SPEAKERS
Throughout the year, HUFPI invites distinguished speakers to Harvard to discuss international events and share their perspectives with future foreign policy professionals. We seek out a diverse range of identities and perspectives to engage our equally diverse student body.
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Current and former officials interested in speaking to our organization are welcome to contact speakers@harvardforeignpolicy.org
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We do not endorse the ideas of any invited speakers. All guests are expected to take questions from the group.
FALL 2022

Robert Malley
U.S. Special Envoy to Iran, Lead Negotiator on the Iran Nuclear Deal, Former President and CEO of the International Crisis Group.
SPRING 2022

Margot Wallström
Former Foreign Minister of Sweden & First UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict

Derek Grossman
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs

William Courtney
President Clinton's Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs and former Ambassador to Georgia

Youssef Chahed
Former Prime Minister of Tunisia

Sudhakar Ramakrishna
CEO of Solarwinds

Jody Olsen
20th Director of the Peace Corps

Hugo Llorens
Former Ambassador to Afghanistan

John Herbst
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine

Omar Razzaz
Former Prime Minister of Jordan

Kurt Campbell
Former CEO of the Asia Group and NSC Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific of the Biden Administration

Joshua Kertzer
Professor of Government at Harvard University

Emily Channell-Justice
Director of the Contemporary Ukrainian Program

George Soroka
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University

Serhii Plokhii
Director of the Harvard Ukraine Institute and Professor of Ukrainian History

Steven Pifer
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine
FALL 2021

Ben Rhodes
Former Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting

Aurelia Nguyen
Managing Director of the #COVAX Facility at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

William Taylor
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine

David Sanger
Chief Washington Correspondent at The New York Times

Tim Maurer
Senior Counselor for Cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security

Major General (ret.) Amos Yadlin
Former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief

Mac Thornberry
Former U.S. House Representative for Texas' 13th District

Luis Felipe López Calva
UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean

Chad Wolf
Former Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security

Hussain Haqqani
Former Ambassador of Pakistan to Sri Lanka and the United States

Thomas Friedman
Op-Ed Columnist at The New York Times
SPRING 2021

General David H. Petraeus
4th Director of the CIA

General H. R. McMaster
26th U.S. National Security Advisor

Aminata Touré
Former Prime Minister of Senegal

Stephen J. Hadley
21st U.S. National Security Advisor

Wendy Sherman
Deputy U.S. Secretary of State

John Bolton
27th U.S. National Security Advisor, 25th U.S. Ambassador to the UN

Admiral William H. McRaven
Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations

Nicholas Burns
Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Robert Gates
22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense, 15th Director of Central Intelligence

Fiona Hill
Former National Security Council Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs

Karen Donfried
Nominee Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

P. W. Singer
Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Jared Cohen
CEO of Jigsaw

Johnny Harris
Host of Vox Borders

Kent Walker
Senior Vice President for Global Affairs & Chief Legal Officer at Google
FALL 2020

Krishna Urs
U.S. Ambassador to Peru

Michael McFaul
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia

Carol Giacomo
Diplomatic Correspondent & Member of the Editorial Board at The New York Times

Christopher Landau
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Jonathan Lee
Director of Global Public Policy at WhatsApp

Juliette Kayyem
Assistant Secretary of Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security

Jeff Fields
FBI Supervisory Special Agent, Inter-Agency Cyber Network Operations Unit
SPRING 2020

Karen Bass
U.S. Rep for California's 37th Congressional District, Chair of U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa

Lord Kim Darroch
Former British Ambassador to the U.S., National Security Adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron

Jenna Ben-Yehuda
President & CEO of the Truman National Security Project

Will Hurd
U.S. Rep for Texas's 23rd Congressional District, Former CIA Officer

Noah Feldman
Harvard Law Professor, Former Senior Constitutional Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq

Rebecca Brocato
Former Special Assistant to President Obama for Legislative Affairs, National Security Council Staff

Ned Price
Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State

Rashad Hussain
Associate White House Counsel, U.S. Special Envoy for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications

Arasalan Suleman
Former Acting Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation