellor for international affairs to the French Defense Minister
Eurasia
Rolf Mowatt-Larsen - Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy; 23 years as a senior leader in the Central Intelligence Agency on weapons of mass destruction in European affairs
Rick Ledgett - Former Deputy Director of the U.S. National Security Agency
Christopher Turner - 25-year career in the CIA with sensitive assignments in the Far East, South Asia, and Europe. Honored with the Intelligence Star [*], a rare commendation for valor under fire
Chris Kirchhoff - Former Advisor to the National Security Advisor on the National Security Council and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Department of Defense.
Andrew Weber - Five-and-a-half years as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs; Current Senior Fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks
Christopher Anderson - Political Officer in the U.S. Foreign Service; Regional expertise in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia/Mongolia.
Gary Espinas - Senior United States Army Field Artillery and Foreign Area Officer
Jamil Jeffer - Senior Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships & Corporate Development, IronNet Cybersecurity
Founder & Executive Director, National Security Institute at GMU Law School
Sub-Saharan Africa
RDML Heidi Berg - Director of Intelligence, U.S. Africa Command
Amb. Richard Bell - U.S. Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire
Amb. Nina Fite - U.S. Ambassador to Angola
Amb. Eric Whitaker - U.S. Ambassador to Niger
Elizabeth Fitzsimmons - Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
George Conway - UNDP Crisis Bureau Deputy Director
Richard Nelson - USAID Director of the U.S. Mission to Uganda
Amb. Peter Vrooman - U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda
South Asia
John Frick - White House National Security Council Director for Security Cooperation
Colonel Candice Frost - Commander Joint Intelligence Operations Center at United States Cyber Command
Amb. Kenneth Juster - Former U.S. Ambassador to India
Amb. Marcia Bernicat - Senior Official for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
Heide Fulton - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Jim Warden - Director of Nuclear Energy, Safety and Security in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of State
Dean Thompson - Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
Lunch Roundtables
Alison Bouwmeester - Former senior leader at the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations
Amb. Craig Cloud - U.S. Ambassador to Botswana
Laurie Goodstein - International News Editor at the New York Times
Henry Haggard - Former White House National Security Council Director for European Affairs
Maryum Saifee - Foreign Service Officer at FSI, U.S. Department of State; Former Senior Visiting Fellow at the Truman National Security Project
Tanya Shugar - Africa Division Chief at the U.S. Department of Labor