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Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n | Speaker Role(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/4\/2025<\/td>\n | Evan Bloom<\/td>\n | Global Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/27\/2025<\/td>\n | Dafna Hochman Rand<\/td>\n | Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/26\/2025<\/td>\n | Hal Brands<\/td>\n | Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/13\/2025<\/td>\n | Tamara Cofman Wittes<\/td>\n | President of the National Democratic Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/10\/2025<\/td>\n | Mike Pompeo<\/td>\n | Former Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/3\/2025<\/td>\n | Tanvi Madan<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/30\/2025<\/td>\n | Dan Blumenthal<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/13\/2025<\/td>\n | Mara Karlin<\/td>\n | Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12\/3\/2024<\/td>\n | Yuval Levin & Ramesh Ponnuru<\/td>\n | Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; | \nEditor of National Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 11\/19\/2024<\/td>\n | Avichai Mandelblit<\/td>\n | Former Attorney General of Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/19\/2024<\/td>\n | Ambassador Joan A. Polaschik<\/td>\n | Director of the Foreign Service Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/6\/2024<\/td>\n | Rosa Brooks<\/td>\n | Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/6\/2024<\/td>\n | Frank Bruni; D. Sunshine Hillygus;\u00a0 Peter Feaver<\/td>\n | 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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/30\/2024<\/td>\n | Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/28\/2024<\/td>\n | Elbridge Colby<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/22\/2024<\/td>\n | Karl Rove & David Axelrod<\/td>\n | Republican Strategist; Democratic Strategist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/8\/2024<\/td>\n | Sara Castro<\/td>\n | Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/1\/2024<\/td>\n | Michael G. Vickers<\/td>\n | Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/26\/2024<\/td>\n | Anja Manuel<\/td>\n | Executive Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/25\/2024<\/td>\n | Gwen Camp & Tate Nurkin<\/td>\n | Former senior executive at FEMA; Game designer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/10\/2024<\/td>\n | Yuval Levin<\/td>\n | Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/5\/2024<\/td>\n | Monica Medina<\/td>\n | Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and | \nScientific Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 9\/4\/2024<\/td>\n | Liz Cheney<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Representative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 8\/29\/2024<\/td>\n | General Paul M. Nakasone<\/td>\n | Former Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/15\/2024<\/td>\n | Dan Senor<\/td>\n | Columnist and former Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Mitt Romney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/10\/2024<\/td>\n | Tara Zahra<\/td>\n | Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/8\/2024<\/td>\n | Robert Satloff<\/td>\n | Segal Executive Director of The Washington Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/4\/2024<\/td>\n | General Bryan P. Fenton<\/td>\n | Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/2\/2024<\/td>\n | David Rubenstein & Fareed Zakaria<\/td>\n | Philanthropist; Political Commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/26\/2024<\/td>\n | Amb. Kay Bailey Hutchison & Amb. Douglas Lute<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Permanent Representatives to NATO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/20\/2024<\/td>\n | Yuval Levin<\/td>\n | Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the | \nAmerican Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 3\/8\/2024<\/td>\n | Condoleeza Rice<\/td>\n | Former Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/26\/2024<\/td>\n | Elizabeth Economy<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/13\/2024<\/td>\n | Daniel Kurtzer<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/5\/2024<\/td>\n | Nicholas Kristof<\/td>\n | Columnist for the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/1\/2024<\/td>\n | Matthew Connolly<\/td>\n | Professor of International and Global History at Columbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/25\/2024<\/td>\n | Lieutenant General Christopher T. Donahue<\/td>\n | Commander, XVIII Airborne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/23\/2024<\/td>\n | Matthew C. Waxman<\/td>\n | Professor of Law at Columbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/18\/2024<\/td>\n | Bonny Lin<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/16\/2024<\/td>\n | Peter Beinart<\/td>\n | Journalist and political commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12\/5\/2023<\/td>\n | Melvyn P. Leffler<\/td>\n | Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/28\/2023<\/td>\n | Daniel F. Runde<\/td>\n | Senior Vice President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/16\/2023<\/td>\n | Mariana Budjeryn<\/td>\n | Senior Research Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard’s Belfer Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/15\/2023<\/td>\n | Christine Wormuth<\/td>\n | Secretary of the Army<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/7\/2023<\/td>\n | Major General (Ret.) William J. Walker<\/td>\n | Former Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/25\/2023<\/td>\n | Dahlia Scheindlin<\/td>\n | Policy Fellow at the Century Foundation and former advisor to Israeli national electoral campaigns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/11\/2023<\/td>\n | Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/3\/2023<\/td>\n | Ambassador Thomas Nides<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/28\/2023<\/td>\n | General (Ret.) Martin Dempsey; Sarah Hirshland; | \nMike Krzyzewski; Adam Silver<\/td>\n Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; CEO of USOPC; Former Head Coach of Duke Men’s Basketball; Commissioner of the NBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/19\/2023<\/td>\n | Kori Schake<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the | \nAmerican Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 9\/14\/2023<\/td>\n | Heidi A. Urben & Peter Feaver<\/td>\n | Professor of the Practice and Director of External Education and Outreach at Georgetown | \nUniversity; Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke and AGS Director<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 9\/7\/2023<\/td>\n | Giselle Donnolly<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 8\/29\/2023<\/td>\n | Colin Kahl<\/td>\n | Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/6\/2023<\/td>\n | General Austin S. Miller<\/td>\n | Former Commander of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan and Resolute Support Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/28\/2023<\/td>\n | Ghaith al-Omari & Dov Weissglas<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Lawyer and businessman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/22\/2023<\/td>\n | Naftali Bennett<\/td>\n | Former Prime Minister of Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/21\/2023<\/td>\n | Stephen Hadley<\/td>\n | Former National Security Advisor to President Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/2\/2023<\/td>\n | Or Rabinowitz<\/td>\n | Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/21\/2023<\/td>\n | Rose Gottemoeller<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/13\/2023<\/td>\n | Bruce Jentleson<\/td>\n | William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/8\/2023<\/td>\n | Ambassador Gentry Smith<\/td>\n | Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/1\/2023<\/td>\n | Talbot Imlay<\/td>\n | Lecturer in History at the Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/26\/2023<\/td>\n | Ambassador Gordon Sondland<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/19\/2023<\/td>\n | Eric Farnsworth<\/td>\n | Vice President, AS\/COA, Washington, D.C. office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/12\/2023<\/td>\n | William Inboden<\/td>\n | Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair, Clements Center for National Security; | \nAssociate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 11\/17\/2022<\/td>\n | Daniel Strunk<\/td>\n | Duke\/AGS Alumni<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/16\/2022<\/td>\n | Susan Colbourn<\/td>\n | Diplomatic and international historian and Associate Director of AGS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/14\/2022<\/td>\n | Linda Thomas-Greenfield<\/td>\n | U.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/9\/2022<\/td>\n | Katherine Tai<\/td>\n | United States Trade Representative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/1\/2022<\/td>\n | Ray Takeyh<\/td>\n | Author and former Senior Advisor on Iran for the U.S. Department of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/25\/2022<\/td>\n | Elisabeth Leake<\/td>\n | Author and former Fellow at the University of London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/18\/2022<\/td>\n | Patricia Larsen; Mirriam Grace-McIntyre; Tricia Wellman<\/td>\n | Intelligence Practitioners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/5\/2022<\/td>\n | David French<\/td>\n | Political commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/3\/2022<\/td>\n | Susan B Glasser<\/td>\n | Journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/28\/2022<\/td>\n | Carrie Filipetti<\/td>\n | Executive Director of the Vandenberg Coalition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/21\/2022<\/td>\n | Joseph Torigian<\/td>\n | Author and international relations scholar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/7\/2022<\/td>\n | Thomas Brzozowski<\/td>\n | Counsel for Domestic Terrorism at the U.S. Department of Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/1\/2022<\/td>\n | General Charles Q Brown<\/td>\n | Chief of Staff of the Air Force<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 7\/28\/2022<\/td>\n | David Sanger<\/td>\n | White House Correspondent at the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/12\/2022<\/td>\n | Louis DeJoy<\/td>\n | Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Postal Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/6\/2022<\/td>\n | Kevin Rudd<\/td>\n | Former Prime Minister of Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/5\/2022<\/td>\n | Christopher Hancock<\/td>\n | Author of “Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/23\/2022<\/td>\n | Peter Jackson<\/td>\n | Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/22\/2022<\/td>\n | Major General Scott Jackson<\/td>\n | Commanding General of Security Force Assistance Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/1\/2022<\/td>\n | Michael McFaul<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/28\/2022<\/td>\n | Michael Sfraga<\/td>\n | U.S. Arctic Research Commission Chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/16\/2022<\/td>\n | Jean Lee<\/td>\n | Former Pyongyang Bureau Chief, Associated Press<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/15\/2022<\/td>\n | Philip Ritcheson<\/td>\n | Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Mission Performance, Analysis and Collection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/10\/2022<\/td>\n | Michael Abramowitz<\/td>\n | President of Freedom House<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/8\/2022<\/td>\n | Theodora Dragostinova<\/td>\n | Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/1\/2022<\/td>\n | David French<\/td>\n | Political commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/26\/2022<\/td>\n | Major General Amos Yadlin<\/td>\n | Former Major General of the Israeli Air Force<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/20\/2022<\/td>\n | Alexandra Evans<\/td>\n | Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/18\/2021<\/td>\n | Vladislav M. Zubok<\/td>\n | Professor of International History at the London School of Economics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/12\/2021<\/td>\n | General Mark A. Milley<\/td>\n | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/3\/2021<\/td>\n | Amanda C. Demmer<\/td>\n | Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Tech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/1\/2021<\/td>\n | Jane Harman<\/td>\n | Former Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/27\/2021<\/td>\n | Sophie Richardson<\/td>\n | China Director at Human Rights Watch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/14\/2021<\/td>\n | Wyndee Parker<\/td>\n | National Security Advisor to the Speaker of the House<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/12\/2021<\/td>\n | Jussi Hanhim\u00e4ki<\/td>\n | Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/29\/2021<\/td>\n | Andrew Preston & Christopher Nichols<\/td>\n | Professors of History<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/23\/2021<\/td>\n | Nasirullah “John” Safi<\/td>\n | Interpreter for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/15\/2021<\/td>\n | Stephen J. Hadley<\/td>\n | Former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/9\/2021<\/td>\n | Wajahat Ali<\/td>\n | Writer and leading Muslim American public intellectual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/7\/2021<\/td>\n | Mich\u00e8le Flournoy<\/td>\n | Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/1\/2021<\/td>\n | Michael Singh<\/td>\n | Former Senior Director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 8\/25\/2021<\/td>\n | Douglas Lute<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Representative to NATO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 7\/29\/2021<\/td>\n | Sue Gordon<\/td>\n | Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 6\/14\/2021<\/td>\n | General Martin Dempsey<\/td>\n | Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/7\/2021<\/td>\n | Brigadier General Jerry Carter<\/td>\n | Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/29\/2021<\/td>\n | Mois\u00e9s Na\u00edm<\/td>\n | Journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/18\/2021<\/td>\n | Charles Kupchan<\/td>\n | Author and former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/17\/2021<\/td>\n | Najat Al-Saied & Nir Boms<\/td>\n | Former Assistant Professor at Zayed University; former Vice President of the Washington based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/4\/2021<\/td>\n | Kaitlyn Johnson<\/td>\n | Deputy Director & Fellow of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and | \nInternational Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/24\/2021<\/td>\n | COL Jon Harvey; COL Matt Ross; FBI Supervisory Special Agent Matt Whittemore<\/td>\n | CTPP Fellows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/17\/2021<\/td>\n | Kim Ghattas<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Interational Peace and former BBC Journalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/15\/2021<\/td>\n | Jenny Arnold; Lietuenant Gia DeHart; Lieutenant Colonel Randee Farrell; Lieutenant Colonel Tina Hayes; Margalit Murray<\/td>\n | Senior Civil Servant in the DoD; Human Resources Officer for the Navy Reserves; | \nU.S. Army Public Affairs Officer; Nuclear Proliferation and Countering WMD Specialist; Supervisory Special Agent at the U.S. Department of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/10\/2021<\/td>\n | Ben Wittes<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow, Research Director in Public Law and Co-Director of the | \nHarvard Law School-Brookings Project on Law and Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/3\/2021<\/td>\n | Brad Wiegmann<\/td>\n | Senior Counselor, National Security Division<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/25\/2021<\/td>\n | Sue Gordon; Bruce Jentleson; David Schanzer<\/td>\n | Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, William Preston Few Distinguished | \nProfessor of Public Policy at Duke, Professor of the Practice at Sanford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 11\/9\/2020<\/td>\n | Philip Zelikow<\/td>\n | Executive Director of the 9\/11 Commission and former State Department Counselor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/26\/2020<\/td>\n | Mohammad Darawshe<\/td>\n | Leading political analyst for the Israeli press<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/19\/2020<\/td>\n | Melvin Gamble<\/td>\n | Former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/15\/2020<\/td>\n | Simon Miles<\/td>\n | Assistant Professor of History at Duke University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/14\/2020<\/td>\n | H.R. McMaster<\/td>\n | Former National Security Advisor for President Trump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/7\/2020<\/td>\n | Mary Elise Sarotte<\/td>\n | Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/1\/2020<\/td>\n | Michael Oren<\/td>\n | Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/29\/2020<\/td>\n | Robert Zoellick<\/td>\n | Former Head of the World Bank and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/22\/2020<\/td>\n | Laura Rosenberger<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Serving Democracy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/17\/2020<\/td>\n | Thomas Schwartz<\/td>\n | Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/14\/2020<\/td>\n | Frank Hill<\/td>\n | Director of the Institute for the Public Trust<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/10\/2020<\/td>\n | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Erroll Southers<\/td>\n | Leading U.S. experts on white supremacist extremism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/3\/2020<\/td>\n | Kashmir Hill<\/td>\n | New York Times Technology Reporter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/1\/2020<\/td>\n | Juliette Kayyem<\/td>\n | Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of | \nHomeland Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 8\/27\/2020<\/td>\n | Susan Rice<\/td>\n | Former U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 7\/31\/2020<\/td>\n | General Ronald P. Clark<\/td>\n | Chief of Staff for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 5\/12\/2020<\/td>\n | Jolynn Dellinger; David Hoffman; | \nDavid Schanzer; Shane Stansbury<\/td>\n Stephen and Janet Bear Visiting Lecturer at Duke Law\u00a0 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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 5\/5\/2020<\/td>\n | Paul Teller<\/td>\n | Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Vice President<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/22\/2020<\/td>\n | Kathleen Hicks; Kelly Magsamen; Kori Schake<\/td>\n | Professionals in the national security\/foreign policy sector<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/15\/2020<\/td>\n | Yossi Klein Halevi<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/9\/2020<\/td>\n | Robert Zoellick<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/2\/2020<\/td>\n | Sue Gordon<\/td>\n | Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/27\/2020<\/td>\n | Sara Vakhshouri<\/td>\n | Founder and President of SVB Energy International<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/17\/2020<\/td>\n | John Bolton<\/td>\n | Former National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/12\/2020<\/td>\n | Gary Haugen<\/td>\n | Founder and CEO of International Justice Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/10\/2020<\/td>\n | Liam Collins<\/td>\n | Former Aide to General (ret.) Abizaid for Sec Def Mission as Senior Defense Advisor to | \nUkraine (2016-2018); Retired Special Forces Colonel and former Director of the Modern War Institute at West Point<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/4\/2020<\/td>\n | Richard Fontaine<\/td>\n | CEO of the Center for a New American Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/27\/2020<\/td>\n | Rick Barton<\/td>\n | Former Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/15\/2020<\/td>\n | Kristen Silverberg<\/td>\n | Executive Vice President for Policy at Business Roundtable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12\/5\/2019<\/td>\n | Nivruti Rai<\/td>\n | Vice President of Intel Foundry Services and head of Intel India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12\/3\/2019<\/td>\n | Samantha Power<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/26\/2019<\/td>\n | Samm Sacks<\/td>\n | Cybersecurity Policy & China Digital Economy Fellow at New America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/25\/2019<\/td>\n | Petra Goedde<\/td>\n | Professor at American University’s School of International Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/25\/2019<\/td>\n | Joshua Bolten & Denis McDonough<\/td>\n | Former White House Chief of Staff to President Bush; Former White House Chief of Staff | \nto President Obama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 11\/13\/2019<\/td>\n | Robin Kirk; Tim Nichols; David Schanzer<\/td>\n | 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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/8\/2019<\/td>\n | Audrey Kurth Cronin<\/td>\n | Distinguished Professor at American University’s School of International Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/28\/2019<\/td>\n | Tzipi Livni<\/td>\n | Former Foreign Minister of Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/19\/2019<\/td>\n | David E. Sanger<\/td>\n | National Security Correspondent for the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/16\/2019<\/td>\n | Peter Wehner<\/td>\n | Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/14\/2019<\/td>\n | Timothy Andrews Sayle<\/td>\n | Assistant Professor of History and Director of the International Relations Program at the | \nUniversity of Toronto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 10\/2\/2019<\/td>\n | Fredrik Logevall<\/td>\n | Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/1\/2019<\/td>\n | William J. Burns<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/23\/2019<\/td>\n | Samantha Ravich<\/td>\n | Defense & intelligence policy and tech entrepreneur<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/16\/2019<\/td>\n | Eric Lorber<\/td>\n | Senior Director, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Former Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/11\/2019<\/td>\n | Farah Pandith<\/td>\n | Counterterrorism and violent extremism expert<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/5\/2019<\/td>\n | Jim Steinberg<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/16\/2019<\/td>\n | Lisa Disbrow<\/td>\n | Former Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/10\/2019<\/td>\n | Robert Satloff<\/td>\n | Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/9\/2019<\/td>\n | Andrew McCabe<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Director of the FBI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/3\/2019<\/td>\n | Michele Flournoy<\/td>\n | Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/20\/2019<\/td>\n | Michael Morgan<\/td>\n | Associate Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/19\/2019<\/td>\n | Gordon Sondland<\/td>\n | Ambassador to the EU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/6\/2019<\/td>\n | John Kelly<\/td>\n | Former White House Chief of Staff to President Trump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/28\/2019<\/td>\n | Madeleine Albright<\/td>\n | Former Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/25\/2019<\/td>\n | Deborah McCarthy; General (Ret.) Sean MacFarland; Stuart Jones<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania; retired General; Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/12\/2019<\/td>\n | Rick Atkinson<\/td>\n | Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/6\/2019<\/td>\n | James M. Lindsay<\/td>\n | Leading authority on the American foreign policymaking process and the domestic politics of American foreign policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/31\/2019<\/td>\n | Joshua Shrifrinson<\/td>\n | Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/29\/2019<\/td>\n | Brett McGurk<\/td>\n | Former Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/24\/2019<\/td>\n | General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal<\/td>\n | Commander of U.S. and Intemational Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/15\/2019<\/td>\n | Dan Blumenthal<\/td>\n | Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/14\/2019<\/td>\n | Leo MacKay<\/td>\n | Senior Vice President, Ethics and Enterprise Assurance at Lockheed Martin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12\/3\/2018<\/td>\n | David Priess<\/td>\n | Writer and speaker on the presidency, national security, and intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/28\/2018<\/td>\n | Artur Mas<\/td>\n | Former President of Catalonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/5\/2018<\/td>\n | General Joseph F. Dunford<\/td>\n | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/22\/2018<\/td>\n | Peter Singer<\/td>\n | Political scientist specializing in international relations and modern warfare<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/15\/2018<\/td>\n | Stephanie O’Sullivan<\/td>\n | Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/2\/2018<\/td>\n | Michael Wear & Farr Curlin<\/td>\n | 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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/27\/2018<\/td>\n | Sarah Snyder<\/td>\n | Historian of U.S. foreign relations specializing in human rights and the Cold War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/6\/2018<\/td>\n | Thomas Pickering<\/td>\n | Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to the UN, the | \nRussian Federation, India, Israel, and Jordan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 9\/5\/2018<\/td>\n | Michael McFaul<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 5\/3\/2018<\/td>\n | Condoleezza Rice & Amy Zegart<\/td>\n | Former Secretary of State; Senior Fellow at FSI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/19\/2018<\/td>\n | William Hitchcock<\/td>\n | Professor of History at the University of Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/12\/2018<\/td>\n | Scott Sagan<\/td>\n | Professor of Political Science at Stanford University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/5\/2018<\/td>\n | Nikki Haley<\/td>\n | U.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/22\/2018<\/td>\n | William Taubman<\/td>\n | Bernard Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/28\/2018<\/td>\n | Jendayi Frazer<\/td>\n | Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/22\/2018<\/td>\n | Dominick Wright<\/td>\n | Deputy Director of Analysis at the Pentagon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/15\/2018<\/td>\n | Brian Hook<\/td>\n | Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State, Director of Policy Planning under Rex Tillerson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/12\/2018<\/td>\n | General Lori Robinson<\/td>\n | Commander, U.S. NORTHCOM & NORAD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/7\/2018<\/td>\n | Elliot Abrams<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/30\/2018<\/td>\n | Jennifer Bryson & Ismail Royer<\/td>\n | Writer and translator; Writer and religious sciences scholar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/24\/2018<\/td>\n | General (Ret.) Martin Dempsey<\/td>\n | Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/22\/2018<\/td>\n | Marc Sageman<\/td>\n | Former CIA Case Officer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/16\/2018<\/td>\n | Peter Wittig<\/td>\n | German Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12\/5\/2017<\/td>\n | Victor Cha<\/td>\n | Former NCS Director of Asian Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12\/4\/2017<\/td>\n | Reince Priebus<\/td>\n | Former Chief of Staff to President Trump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/29\/2017<\/td>\n | John Podesta<\/td>\n | Chair of Hillary for America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/28\/2017<\/td>\n | Jeff Engel<\/td>\n | Director of the Center for Presidential History<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/13\/2017<\/td>\n | Laszlo Szabo<\/td>\n | Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/20\/2017<\/td>\n | Amjad Bseisu<\/td>\n | Enquest CEO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/30\/2017<\/td>\n | Adam Schiff<\/td>\n | U.S. Representative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/19\/2017<\/td>\n | Paul Teller<\/td>\n | Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/12\/2017<\/td>\n | Os Guinness<\/td>\n | Prolific writer and social critic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/4\/2017<\/td>\n | Megan McArdle<\/td>\n | Writer for Bloomberg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/25\/2017<\/td>\n | Avril Haines<\/td>\n | Former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, Deputy Director of the CIA and Legal Advisor to the NSC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/14\/2017<\/td>\n | Lisa Monaco<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Homeland Security Advisor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/13\/2017<\/td>\n | Graham Allison<\/td>\n | Professor at the JFK School of Government at Harvard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/6\/2017<\/td>\n | Jim Carafano<\/td>\n | Vice President of The Heritage Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/21\/2017<\/td>\n | General Keith Alexander<\/td>\n | Former Commander of U.S. CYBERCOM and former Director of the NSA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/7\/2017<\/td>\n | Joseph S. Nye Jr.<\/td>\n | Former Dean, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/27\/2017<\/td>\n | Admiral Kurt Tidd<\/td>\n | Commander of U.S. Southern Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/23\/2017<\/td>\n | Charlie Hill<\/td>\n | Lecturer in International Studies at Yale University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/21\/2017<\/td>\n | Jared Cohen<\/td>\n | President of Jigsaw<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/8\/2017<\/td>\n | David McCormick<\/td>\n | co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates and former Under Secretary of the Treasury for | \nInternational Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/24\/2017<\/td>\n | Kori Schake<\/td>\n | Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/23\/2017<\/td>\n | Rosa Brooks<\/td>\n | Former Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Columnist at Foreign Policy | \nMagazine, Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Georgetown University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/14\/2017<\/td>\n | Will Tobey<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration within the U.S. Department of Energy, Senior Fellow, | \nBelfer Center for Science and Intemational Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/10\/2017<\/td>\n | Christopher Kirchhoff<\/td>\n | Former Director For Strategic Planning on the National Security Council, Partner at the | \nDefense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/1\/2017<\/td>\n | Paul Miller<\/td>\n | 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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/25\/2017<\/td>\n | Colin Kahl<\/td>\n | Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/3\/2016<\/td>\n | Peter Wehner<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of | \nStrategic Initiaitive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 11\/1\/2016<\/td>\n | Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis<\/td>\n | Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/25\/2016<\/td>\n | Jim Messina & Karl Rove<\/td>\n | Campaign manager for Barack Obama; Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff to | \nPresident Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 10\/19\/2016<\/td>\n | Ambassador Hahn Choonq-hee<\/td>\n | Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/18\/2016<\/td>\n | Heather Hurlburt & Robert Karem<\/td>\n | Foreign policy advisor to the Clinton campaign; Assistant Secretary of Defense for | \nInternational Security Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 10\/4\/2016<\/td>\n | Michael Green<\/td>\n | Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the CSIS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/14\/2016<\/td>\n | Dina Powell<\/td>\n | Former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/8\/2016<\/td>\n | Jeh C. Johnson<\/td>\n | Former Secretary of Homeland Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/15\/2016<\/td>\n | General (Ret.) Martin Dempsey & Denis McDonough<\/td>\n | Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Former White House Chief of Staff to President Obama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/1\/2016<\/td>\n | Valerie Hudson<\/td>\n | Professor of Political Science at The Bush School of Government and Public Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/31\/2016<\/td>\n | Lukman Faily<\/td>\n | Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/23\/2016<\/td>\n | Taavi Roivas<\/td>\n | Prime Minister of Estonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/3\/2016<\/td>\n | Jon Rosenwasser<\/td>\n | Minority Budget Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/3\/2016<\/td>\n | Megan O’Sullivan<\/td>\n | Former Deputy National Security Adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/18\/2016<\/td>\n | Deborah James & Sue Gordon<\/td>\n | Secretary of the Air Force; Deputy Director of the NGA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/9\/2016<\/td>\n | Jonathan Fox<\/td>\n | Professor of Political Science at Bar-llan University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/4\/2016<\/td>\n | Ambassador Wendy Sherman<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/27\/2016<\/td>\n | Scooter Libby<\/td>\n | Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/21\/2016<\/td>\n | David Sanger<\/td>\n | Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/19\/2015<\/td>\n | Tom Donilon<\/td>\n | Former National Security Advisor to President Obama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/12\/2015<\/td>\n | Robert Jordan<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/2\/2015<\/td>\n | Jack Matlock & Aldona Wos<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR; Former U.S. Ambassador to Estonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/26\/2015<\/td>\n | Walter Russell Mead<\/td>\n | Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, author of | \n“Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 10\/20\/2015<\/td>\n | General (Ret.) John Abizaid<\/td>\n | Former Commander of U.S. CENTCOM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/30\/2015<\/td>\n | Mel Middleton<\/td>\n | Executive Director of Freedom Quest International<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/24\/2015<\/td>\n | Thomas Christensen<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/10\/2015<\/td>\n | Jessica Stern<\/td>\n | Expert and academic scholar of terrorism studies, co -author of “ISIS: The State of Terror”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/1\/2015<\/td>\n | Derek Chollet<\/td>\n | former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/17\/2015<\/td>\n | Juan Zarate<\/td>\n | Senior Adviser at CSIS and former Deputy National Security Advisor on Terrorism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/10\/2015<\/td>\n | Stephen Brooks<\/td>\n | Professor of Government at Darmouth College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/9\/2015<\/td>\n | Richard Betts<\/td>\n | Professor Emeritus of War and Peace Studies and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/8\/2015<\/td>\n | Mitt Romney<\/td>\n | Former Governor of Massachusetts and Republican presidential nominee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/31\/2015<\/td>\n | Michael Gerson & E.J. Dionne<\/td>\n | Former presidential speechwriter and current Washington Post opinion writer;\u00a0 Washington Post columnist and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/24\/2015<\/td>\n | Lieutenant General (Ret.) Dan Bolger<\/td>\n | Author of “Why We Lost”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/16\/2015<\/td>\n | Christine Young; Kristin Sharp; Ella Lipin<\/td>\n | Team Chief for CIA Directorate of Intelligence; Legislative Director for Senator Mark Pryor; | \nResearch Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/11\/2015<\/td>\n | Lieutenant General (Ret.) Michael Flynn<\/td>\n | Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/9\/2015<\/td>\n | Admiral Michael Rogers<\/td>\n | Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the NSA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/6\/2015<\/td>\n | Jacques Hymans<\/td>\n | Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/27\/2015<\/td>\n | John Nagl<\/td>\n | Author of “Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/26\/2015<\/td>\n | Michael Singh<\/td>\n | Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/22\/2015<\/td>\n | William Eacho<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/13\/2015<\/td>\n | Jake Sullivan<\/td>\n | National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12\/2\/2014<\/td>\n | Stephen J. Hadley<\/td>\n | Former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/20\/2014<\/td>\n | Lisa Curtis & Jason Kirk<\/td>\n | Fellow at The Heritage Foundation; Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Elon University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/19\/2014<\/td>\n | General (Ret.) Douglas Fraser<\/td>\n | Commander of U.S. Southern Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/12\/2014<\/td>\n | Cynthia Buckley<\/td>\n | Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/12\/2014<\/td>\n | Peter Erben<\/td>\n | Senior Global Electoral Adviser and County Director for IFES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/5\/2014<\/td>\n | Robert Litwak<\/td>\n | Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/4\/2014<\/td>\n | Jim Walsh<\/td>\n | Senior Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of | \nTechnology’s Security Studies Program (SSP)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 10\/29\/2014<\/td>\n | Daniel Philpott<\/td>\n | Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/27\/2014<\/td>\n | Bruce Jentleson; Abdeslam Maghraoui; Omid Safi; David Schanzer<\/td>\n | 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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/23\/2014<\/td>\n | John Horgan<\/td>\n | Director of the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at UMASS Lowell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/15\/2014<\/td>\n | Rick Atkinson<\/td>\n | Author of “The Longest Day”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/9\/2014<\/td>\n | Peter Feaver; Paul Teller<\/td>\n | Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke; Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Cruz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/25\/2014<\/td>\n | Colin Dueck<\/td>\n | Professor at George Mason University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/10\/2014<\/td>\n | Fran Townsend & Daniel Benjamin<\/td>\n | Former Chair of the Homeland Security Council for President Bush; Former Coordinator for | \nCounterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 9\/3\/2014<\/td>\n | Marc Trachtenberg<\/td>\n | Professor of Political Science at UCLA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/21\/2014<\/td>\n | Daniel Poneman<\/td>\n | Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/11\/2014<\/td>\n | General Raymond Odierno<\/td>\n | Chief of Staff of the Army<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/31\/2014<\/td>\n | William Inboden<\/td>\n | Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/18\/2014<\/td>\n | Daniel Drezner<\/td>\n | Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/6\/2014<\/td>\n | Karl Eikenberry<\/td>\n | Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/24\/2014<\/td>\n | Richard Immerman<\/td>\n | Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic Integrity and Standards, | \nAnalytic Ombudsman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 2\/19\/2014<\/td>\n | Joel Kaplan<\/td>\n | Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/14\/2014<\/td>\n | Benjamin Miller<\/td>\n | Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/6\/2014<\/td>\n | David Adesnik<\/td>\n | Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/4\/2014<\/td>\n | Peter Baker<\/td>\n | White House Correspondent for The New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/30\/2014<\/td>\n | Steve Biddle<\/td>\n | Professor of Political Science at George Washington University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/27\/2014<\/td>\n | Francis Gavin<\/td>\n | Chair of Nuclear Security Policy at the University of Texas at Austin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/17\/2014<\/td>\n | Britt Slabinski<\/td>\n | Former Navy SEAL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/14\/2014<\/td>\n | Michael Allen<\/td>\n | Author of “Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9\/11”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/14\/2013<\/td>\n | Erez Manela<\/td>\n | Professor of History at Harvard University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/11\/2013<\/td>\n | Michael V. Hayden & Barton Gellman<\/td>\n | Former Director of the CIA and NSA; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/4\/2013<\/td>\n | George Selim<\/td>\n | Director of Community Partnerships on the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/29\/2013<\/td>\n | Kori Schake<\/td>\n | Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/23\/2013<\/td>\n | Robert Gallucci<\/td>\n | Chief U.S. negotiator during North Korean Nuclear Crisis of 1994<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/21\/2013<\/td>\n | Melvyn Leffler<\/td>\n | Professor of History at the University of Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/25\/2013<\/td>\n | Tom Nides<\/td>\n | Former Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/17\/2013<\/td>\n | Ole R. Holsti<\/td>\n | Professor of Political Science at Duke University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/11\/2013<\/td>\n | David H. Petraeus<\/td>\n | Former Director of the CIA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 8\/28\/2013<\/td>\n | Farah Pandith<\/td>\n | Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the U.S. Department of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/4\/2013<\/td>\n | Anthony Cucolo<\/td>\n | Former Army Chief of Public Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/1\/2013<\/td>\n | Lietuenant General (Ret.) H.R. McMaster<\/td>\n | Commanding General, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/20\/2013<\/td>\n | Brent Scowcroft<\/td>\n | Lieutenant General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/4\/2013<\/td>\n | Rebiya Kadeer<\/td>\n | President of the World Uyghur Congress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/20\/2013<\/td>\n | Kurt Campbell<\/td>\n | Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2\/12\/2013<\/td>\n | Senator Richard Lugar<\/td>\n | Former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1\/28\/2013<\/td>\n | Thomas Lehrman<\/td>\n | Partner at Haystack Partners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/29\/2012<\/td>\n | Ashton Carter<\/td>\n | Deputy Secretary of Defense<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/14\/2012<\/td>\n | John Zogby<\/td>\n | Founder of the world famous Zogby poll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11\/14\/2012<\/td>\n | Jack Goldsmith<\/td>\n | Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10\/22\/2012<\/td>\n | Karl Rove & Howard Dean<\/td>\n | Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff under President George Bush; Former Chair of | \nthe Democratic National Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 10\/4\/2012<\/td>\n | Thom Shanker<\/td>\n | Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/27\/2012<\/td>\n | Michele Flournoy<\/td>\n | Undersecretary of Defense for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/20\/2012<\/td>\n | Peter Beinart<\/td>\n | Former editor of The New Republic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9\/10\/2012<\/td>\n | Jon Huntsman Jr.<\/td>\n | Former Governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4\/10\/2012<\/td>\n | Condoleezza Rice<\/td>\n | Former Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3\/13\/2012<\/td>\n | R. 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