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.
We do not endorse the ideas of any invited speakers. All guests are expected to take questions from the group.
SPRING 2021
General David H. Petraeus
4th Director of the CIA
General H. R. McMaster
26th United States National Security Advisor
Aminata Touré
Former Prime Minister of Senegal (2013-2014)
Stephen J. Hadley
21st United States National Security Advisor
Wendy Sherman
Deputy U.S. Secretary of State
John Bolton
25th U.S. Ambassador to the UN, 27th U.S. National Security Advisor
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 Senior Fellow
Jared Cohen
CEO of Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas), Former Advisor to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton
Johnny Harris
Host of Vox Borders
FALL 2020
Krishna Urs
U.S. Ambassador to Peru
Michael McFaul
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
Carol Giacomo
Diplomatic correspondent and 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
US 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 US, National Security Adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron
Jenna Ben-Yehuda
President and CEO of the Truman National Security Project
Will Hurd
US 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
Former Special Assistant to President Obama for National Security Affairs
Rashad Hussain
Associate White House Counsel, US Special Envoy for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications
Arasalan Suleman
Former Acting Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation