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Date Event Type Event Title or Speakers hosted Speaker role(s) (if applicable) 
1/17/25 Field Trip Trip to the National WW2 Museum
1/13/25 Speaker Mara Karlin Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities
12/3/2024 Speaker Yuval Levin & Ramesh Ponnuru Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; Editor of National Review
11/21/2024 Field Trip Little Creek Field Trip
11/19/2024 Speaker Avichai Mandelblit Former Attorney General of Israel
11/19/2024 Speaker Ambassador Joan A. Polaschik Director of the Foreign Service Institute
11/6/2024 Speaker Rosa Brooks Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center
11/6/2024 Speaker Frank Bruni; D. Sunshine Hillygus; Peter Feaver Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke; Professor of Political Science at Duke; Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke and AGS Director
11/1/2024 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
10/30/2024 Speaker Amb. Wendy R. Sherman Former Deputy Secretary of State
10/28/2024 Speaker Elbridge Colby Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development
10/22/2024 Speaker Karl Rove & David Axelrod Republican Strategist; Democratic Strategist
10/8/2024 Speaker Sara Castro Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy
10/1/2024 Speaker Michael G. Vickers Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
9/26/2024 Speaker Anja Manuel Executive Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
9/25/2024 Misc Film Screening and Panel: War Game
9/23/2024 Career AGS Young Alumni Career Panel
9/10/2024 Speaker Yuval Levin Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the
American Enterprise Institute
9/10/2024 Social Meet the 2024-25 CTPP Fellows
9/5/2024 Speaker Monica Medina Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
9/4/2024 Speaker Liz Cheney Former U.S. Representative
8/29/2024 Speaker General Paul M. Nakasone Former Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency
8/26/2024 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
5/22/2024 Alumni Alumni D.C. Garden Party
4/19/2024 Field Trip AGS Trip to Fort Liberty
4/15/2024 Speaker Dan Senor Columnist and former Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Mitt Romney
4/13/2024 Alumni AGS Alumni Reunion Weekend Mixer
4/12/2024 Misc 2024 CTPP Fellow Research Presentations
4/10/2024 Speaker Tara Zahra Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago
4/8/2024 Speaker Robert Satloff Segal Executive Director of The Washington Institute
4/4/2024 Speaker General Bryan P. Fenton Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command
4/2/2024 Speaker David Rubenstein & Fareed Zakaria Philanthropist; Political Commentator
3/28/2024 Field Trip AGS Trip to Washington, D.C.
3/28/2024 Misc AWC Young Scholars Conference
3/26/2024 Speaker Amb. Kay Bailey Hutchison & Amb. Douglas Lute Former U.S. Permanent Representatives to NATO
3/20/2024 Speaker Yuval Levin Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the
American Enterprise Institute
3/10/2024 Staff Ride International Staff Ride: The Cold War in Europe
3/8/2024 Speaker Condoleeza Rice Former Secretary of State
2/26/2024 Speaker Elizabeth Economy Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution
2/15/2024 Career AGS Young Alumni Career Panel
2/13/2024 Speaker Daniel Kurtzer Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel
2/5/2024 Speaker Nicholas Kristof Columnist for the New York Times
2/1/2024 Speaker Matthew Connolly Professor of International and Global History at Columbia University
1/25/2024 Speaker Lieutenant General Christopher T. Donahue Commander, XVIII Airborne
1/23/2024 Speaker Matthew C. Waxman Professor of Law at Columbia University
1/18/2024 Speaker Bonny Lin Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
1/16/2024 Speaker Peter Beinart Journalist and political commentator
1/4/2024 Alumni AGS Alumni Mixer in Washington, D.C.
12/5/2023 Speaker Melvyn P. Leffler Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia
11/28/2023 Speaker Daniel F. Runde Senior Vice President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies
11/16/2023 Speaker Mariana Budjeryn Senior Research Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard’s Belfer Center
11/15/2023 Speaker Christine Wormuth Secretary of the Army
11/7/2023 Speaker Frank Bruni; D. Sunshine Hillygus;  Peter Feaver Former Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives
10/26/2023 Alumni AGS Alumni Mixer in Washington, D.C.
10/25/2023 Speaker Dahlia Scheindlin Policy Fellow at the Century Foundation and former advisor to Israeli national electoral campaigns
10/24/2023 Career Student Lunch: Working in the Intelligence Community
10/11/2023 Speaker Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
10/6/2023 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
10/3/2023 Speaker Ambassador Thomas Nides Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
9/28/2023 Speaker General (Ret.) Martin Dempsey; Sarah Hirshland;
Mike Krzyzewski; Adam Silver
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; CEO of USOPC; Former Head Coach of Duke Men's Basketball; Commissioner of the NBA
9/19/2023 Speaker Kori Schake Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the
American Enterprise Institute
9/14/2023 Speaker Heidi A. Urben & Peter Feaver Professor of the Practice and Director of External Education and Outreach at Georgetown University; Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke and AGS Director
9/7/2023 Speaker Giselle Donnolly Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
8/29/2023 Speaker Colin Kahl Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
8/28/2023 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
4/14/2023 Field Trip AGS Trip to Fort Bragg
4/6/2023 Speaker General Austin S. Miller Former Commander of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan and Resolute Support Mission
3/31/2023 Field Trip Field Trip to the National World War II Museum
3/28/2023 Speaker Ghaith al-Omari & Dov Weissglas Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Lawyer and businessman
3/22/2023 Speaker Naftali Bennett Former Prime Minister of Israel
3/21/2023 Speaker Stephen Hadley Former National Security Advisor to President Bush
3/12/2023 Staff Ride International Staff Ride: Anzio to Rome
3/2/2023 Speaker Or Rabinowitz Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2/21/2023 Speaker Rose Gottemoeller Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
2/13/2023 Speaker Bruce Jentleson William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke
2/8/2023 Speaker Ambassador Gentry Smith Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security
2/1/2023 Speaker Talbot Imlay Lecturer in History at the Université Laval in Québec, Canada
1/26/2023 Speaker Ambassador Gordon Sondland Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
1/19/2023 Speaker Eric Farnsworth Vice President, AS/COA, Washington, D.C. office
1/12/2023 Speaker William Inboden Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair, Clements Center for National Security; Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
11/17/2022 Speaker Daniel Strunk Duke/AGS Alumni
11/16/2022 Speaker Susan Colbourn Diplomatic and international historian and Associate Director of AGS
11/14/2022 Speaker Linda Thomas-Greenfield U.S. Ambassador to the UN
11/9/2022 Speaker Katherine Tai United States Trade Representative
11/1/2022 Speaker Ray Takeyh Author and former Senior Advisor on Iran for the U.S. Department of State
10/25/2022 Speaker Elisabeth Leake Author and former Fellow at the University of London
10/22/2022 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
10/18/2022 Speaker Patricia Larsen; Mirriam Grace-McIntyre; Tricia Wellman Intelligence Practitioners
10/5/2022 Speaker David French Political commentator
10/3/2022 Speaker Susan B Glasser Journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine
9/28/2022 Speaker Carrie Filipetti Executive Director of the Vandenberg Coalition
9/21/2022 Speaker Joseph Torigian Author and international relations scholar
9/21/2022 Field Trip Trip to Washington, D.C.
9/7/2022 Speaker Thomas Brzozowski Counsel for Domestic Terrorism at the U.S. Department of Justice
9/1/2022 Speaker General Charles Q Brown Chief of Staff of the Air Force
8/29/2022 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
7/28/2022 Speaker David Sanger White House Correspondent at the New York Times
6/1/2022 Alumni Alumni D.C. Garden Party
4/12/2022 Speaker Louis DeJoy Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Postal Service
4/9/2022 Alumni AGS Alumni Happy Hour
4/6/2022 Speaker Kevin Rudd Former Prime Minister of Australia
4/5/2022 Speaker Christopher Hancock Author of "Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics"
4/2/2022 Field Trip Field Trip to the National World War II Museum
4/1/2022 Field Trip AGS Trip to Fort Bragg
3/23/2022 Speaker Peter Jackson Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow
3/22/2022 Speaker Major General Scott Jackson Commanding General of Security Force Assistance Command
3/10/2022 Staff Ride Pearl Harbor Staff Ride
3/1/2022 Speaker Michael McFaul Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation
3/1/2022 Alumni AGS Alumni Lunch - Pentagon and DoD
2/28/2022 Speaker Michael Sfraga U.S. Arctic Research Commission Chair
2/16/2022 Speaker Jean Lee Former Pyongyang Bureau Chief, Associated Press
2/15/2022 Speaker Philip Ritcheson Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Mission Performance, Analysis and Collection
2/10/2022 Speaker Michael Abramowitz President of Freedom House
2/8/2022 Speaker Theodora Dragostinova Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University
2/1/2022 Speaker David French Political commentator
1/26/2022 Speaker Major General Amos Yadlin Former Major General of the Israeli Air Force
1/20/2022 Speaker Alexandra Evans Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
11/18/2021 Speaker Vladislav M. Zubok Professor of International History at the London School of Economics
11/12/2021 Speaker General Mark A. Milley Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
11/3/2021 Speaker Amanda C. Demmer Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Tech
11/1/2021 Speaker Jane Harman Former Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee
10/27/2021 Speaker Sophie Richardson China Director at Human Rights Watch
10/14/2021 Speaker Wyndee Parker National Security Advisor to the Speaker of the House
10/12/2021 Speaker Jussi Hanhimäki Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
10/8/2021 Career AGS Alumni Career Panel
10/1/2021 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
9/29/2021 Speaker Andrew Preston & Christopher Nichols Professors of History
9/23/2021 Speaker Nasirullah "John" Safi Interpreter for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan
9/15/2021 Speaker Stephen J. Hadley Former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
9/9/2021 Speaker Wajahat Ali Writer and leading Muslim American public intellectual
9/7/2021 Speaker Michèle Flournoy Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
9/1/2021 Speaker Michael Singh Former Senior Director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council
8/25/2021 Speaker Douglas Lute Former U.S. Representative to NATO
8/23/2021 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
8/11/2021 Misc Summer Salon #4 Book Discussion: A Spy Among
Friends by Ben Macintyre
7/29/2021 Speaker Sue Gordon Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
7/14/2021 Misc Summer Salon #3 Film Discussion: The Social Dilemma
6/16/2021 Misc Summer Salon #2 Book Discussion: The New
Rules of War by Sean McFate
6/14/2021 Speaker General Martin Dempsey Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
5/19/2021 Misc Summer Salon #1 Film Discussion: Arrival
3/29/2021 Speaker Moisés Naím Journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine
3/18/2021 Speaker Charles Kupchan Author and former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs
on the National Security Council
3/17/2021 Speaker Najat Al-Saied & Nir Boms Former Assistant Professor at Zayed University; Vice President of the Washington based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
3/12/2021 Career AGS Alumni Career Panel
3/4/2021 Speaker Kaitlyn Johnson Deputy Director & Fellow of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
2/24/2021 Speaker COL Jon Harvey: COL Matt Ross; FBI Supervisory Special Agent Matt Whittemore CTPP Fellows
2/17/2021 Speaker Kim Ghattas Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Interational Peace and former BBC Journalist
2/15/2021 Speaker Jenny Arnold; Gia DeHart; Randee Farrell;
Tina Hayes; Margalit Murray; Moderated by Kim Kotlar
Senior Civil Servant in the DoD; Human Resources Officer for the Navy Reserves; U.S. Army Public Affairs Officer; Nuclear Proliferation and Countering WMD Specialist; Supervisory Special Agent at the U.S. Department of State
2/10/2021 Speaker Ben Wittes Senior Fellow, Research Director in Public Law and Co-Director of the Harvard Law School–Brookings Project on Law and Security
2/3/2021 Speaker Brad Wiegmann Senior Counselor, National Security Division
1/25/2021 Speaker Sue Gordon; Bruce Jentleson; David Schanzer Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke, Professor of the Practice at Sanford
11/9/2020 Speaker Philip Zelikow Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission and former State Department Counselor
10/26/2020 Speaker Mohammad Darawshe Leading political analyst for the Israeli press
10/19/2020 Speaker Melvin Gamble Former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer
10/15/2020 Speaker Simon Miles Assistant Professor of History at Duke University
10/14/2020 Speaker H.R. McMaster Former National Security Advisor for President Trump
10/7/2020 Speaker Mary Elise Sarotte Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS
10/1/2020 Speaker Michael Oren Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.
9/29/2020 Speaker Robert Zoellick Former Head of the World Bank and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
9/22/2020 Speaker Laura Rosenberger Senior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Serving Democracy
9/17/2020 Speaker Thomas Schwartz Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University
9/14/2020 Speaker Frank Hill Director of the Institute for the Public Trust
9/10/2020 Speaker Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Erroll Southers Leading U.S. experts on white supremacist extremism
9/3/2020 Speaker Kashmir Hill New York Times Technology Reporter
9/1/2020 Speaker Juliette Kayyem Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
8/27/2020 Speaker Susan Rice Former U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N.
8/18/2020 Social Virtual Welcome Back Social
7/31/2020 Speaker General Ronald P. Clark Chief of Staff for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
5/12/2020 Speaker Jolynn Dellinger; David Hoffman;
David Schanzer; Shane Stansbury
Stephen and Janet Bear Visiting Lecturer at Duke Law  School; Professor of the Practice at Sanford; Professor of the Practice at Sanford, Robinson Everett Distinguished Fellow in the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security
5/5/2020 Speaker Paul Teller Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Vice President
4/22/2020 Speaker Kathleen Hicks; Kelly Magsamen; Kori Schake Professionals in the national security/foreign policy sector
4/15/2020 Speaker Yossi Klein Halevi Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
4/9/2020 Speaker Robert Zoellick Former Deputy Secretary of State
4/2/2020 Speaker Sue Gordon Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
2/27/2020 Speaker Sara Vakhshouri Founder and President of SVB Energy International
2/21/2020 Field Trip Field Trip to FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
2/17/2020 Speaker John Bolton Former National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the UN
2/12/2020 Speaker Gary Haugen Founder and CEO of International Justice Mission
2/10/2020 Speaker Liam Collins Former Aide to General (ret.) Abizaid for Sec Def Mission as Senior Defense Advisor to Ukraine (2016-2018); Retired Special Forces Colonel and former Director of the Modern War Institute at West Point
2/4/2020 Speaker Richard Fontaine CEO of the Center for a New American Security
1/27/2020 Speaker Rick Barton Former Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations
1/24/2020 Field Trip Field Trip to the National World War II Museum
1/15/2020 Speaker Kristen Silverberg Executive Vice President for Policy at Business Roundtable
12/5/2019 Speaker Nivruti Rai Vice President of Intel Foundry Services and head of Intel India
12/3/2019 Speaker Samantha Power Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN
11/26/2019 Speaker Samm Sacks Cybersecurity Policy & China Digital Economy Fellow at New America
11/25/2019 Speaker Petra Goedde Professor at American University's School of International Service
11/25/2019 Speaker Joshua Bolten & Denis McDonough Former White House Chief of Staff to President Bush; Former White House Chief of Staff to President Obama
11/13/2019 Speaker Robin Kirk; Tim Nichols; David Schanzer Professor of Human Rights at Duke; Visiting Professor of the Practice at Sanford & Director of the Counterterrorism and Public Policy Fellowship Program; Professor of the Practice at Sanford & Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security
11/9/2019 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
11/8/2019 Misc AGS Movie Night: "The Report"
11/8/2019 Speaker Audrey Kurth Cronin Distinguished Professor at American University's School of International Service
10/28/2019 Speaker Tzipi Livni Former Foreign Minister of Israel
10/19/2019 Speaker David E. Sanger National Security Correspondent for the New York Times
10/18/2019 Field Trip Field Trip to USSOUTHCOM and Navy Seal Museum
10/16/2019 Speaker Peter Wehner Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
10/14/2019 Speaker Timothy Andrews Sayle Assistant Professor of History and Director of the International Relations Program at the University of Toronto
10/2/2019 Speaker Fredrik Logevall Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School
10/1/2019 Speaker William J. Burns Former Deputy Secretary of State
9/23/2019 Speaker Samantha Ravich Defense & intelligence policy and tech entrepreneur
9/16/2019 Speaker Eric Lorber Senior Director, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Former Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
9/11/2019 Speaker Farah Pandith Counterterrorism and violent extremism expert
9/5/2019 Speaker Jim Steinberg Former Deputy Secretary of State
8/26/2019 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
6/23/2019 Alumni Alumni D.C. Garden Party
4/16/2019 Speaker Lisa Disbrow Former Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force
4/13/2019 Alumni Alumni Weekend Happy Hour
4/10/2019 Speaker Robert Satloff Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
4/9/2019 Speaker Andrew McCabe Former Deputy Director of the FBI
4/6/2019 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
4/3/2019 Speaker Michele Flournoy Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
3/20/2019 Speaker Michael Morgan Associate Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill
3/19/2019 Speaker Gordon Sondland Ambassador to the EU
3/8/2019 Staff Ride International Staff Ride: WW2 Operation Torch
in Gibraltar and Morocco
3/6/2019 Speaker John Kelly Former White House Chief of Staff to President Trump
3/1/2019 Misc Carlucci National Security Symposium
2/28/2019 Speaker Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State
2/25/2019 Speaker Deborah McCarthy; Sean MacFarland; Stuart Jones Forfmer U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania; retired General, Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
2/18/2019 Alumni Alumni Panel
2/12/2019 Speaker Rick Atkinson Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian
2/6/2019 Speaker James M. Lindsay Leading authority on the American foreign policymaking process and the domestic politics of American foreign policy
1/31/2019 Speaker Joshua Shifrinson Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University
1/29/2019 Speaker Brett McGurk Former Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
1/26/2019 Career Career Happy Hour with Glenn Fine
1/24/2019 Speaker General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal Commander of U.S. and Intemational Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan
1/15/2019 Speaker Dan Blumenthal Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
2/14/2019 Speaker Leo MacKay Senior Vice President, Ethics and Enterprise Assurance at Lockheed Martin
12/17/2018 Alumni D.C. Alumni Holiday Mixer
12/3/2018 Speaker David Priess Writer and speaker on the presidency, national security, and intelligence
11/28/2018 Speaker Artur Mas Former President of Catalonia
11/9/2018 Alumni 36 Hours at Duke
11/5/2018 Speaker General Joseph F. Dunford Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
11/2/2018 Field Trip Trip to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
10/22/2018 Speaker Peter Singer Political scientist specializing in international relations and modern warfare
10/15/2018 Speaker Stephanie O'Sullivan Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
10/5/2018 Misc Documentary Screening: The Final Year
10/2/2018 Speaker Michael Wear & Farr Curlin Author of "Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America"; Duke Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities
9/27/2018 Speaker Sarah Snyder Historian of U.S. foreign relations specializing in human rights and the Cold War
9/22/2018 Alumni Alumni Homecoming Hangout
9/21/2018 Alumni AGS in New York Meetings and Mixers
9/6/2018 Speaker Thomas Pickering Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to the UN, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, and Jordan
9/5/2018 Speaker Michael McFaul Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
8/28/2018 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
6/22/2018 Alumni D.C. Alumni Garden Party
5/3/2018 Speaker Condoleezza Rice & Amy Zegart Former Secretary of State; Senior Fellow at FSI
4/19/2018 Speaker William Hitchcock Professor of History at the University of Virginia
4/13/2018 Career Public Policy and Life in D.C. Happy Hour
4/12/2018 Speaker Scott Sagan Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
4/7/2018 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
4/5/2018 Speaker Nikki Haley U.S. Ambassador to the UN
3/22/2018 Speaker William Taubman Bernard Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College
3/15/2018 Misc The Atlantic Council 9/12 Cyber Competition
3/11/2018 Staff Ride International Staff Ride: WW1 Endgame
2/28/2018 Alumni AGS Alumni in D.C. Quarterly Get Together
2/28/2018 Speaker Jendayi Frazer Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
2/22/2018 Speaker Dominick Wright Deputy Director of Analysis at the Pentagon
2/15/2018 Speaker Brian Hook Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State, Director of Policy Planning under Rex Tillerson
2/12/2018 Speaker General Lori Robinson Commander, U.S. NORTHCOM & NORAD
2/7/2018 Speaker Elliot Abrams Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
1/30/2018 Speaker Jennifer Bryson & Ismail Royer Writer and translator; Writer and religious sciences scholar
1/24/2018 Speaker General (Ret.) Martin Dempsey Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1/22/2018 Speaker Marc Sageman Former CIA Case Officer
1/16/2018 Speaker Peter Wittig German Ambassador to the U.S.
1/7/2018 Misc Winter Forum - Crisis at Fiery Cross Reef: China,
the United States, and the South China Sea
12/5/2017 Speaker Victor Cha Former NCS Director of Asian Affairs
12/4/2017 Speaker Reince Priebus Former Chief of Staff to President Trump
11/30/2017 Field Trip Visit to the Navy SEAL Base
11/29/2017 Speaker John Podesta Chair of Hillary for America
11/28/2017 Alumni AGS Alumni in D.C. Quarterly Get Together
11/28/2017 Speaker Jeff Engel Director of the Center for Presidential History
11/13/2017 Speaker Laszlo Szabo Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S.
11/10/2017 Speaker Amjad Bseisu Enquest CEO
10/30/2017 Speaker Adam Schiff U.S. Representative
10/27/2017 Alumni AGS Alumni in New York Dinner
10/19/2017 Speaker Paul Teller Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
10/12/2017 Speaker Os Guinness Prolific writer and social critic
10/4/2017 Speaker Megan McArdle Writer for Bloomberg
9/25/2017 Speaker Avril Haines Former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama,
Deputy Director of the CIA and Legal Advisor to the NSC
9/16/2017 Alumni Alumni Homecoming Happy Hour
9/14/2017 Speaker Lisa Monaco Former U.S. Homeland Security Advisor
9/13/2017 Speaker Graham Allison Professor at the JFK School of Government at Harvard
9/6/2017 Speaker Jim Carafano Vice President of The Heritage Foundation
8/29/2017 Alumni AGS 10th Anniversary Alumni Celebration in D.C.
4/30/2017 Social AGS Senior Dinner
4/21/2017 Speaker General Keith Alexander Former Commander of U.S. CYBERCOM and former Director of the NSA
4/8/2017 Alumni AGS Alumni Reunion Weekend Happy Hour
4/7/2017 Speaker Joseph S. Nye Jr. Former Dean, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
4/4/2017 Career AGS Alumni Career Panel
3/27/2017 Speaker Admiral Kurt Tidd Commander of U.S. Southern Command
3/25/2017 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
3/23/2017 Speaker Charlie Hill Lecturer in International Studies at Yale University
3/21/2017 Speaker Jared Cohen President of Jigsaw
3/8/2017 Speaker David McCormick co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates and former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
2/24/2017 Speaker Kori Schake Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
2/23/2017 Speaker Rosa Brooks Former Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine, Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Georgetown University
2/14/2017 Speaker Will Tobey Former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration within the U.S. Department of Energy, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and Intemational Affairs
2/10/2017 Speaker Christopher Kirchhoff Former Director For Strategic Planning on the National Security Council, Partner at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx)
2/1/2017 Speaker Paul Miller Former Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council, Associate Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin
1/31/2017 Alumni AGS Alumni in D.C. Reception
1/25/2017 Speaker Colin Kahl Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden
1/2/2017 Staff Ride International Staff Ride: Vietnam
11/12/2016 Misc Iraq Surge Conference
11/3/2016 Speaker Peter Wehner Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiaitive
11/1/2016 Speaker Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
10/25/2016 Speaker Jim Messina & Karl Rove Campaign manager for Barack Obama; Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bush
10/21/2016 Field Trip Trip to USASOC and Fort Bragg
10/19/2016 Speaker Ambassador Hahn Choonq-hee Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN
10/18/2016 Speaker Heather Hurlburt & Robert Karem Foreign policy advisor to the Clinton campaign; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
10/4/2016 Speaker Michael Green Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the CSIS
9/14/2016 Speaker Dina Powell Former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
9/8/2016 Speaker Jeh C. Johnson Former Secretary of Homeland Security
8/31/2016 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
4/15/2016 Speaker General (Ret.) Martin Dempsey & Denis McDonough Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Former White House Chief of Staff to President Obama
4/1/2016 Speaker Valerie Hudson Professor of Political Science at The Bush School of Government and Public Service
3/31/2016 Speaker Lukman Faily Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S.
3/23/2016 Speaker Taavi Roivas Prime Minister of Estonia
3/3/2016 Speaker Jon Rosenwasser Minority Budget Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
3/3/2016 Speaker Megan O'Sullivan Former Deputy National Security Adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan
2/18/2016 Speaker Deborah James & Sue Gordon Secretary of the Air Force; Deputy Director of the NGA
2/9/2016 Speaker Jonathan Fox Professor of Political Science at Bar-llan University
2/4/2016 Speaker Ambassador Wendy Sherman Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
1/29/2016 Field Trip Trip to Fort Bragg
1/27/2016 Speaker Scooter Libby Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney
1/21/2016 Speaker David Sanger Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times
1/19/2016 Alumni AGS Alumni in D.C. Reception
1/6/2016 Staff Ride International Staff Ride: Grenada
11/19/2015 Speaker Tom Donilon Former National Security Advisor to President Obama
11/12/2015 Speaker Robert Jordan Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
11/4/2015 Misc Counterterrorism and Public Policy Fellows Panel
11/4/2015 Career AGS Alumni Career Panel
11/2/2015 Speaker Jack Matlock & Aldona Wos Former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR; Former U.S. Ambassador to Estonia
10/26/2015 Speaker Walter Russell Mead Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, author of
"Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World"
10/20/2015 Speaker General (Ret.) John Abizaid Former Commander of U.S. CENTCOM
10/4/2015 Alumni AGS Homecoming Reunion
9/30/2015 Speaker Mel Middleton Executive Director of Freedom Quest International
9/24/2015 Speaker Thomas Christensen Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
9/10/2015 Speaker Jessica Stern Expert and academic scholar of terrorism studies, co -author of "ISIS: The State of Terror"
9/1/2015 Speaker Derek Chollet former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
8/25/2015 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
4/17/2015 Speaker Juan Zarate Senior Adviser at CSIS and former Deputy National Security Advisor on Terrorism
4/10/2015 Speaker Stephen Brooks Professor of Government at Darmouth College
4/9/2015 Speaker Richard Betts Professor Emeritus of War and Peace Studies and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
4/8/2015 Speaker Mitt Romney Former Governor of Massachusetts and Republican presidential nominee
3/31/2015 Speaker Michael Gerson & E.J. Dionne Former presidential speechwriter and current Washington Post opinion writer; Washington Post columnist and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow
3/24/2015 Speaker Lieutenant General (Ret.) Dan Bolger Author of "Why We Lost"
3/6/2015 Staff Ride International Staff Ride: D-Day
2/16/2015 Speaker Christine Young; Kristin Sharp; Ella Lipin Team Chief for CIA Directorate of Intelligence; Legislative Director for Senator Mark Pryor; Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations
2/11/2015 Speaker Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael Flynn Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
2/9/2015 Speaker Admiral Michael Rogers Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the NSA
2/6/2015 Speaker Jacques Hymans Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California
1/27/2015 Speaker John Nagl Author of "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife"
1/26/2015 Speaker Michael Singh Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
1/22/2015 Speaker William Eacho Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
1/13/2015 Speaker Jake Sullivan National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden
12/2/2014 Speaker Stephen J. Hadley Former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
11/20/2014 Speaker Lisa Curtis & Jason Kirk Fellow at The Heritage Foundation; Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Elon University
11/19/2014 Speaker General (Ret.) Douglas Fraser Commander of U.S. Southern Command
11/12/2014 Speaker Cynthia Buckley Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
11/12/2014 Speaker Peter Erben Senior Global Electoral Adviser and County Director for IFES
11/5/2014 Speaker Robert Litwak Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service
11/4/2014 Speaker Jim Walsh Senior Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Security Studies Program (SSP)
10/29/2014 Speaker Daniel Philpott Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame
10/27/2014 Speaker Bruce Jentleson; Abdeslam Maghraoui;
Omid Safi; David Schanzer
William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke; Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science at Duke; Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke; Professor of the Practice at Sanford
10/23/2014 Speaker John Horgan Director of the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at UMASS Lowell
10/15/2014 Speaker Rick Atkinson Author of "The Longest Day"
10/9/2014 Speaker Peter Feaver & Paul Teller Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke; Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Cruz
9/25/2014 Speaker Colin Dueck Professor at George Mason University
9/10/2014 Speaker Fran Townsend & Daniel Benjamin Former Chair of the Homeland Security Council for President Bush; Former Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State
9/3/2014 Speaker Marc Trachtenberg Professor of Political Science at UCLA
8/26/2014 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
4/21/2014 Speaker Daniel Poneman Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy
4/11/2014 Speaker General Raymond Odierno Chief of Staff of the Army
4/3/2014 Field Trip Trip to Washington, D.C.
3/31/2014 Speaker William Inboden Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council
3/27/2014 Career AGS and AHS Upperclassmen:
Public Sector Internships
3/18/2014 Speaker Daniel Drezner Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
3/6/2014 Speaker Karl Eikenberry Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
2/26/2014 Career Duke Counterterrorism Public Policy Fellows
and Hart Leadership Career Panel
2/24/2014 Speaker Richard Immerman Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic Integrity and Standards, Analytic Ombudsman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2/19/2014 Speaker Joel Kaplan Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
2/14/2014 Speaker Benjamin Miller Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa
2/6/2014 Speaker David Adesnik Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
2/4/2014 Speaker Peter Baker White House Correspondent for The New York Times
1/30/2014 Speaker Steve Biddle Professor of Political Science at George Washington University
1/27/2014 Speaker Francis Gavin Chair of Nuclear Security Policy at the University of Texas at Austin
1/17/2014 Speaker Britt Slabinski Former Navy SEAL
1/14/2014 Speaker Michael Allen Author of "Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11"
12/16/2013 Alumni AGS Alumni in D.C. Reception
11/23/2013 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
11/22/2013 Staff Ride Operation Anaconda Virtual Staff Ride
11/14/2013 Speaker Erez Manela Professor of History at Harvard University
11/11/2013 Speaker Michael V. Hayden & Barton Gellman Former Director of the CIA and NSA; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
11/4/2013 Career AGS Alumni Career Panel
11/4/2013 Speaker George Selim Director of Community Partnerships on the National Security Council
10/29/2013 Speaker Kori Schake Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
10/23/2013 Speaker Robert Gallucci Chief U.S. negotiator during North Korean Nuclear Crisis of 1994
10/21/2013 Speaker Melvyn Leffler Professor of History at the University of Virginia
9/25/2013 Speaker Tom Nides Former Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
9/17/2013 Speaker Ole R. Holsti Professor of Political Science at Duke University
9/11/2013 Speaker David H. Petraeus Former Director of the CIA
8/28/2013 Speaker Farah Pandith Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the U.S. Department of State
8/26/2013 Social AGS Ice Cream Social
4/26/2013 Alumni Breakfast with AGS Alumnus
4/12/2013 Staff Ride Gettysburg Staff Ride
4/4/2013 Speaker Anthony Cucolo Former Army Chief of Public Affairs
4/1/2013 Speaker Lieutenant General (Ret.) H.R. McMaster Commanding General, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence
3/20/2013 Speaker Brent Scowcroft Lieutenant General
3/4/2013 Speaker Rebiya Kadeer President of the World Uyghur Congress
2/20/2013 Speaker Kurt Campbell Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
2/12/2013 Speaker Senator Richard Lugar Former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1/28/2013 Speaker Thomas Lehrman Partner at Haystack Partners
11/29/2012 Speaker Ashton Carter Deputy Secretary of Defense
11/15/2012 Career AGS Career Night
11/14/2012 Speaker John Zogby Founder of the world famous Zogby poll
11/14/2012 Speaker Jack Goldsmith Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush
11/7/2012 Misc Election Night Event
10/22/2012 Speaker Karl Rove & Howard Dean Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff under President George Bush; Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee
10/9/2012 Misc Campaign Class Debate
10/4/2012 Speaker Thom Shanker Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times
9/27/2012 Speaker Michele Flournoy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
9/20/2012 Speaker Peter Beinart Former editor of The New Republic
9/10/2012 Speaker Jon Huntsman Jr. Former Governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and China
4/10/2012 Speaker Condoleezza Rice Former Secretary of State
3/13/2012 Speaker R. James Woolsey Former Director of Central Intelligence
1/17/2012 Speaker John Negroponte Former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the UN, and Iraq
3/1/2012 Field Trip Trip to Washington, D.C.
1/12/2012 Speaker General Martin Dempsey 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
12/7/2011 Speaker Dan Blumenthal Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
12/1/2011 Career AGS Career Night
11/14/2011 Speaker Jeremi Suri Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
11/9/2011 Alumni AGS Reunion in Washington, D.C.
11/1/2011 Staff Ride Fredericksburg Staff Ride
11/1/2011 Speaker Anne-Marie Slaughter Former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. Department of State
10/26/2011 Speaker Douglas Lute Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
10/20/2011 Speaker Janet Napolitano Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
9/23/2011 Speaker Arzu Kibris Associate Professor in Political Science and Conflict Studies
9/8/2011 Speaker Juan Zarate Deputy National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism
3/31/2011 Speaker Mike Holmes General, Air Combatant Command
3/2/2011 Speaker Dan Reiter Professor of Political Science at Emory University
2/28/2011 Speaker James Steinberg Former Deputy Secretary of State
2/3/2011 Speaker Peter Baker White House Correspondent for The New York Times
1/25/2011 Speaker Charles Kupchan Former Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council
1/18/2011 Speaker Farah Pandith Special Representative to Muslim Communities
1/17/2011 Speaker Aldona Wos Former U.S. Ambassador to Estonia
12/1/2010 Speaker Shireen Hunter Visiting Fellow at Georgetown's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for
Muslim Christian Understanding
10/27/2010 Speaker Bob Woodward Best-selling author and Washington Post reporter
9/29/2010 Speaker Robert Gates Secretary of Defense
9/23/2010 Speaker Robert Jervis Professor of International Politics at Columbia University
9/7/2010 Speaker Richard Danzig Former Secretary of the U.S. Navy
4/17/2010 Staff Ride Cowpens Staff Ride
3/23/2010 Speaker Joseph Nye, Jr. Former Assistant Secretary of State
3/16/2010 Speaker Elliott Abrams Former Deputy National Security Director
2/26/2010 Field Trip Trip to Fort Bragg
2/22/2010 Speaker William Burns Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
2/11/2010 Speaker Mahmood Mamdani Professor at Columbia University
1/27/2010 Speaker Sir Nigel Sheinwald British Ambassador to the U.S.
1/25/2010 Speaker Stephen Stedman Former Assistant Secretary General of the UN
11/9/2009 Speaker Fareed Zakaria Journalist and political commentator
11/6/2009 Speaker Kurt Campbell Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
10/29/2009 Speaker Meghan O'Sullivan Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
10/27/2009 Speaker Douglas Faith Former Undersecretary of Defense
10/13/2009 Career Careers in Security Studies Panel
10/1/2009 Speaker John Bolton Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN
9/20/2009 Speaker H.R. McMaster Brigadier General, TRADOC
9/10/2009 Speaker John Hillen Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Non-Partisan Affairs
3/26/2009 Speaker Stephen J. Hadley Former National Security Advisor to President Bush
3/5/2009 Speaker Paul Kennedy Grand Strategy historian
3/2/2009 Speaker John Gaddis Cold War historian
1/14/2009 Speaker Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Michael Doran Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
11/13/2008 Speaker Juan Zarate Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for combating terrorism
11/7/2008 Speaker Jeremy Black Historian and professor of history at the University of Exeter
10/23/2008 Speaker David E. Sanger Chief Washington Correspondent at the New York Times
10/7/2008 Speaker Derek Chollet Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
Strategic Planning on the National Security Council
10/1/2008 Speaker Peter Wehner Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House
Office of Strategic Initiative
3/26/2008 Speaker Stephen J. Hadley Former National Security Advisor to President Bush
3/5/2008 Speaker Paul Kennedy Historian and news writer
2/26/2008 Speaker John Gaddis Professor of Non-Partisan and Naval History at Yale University
12/3/2007 Speaker Karl Rove Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush