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.
Current and former officials interested in speaking to our organization are welcome to contact our Senior Director of Operations for more information: Syed Ahmed | sya437@g.harvard.edu.
We do not endorse the ideas of any invited speakers. All guests are expected to take questions from the group.
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
Ambassador William Taylor
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine
David Sanger
Chief Washington Correspondent at The New York Times
Dr. Tim Maurer
Senior Counselor for Cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security
Major General (ret.) Amos Yadlin
Former Israeli Military Intelligence Chief
Congressman 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