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Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker(s)<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker Role(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/4\/2025<\/td>\nEvan Bloom<\/td>\nGlobal Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/27\/2025<\/td>\nDafna Hochman Rand<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/26\/2025<\/td>\nHal Brands<\/td>\nHenry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/13\/2025<\/td>\nTamara Cofman Wittes<\/td>\nPresident of the National Democratic Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/10\/2025<\/td>\nMike Pompeo<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/3\/2025<\/td>\nTanvi Madan<\/td>\nSenior Fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/30\/2025<\/td>\nDan Blumenthal<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/13\/2025<\/td>\nMara Karlin<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/3\/2024<\/td>\nYuval Levin & Ramesh Ponnuru<\/td>\nDirector of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute;
\nEditor of National Review<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/19\/2024<\/td>\nAvichai Mandelblit<\/td>\nFormer Attorney General of Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/19\/2024<\/td>\nAmbassador Joan A. Polaschik<\/td>\nDirector of the Foreign Service Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/6\/2024<\/td>\nRosa Brooks<\/td>\nProfessor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/6\/2024<\/td>\nFrank Bruni; D. Sunshine Hillygus;\u00a0 Peter Feaver<\/td>\nEugene 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>\nAmbassador Wendy R. Sherman<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/28\/2024<\/td>\nElbridge Colby<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/22\/2024<\/td>\nKarl Rove & David Axelrod<\/td>\nRepublican Strategist; Democratic Strategist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/8\/2024<\/td>\nSara Castro<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/1\/2024<\/td>\nMichael G. Vickers<\/td>\nFormer Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/26\/2024<\/td>\nAnja Manuel<\/td>\nExecutive Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/25\/2024<\/td>\nGwen Camp & Tate Nurkin<\/td>\nFormer senior executive at FEMA; Game designer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/10\/2024<\/td>\nYuval Levin<\/td>\nDirector of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/5\/2024<\/td>\nMonica Medina<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and
\nScientific Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/4\/2024<\/td>\nLiz Cheney<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Representative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/29\/2024<\/td>\nGeneral Paul M. Nakasone<\/td>\nFormer Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/15\/2024<\/td>\nDan Senor<\/td>\nColumnist and former Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Mitt Romney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/10\/2024<\/td>\nTara Zahra<\/td>\nHanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/8\/2024<\/td>\nRobert Satloff<\/td>\nSegal Executive Director of The Washington Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/4\/2024<\/td>\nGeneral Bryan P. Fenton<\/td>\nCommander of U.S. Special Operations Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/2\/2024<\/td>\nDavid Rubenstein & Fareed Zakaria<\/td>\nPhilanthropist; Political Commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/26\/2024<\/td>\nAmb. Kay Bailey Hutchison & Amb. Douglas Lute<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Permanent Representatives to NATO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/20\/2024<\/td>\nYuval Levin<\/td>\nDirector of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the
\nAmerican Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/8\/2024<\/td>\nCondoleeza Rice<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/26\/2024<\/td>\nElizabeth Economy<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/13\/2024<\/td>\nDaniel Kurtzer<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/5\/2024<\/td>\nNicholas Kristof<\/td>\nColumnist for the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/1\/2024<\/td>\nMatthew Connolly<\/td>\nProfessor of International and Global History at Columbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/25\/2024<\/td>\nLieutenant General Christopher T. Donahue<\/td>\nCommander, XVIII Airborne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/23\/2024<\/td>\nMatthew C. Waxman<\/td>\nProfessor of Law at Columbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/18\/2024<\/td>\nBonny Lin<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/16\/2024<\/td>\nPeter Beinart<\/td>\nJournalist and political commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/5\/2023<\/td>\nMelvyn P. Leffler<\/td>\nEdward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/28\/2023<\/td>\nDaniel F. Runde<\/td>\nSenior Vice President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/16\/2023<\/td>\nMariana Budjeryn<\/td>\nSenior Research Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard’s Belfer Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/15\/2023<\/td>\nChristine Wormuth<\/td>\nSecretary of the Army<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/7\/2023<\/td>\nMajor General (Ret.) William J. Walker<\/td>\nFormer Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/25\/2023<\/td>\nDahlia Scheindlin<\/td>\nPolicy Fellow at the Century Foundation and former advisor to Israeli national electoral campaigns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/11\/2023<\/td>\nAmbassador Maria Yovanovitch<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/3\/2023<\/td>\nAmbassador Thomas Nides<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/28\/2023<\/td>\nGeneral (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>\nKori Schake<\/td>\nSenior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the
\nAmerican Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/14\/2023<\/td>\nHeidi A. Urben & Peter Feaver<\/td>\nProfessor 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>\nGiselle Donnolly<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/29\/2023<\/td>\nColin Kahl<\/td>\nFormer Under Secretary of Defense for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/6\/2023<\/td>\nGeneral Austin S. Miller<\/td>\nFormer Commander of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan and Resolute Support Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/28\/2023<\/td>\nGhaith al-Omari & Dov Weissglas<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Lawyer and businessman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/22\/2023<\/td>\nNaftali Bennett<\/td>\nFormer Prime Minister of Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/21\/2023<\/td>\nStephen Hadley<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor to President Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/2\/2023<\/td>\nOr Rabinowitz<\/td>\nAssociate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/21\/2023<\/td>\nRose Gottemoeller<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/13\/2023<\/td>\nBruce Jentleson<\/td>\nWilliam Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/8\/2023<\/td>\nAmbassador Gentry Smith<\/td>\nAssistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/1\/2023<\/td>\nTalbot Imlay<\/td>\nLecturer in History at the Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/26\/2023<\/td>\nAmbassador Gordon Sondland<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to the European Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/19\/2023<\/td>\nEric Farnsworth<\/td>\nVice President, AS\/COA, Washington, D.C. office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/12\/2023<\/td>\nWilliam Inboden<\/td>\nExecutive 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>\nDaniel Strunk<\/td>\nDuke\/AGS Alumni<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/16\/2022<\/td>\nSusan Colbourn<\/td>\nDiplomatic and international historian and Associate Director of AGS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/14\/2022<\/td>\nLinda Thomas-Greenfield<\/td>\nU.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/9\/2022<\/td>\nKatherine Tai<\/td>\nUnited States Trade Representative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/1\/2022<\/td>\nRay Takeyh<\/td>\nAuthor and former Senior Advisor on Iran for the U.S. Department of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/25\/2022<\/td>\nElisabeth Leake<\/td>\nAuthor and former Fellow at the University of London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/18\/2022<\/td>\nPatricia Larsen; Mirriam Grace-McIntyre; Tricia Wellman<\/td>\nIntelligence Practitioners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/5\/2022<\/td>\nDavid French<\/td>\nPolitical commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/3\/2022<\/td>\nSusan B Glasser<\/td>\nJournalist and former Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/28\/2022<\/td>\nCarrie Filipetti<\/td>\nExecutive Director of the Vandenberg Coalition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/21\/2022<\/td>\nJoseph Torigian<\/td>\nAuthor and international relations scholar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/7\/2022<\/td>\nThomas Brzozowski<\/td>\nCounsel for Domestic Terrorism at the U.S. Department of Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/1\/2022<\/td>\nGeneral Charles Q Brown<\/td>\nChief of Staff of the Air Force<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/28\/2022<\/td>\nDavid Sanger<\/td>\nWhite House Correspondent at the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/12\/2022<\/td>\nLouis DeJoy<\/td>\nPostmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Postal Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/6\/2022<\/td>\nKevin Rudd<\/td>\nFormer Prime Minister of Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/5\/2022<\/td>\nChristopher Hancock<\/td>\nAuthor of “Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/23\/2022<\/td>\nPeter Jackson<\/td>\nProfessor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/22\/2022<\/td>\nMajor General Scott Jackson<\/td>\nCommanding General of Security Force Assistance Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/1\/2022<\/td>\nMichael McFaul<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/28\/2022<\/td>\nMichael Sfraga<\/td>\nU.S. Arctic Research Commission Chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/16\/2022<\/td>\nJean Lee<\/td>\nFormer Pyongyang Bureau Chief, Associated Press<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/15\/2022<\/td>\nPhilip Ritcheson<\/td>\nAssistant Director of National Intelligence for Mission Performance, Analysis and Collection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/10\/2022<\/td>\nMichael Abramowitz<\/td>\nPresident of Freedom House<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/8\/2022<\/td>\nTheodora Dragostinova<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of History at The Ohio State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/1\/2022<\/td>\nDavid French<\/td>\nPolitical commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/26\/2022<\/td>\nMajor General Amos Yadlin<\/td>\nFormer Major General of the Israeli Air Force<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/20\/2022<\/td>\nAlexandra Evans<\/td>\nAssociate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/18\/2021<\/td>\nVladislav M. Zubok<\/td>\nProfessor of International History at the London School of Economics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/12\/2021<\/td>\nGeneral Mark A. Milley<\/td>\nChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3\/2021<\/td>\nAmanda C. Demmer<\/td>\nAssistant Professor of History at Virginia Tech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/1\/2021<\/td>\nJane Harman<\/td>\nFormer Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/27\/2021<\/td>\nSophie Richardson<\/td>\nChina Director at Human Rights Watch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/14\/2021<\/td>\nWyndee Parker<\/td>\nNational Security Advisor to the Speaker of the House<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/12\/2021<\/td>\nJussi Hanhim\u00e4ki<\/td>\nProfessor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/29\/2021<\/td>\nAndrew Preston & Christopher Nichols<\/td>\nProfessors of History<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/23\/2021<\/td>\nNasirullah “John” Safi<\/td>\nInterpreter for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/15\/2021<\/td>\nStephen J. Hadley<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/9\/2021<\/td>\nWajahat Ali<\/td>\nWriter and leading Muslim American public intellectual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/7\/2021<\/td>\nMich\u00e8le Flournoy<\/td>\nFormer Under Secretary of Defense for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/1\/2021<\/td>\nMichael Singh<\/td>\nFormer Senior Director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/25\/2021<\/td>\nDouglas Lute<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Representative to NATO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/29\/2021<\/td>\nSue Gordon<\/td>\nFormer Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6\/14\/2021<\/td>\nGeneral Martin Dempsey<\/td>\nFormer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/7\/2021<\/td>\nBrigadier General Jerry Carter<\/td>\nCommanding Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/29\/2021<\/td>\nMois\u00e9s Na\u00edm<\/td>\nJournalist and former Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/18\/2021<\/td>\nCharles Kupchan<\/td>\nAuthor 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>\nNajat Al-Saied & Nir Boms<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nKaitlyn Johnson<\/td>\nDeputy Director & Fellow of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and
\nInternational Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/24\/2021<\/td>\nCOL Jon Harvey; COL Matt Ross; FBI Supervisory Special Agent Matt Whittemore<\/td>\nCTPP Fellows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/17\/2021<\/td>\nKim Ghattas<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Interational Peace and former BBC Journalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/15\/2021<\/td>\nJenny Arnold; Lietuenant Gia DeHart; Lieutenant Colonel Randee Farrell; Lieutenant Colonel Tina Hayes; Margalit Murray<\/td>\nSenior 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>\nBen Wittes<\/td>\nSenior 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>\nBrad Wiegmann<\/td>\nSenior Counselor, National Security Division<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/25\/2021<\/td>\nSue Gordon; Bruce Jentleson; David Schanzer<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nPhilip Zelikow<\/td>\nExecutive Director of the 9\/11 Commission and former State Department Counselor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/26\/2020<\/td>\nMohammad Darawshe<\/td>\nLeading political analyst for the Israeli press<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/19\/2020<\/td>\nMelvin Gamble<\/td>\nFormer CIA Senior Intelligence Officer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/15\/2020<\/td>\nSimon Miles<\/td>\nAssistant Professor of History at Duke University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/14\/2020<\/td>\nH.R. McMaster<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor for President Trump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/7\/2020<\/td>\nMary Elise Sarotte<\/td>\nDistinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/1\/2020<\/td>\nMichael Oren<\/td>\nFormer Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/29\/2020<\/td>\nRobert Zoellick<\/td>\nFormer Head of the World Bank and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/22\/2020<\/td>\nLaura Rosenberger<\/td>\nSenior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Serving Democracy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/17\/2020<\/td>\nThomas Schwartz<\/td>\nDistinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/14\/2020<\/td>\nFrank Hill<\/td>\nDirector of the Institute for the Public Trust<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/10\/2020<\/td>\nDaveed Gartenstein-Ross & Erroll Southers<\/td>\nLeading U.S. experts on white supremacist extremism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/3\/2020<\/td>\nKashmir Hill<\/td>\nNew York Times Technology Reporter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/1\/2020<\/td>\nJuliette Kayyem<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of
\nHomeland Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/27\/2020<\/td>\nSusan Rice<\/td>\nFormer U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/31\/2020<\/td>\nGeneral Ronald P. Clark<\/td>\nChief of Staff for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/12\/2020<\/td>\nJolynn 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>\nPaul Teller<\/td>\nDeputy Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Vice President<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/22\/2020<\/td>\nKathleen Hicks; Kelly Magsamen; Kori Schake<\/td>\nProfessionals in the national security\/foreign policy sector<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/15\/2020<\/td>\nYossi Klein Halevi<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/9\/2020<\/td>\nRobert Zoellick<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/2\/2020<\/td>\nSue Gordon<\/td>\nFormer Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/27\/2020<\/td>\nSara Vakhshouri<\/td>\nFounder and President of SVB Energy International<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/17\/2020<\/td>\nJohn Bolton<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/12\/2020<\/td>\nGary Haugen<\/td>\nFounder and CEO of International Justice Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/10\/2020<\/td>\nLiam Collins<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nRichard Fontaine<\/td>\nCEO of the Center for a New American Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/27\/2020<\/td>\nRick Barton<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/15\/2020<\/td>\nKristen Silverberg<\/td>\nExecutive Vice President for Policy at Business Roundtable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/5\/2019<\/td>\nNivruti Rai<\/td>\nVice President of Intel Foundry Services and head of Intel India<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/3\/2019<\/td>\nSamantha Power<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/26\/2019<\/td>\nSamm Sacks<\/td>\nCybersecurity Policy & China Digital Economy Fellow at New America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/25\/2019<\/td>\nPetra Goedde<\/td>\nProfessor at American University’s School of International Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/25\/2019<\/td>\nJoshua Bolten & Denis McDonough<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nRobin Kirk; Tim Nichols; David Schanzer<\/td>\nProfessor 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>\nAudrey Kurth Cronin<\/td>\nDistinguished Professor at American University’s School of International Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/28\/2019<\/td>\nTzipi Livni<\/td>\nFormer Foreign Minister of Israel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/19\/2019<\/td>\nDavid E. Sanger<\/td>\nNational Security Correspondent for the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/16\/2019<\/td>\nPeter Wehner<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/14\/2019<\/td>\nTimothy Andrews Sayle<\/td>\nAssistant Professor of History and Director of the International Relations Program at the
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/2\/2019<\/td>\nFredrik Logevall<\/td>\nLaurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/1\/2019<\/td>\nWilliam J. Burns<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/23\/2019<\/td>\nSamantha Ravich<\/td>\nDefense & intelligence policy and tech entrepreneur<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/16\/2019<\/td>\nEric Lorber<\/td>\nSenior 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>\nFarah Pandith<\/td>\nCounterterrorism and violent extremism expert<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/5\/2019<\/td>\nJim Steinberg<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/16\/2019<\/td>\nLisa Disbrow<\/td>\nFormer Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/10\/2019<\/td>\nRobert Satloff<\/td>\nDirector of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/9\/2019<\/td>\nAndrew McCabe<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Director of the FBI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/3\/2019<\/td>\nMichele Flournoy<\/td>\nFormer Under Secretary of Defense for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/20\/2019<\/td>\nMichael Morgan<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/19\/2019<\/td>\nGordon Sondland<\/td>\nAmbassador to the EU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/6\/2019<\/td>\nJohn Kelly<\/td>\nFormer White House Chief of Staff to President Trump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/28\/2019<\/td>\nMadeleine Albright<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/25\/2019<\/td>\nDeborah McCarthy; General (Ret.) Sean MacFarland; Stuart Jones<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania; retired General; Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/12\/2019<\/td>\nRick Atkinson<\/td>\nPulitzer Prize winning author and historian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/6\/2019<\/td>\nJames M. Lindsay<\/td>\nLeading authority on the American foreign policymaking process and the domestic politics of American foreign policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/31\/2019<\/td>\nJoshua Shrifrinson<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of International Relations at Boston University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/29\/2019<\/td>\nBrett McGurk<\/td>\nFormer Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/24\/2019<\/td>\nGeneral (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal<\/td>\nCommander of U.S. and Intemational Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/15\/2019<\/td>\nDan Blumenthal<\/td>\nDirector of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/14\/2019<\/td>\nLeo MacKay<\/td>\nSenior Vice President, Ethics and Enterprise Assurance at Lockheed Martin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/3\/2018<\/td>\nDavid Priess<\/td>\nWriter and speaker on the presidency, national security, and intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/28\/2018<\/td>\nArtur Mas<\/td>\nFormer President of Catalonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/5\/2018<\/td>\nGeneral Joseph F. Dunford<\/td>\nChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/22\/2018<\/td>\nPeter Singer<\/td>\nPolitical scientist specializing in international relations and modern warfare<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/15\/2018<\/td>\nStephanie O’Sullivan<\/td>\nFormer Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/2\/2018<\/td>\nMichael Wear & Farr Curlin<\/td>\nAuthor 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>\nSarah Snyder<\/td>\nHistorian of U.S. foreign relations specializing in human rights and the Cold War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/6\/2018<\/td>\nThomas Pickering<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nMichael McFaul<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Russia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5\/3\/2018<\/td>\nCondoleezza Rice & Amy Zegart<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of State; Senior Fellow at FSI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/19\/2018<\/td>\nWilliam Hitchcock<\/td>\nProfessor of History at the University of Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/12\/2018<\/td>\nScott Sagan<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science at Stanford University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/5\/2018<\/td>\nNikki Haley<\/td>\nU.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/22\/2018<\/td>\nWilliam Taubman<\/td>\nBernard Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/28\/2018<\/td>\nJendayi Frazer<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/22\/2018<\/td>\nDominick Wright<\/td>\nDeputy Director of Analysis at the Pentagon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/15\/2018<\/td>\nBrian Hook<\/td>\nSenior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State, Director of Policy Planning under Rex Tillerson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/12\/2018<\/td>\nGeneral Lori Robinson<\/td>\nCommander, U.S. NORTHCOM & NORAD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/7\/2018<\/td>\nElliot Abrams<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/30\/2018<\/td>\nJennifer Bryson & Ismail Royer<\/td>\nWriter and translator; Writer and religious sciences scholar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/24\/2018<\/td>\nGeneral (Ret.) Martin Dempsey<\/td>\nFormer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/22\/2018<\/td>\nMarc Sageman<\/td>\nFormer CIA Case Officer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/16\/2018<\/td>\nPeter Wittig<\/td>\nGerman Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/5\/2017<\/td>\nVictor Cha<\/td>\nFormer NCS Director of Asian Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/4\/2017<\/td>\nReince Priebus<\/td>\nFormer Chief of Staff to President Trump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/29\/2017<\/td>\nJohn Podesta<\/td>\nChair of Hillary for America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/28\/2017<\/td>\nJeff Engel<\/td>\nDirector of the Center for Presidential History<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/13\/2017<\/td>\nLaszlo Szabo<\/td>\nHungarian Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/20\/2017<\/td>\nAmjad Bseisu<\/td>\nEnquest CEO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/30\/2017<\/td>\nAdam Schiff<\/td>\nU.S. Representative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/19\/2017<\/td>\nPaul Teller<\/td>\nSpecial Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/12\/2017<\/td>\nOs Guinness<\/td>\nProlific writer and social critic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/4\/2017<\/td>\nMegan McArdle<\/td>\nWriter for Bloomberg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/25\/2017<\/td>\nAvril Haines<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nLisa Monaco<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Homeland Security Advisor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/13\/2017<\/td>\nGraham Allison<\/td>\nProfessor at the JFK School of Government at Harvard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/6\/2017<\/td>\nJim Carafano<\/td>\nVice President of The Heritage Foundation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/21\/2017<\/td>\nGeneral Keith Alexander<\/td>\nFormer Commander of U.S. CYBERCOM and former Director of the NSA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/7\/2017<\/td>\nJoseph S. Nye Jr.<\/td>\nFormer Dean, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/27\/2017<\/td>\nAdmiral Kurt Tidd<\/td>\nCommander of U.S. Southern Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/23\/2017<\/td>\nCharlie Hill<\/td>\nLecturer in International Studies at Yale University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/21\/2017<\/td>\nJared Cohen<\/td>\nPresident of Jigsaw<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/8\/2017<\/td>\nDavid McCormick<\/td>\nco-CEO of Bridgewater Associates and former Under Secretary of the Treasury for
\nInternational Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/24\/2017<\/td>\nKori Schake<\/td>\nResearch Fellow at the Hoover Institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/23\/2017<\/td>\nRosa Brooks<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nWill Tobey<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nChristopher Kirchhoff<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nPaul Miller<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nColin Kahl<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/3\/2016<\/td>\nPeter Wehner<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of
\nStrategic Initiaitive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/1\/2016<\/td>\nAdmiral (Ret.) James Stavridis<\/td>\nFormer NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/25\/2016<\/td>\nJim Messina & Karl Rove<\/td>\nCampaign manager for Barack Obama; Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff to
\nPresident Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/19\/2016<\/td>\nAmbassador Hahn Choonq-hee<\/td>\nDeputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/18\/2016<\/td>\nHeather Hurlburt & Robert Karem<\/td>\nForeign policy advisor to the Clinton campaign; Assistant Secretary of Defense for
\nInternational Security Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/4\/2016<\/td>\nMichael Green<\/td>\nSenior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the CSIS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/14\/2016<\/td>\nDina Powell<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/8\/2016<\/td>\nJeh C. Johnson<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of Homeland Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/15\/2016<\/td>\nGeneral (Ret.) Martin Dempsey & Denis McDonough<\/td>\nFormer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Former White House Chief of Staff to President Obama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/1\/2016<\/td>\nValerie Hudson<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science at The Bush School of Government and Public Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/31\/2016<\/td>\nLukman Faily<\/td>\nIraqi Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/23\/2016<\/td>\nTaavi Roivas<\/td>\nPrime Minister of Estonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/3\/2016<\/td>\nJon Rosenwasser<\/td>\nMinority Budget Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/3\/2016<\/td>\nMegan O’Sullivan<\/td>\nFormer Deputy National Security Adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/18\/2016<\/td>\nDeborah James & Sue Gordon<\/td>\nSecretary of the Air Force; Deputy Director of the NGA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/9\/2016<\/td>\nJonathan Fox<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science at Bar-llan University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/4\/2016<\/td>\nAmbassador Wendy Sherman<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/27\/2016<\/td>\nScooter Libby<\/td>\nFormer Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/21\/2016<\/td>\nDavid Sanger<\/td>\nChief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/19\/2015<\/td>\nTom Donilon<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor to President Obama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/12\/2015<\/td>\nRobert Jordan<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/2\/2015<\/td>\nJack Matlock & Aldona Wos<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to the USSR; Former U.S. Ambassador to Estonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/26\/2015<\/td>\nWalter Russell Mead<\/td>\nProfessor 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>\nGeneral (Ret.) John Abizaid<\/td>\nFormer Commander of U.S. CENTCOM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/30\/2015<\/td>\nMel Middleton<\/td>\nExecutive Director of Freedom Quest International<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/24\/2015<\/td>\nThomas Christensen<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/10\/2015<\/td>\nJessica Stern<\/td>\nExpert and academic scholar of terrorism studies, co -author of “ISIS: The State of Terror”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/1\/2015<\/td>\nDerek Chollet<\/td>\nformer Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/17\/2015<\/td>\nJuan Zarate<\/td>\nSenior Adviser at CSIS and former Deputy National Security Advisor on Terrorism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/10\/2015<\/td>\nStephen Brooks<\/td>\nProfessor of Government at Darmouth College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/9\/2015<\/td>\nRichard Betts<\/td>\nProfessor 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>\nMitt Romney<\/td>\nFormer Governor of Massachusetts and Republican presidential nominee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/31\/2015<\/td>\nMichael Gerson & E.J. Dionne<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nLieutenant General (Ret.) Dan Bolger<\/td>\nAuthor of “Why We Lost”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/16\/2015<\/td>\nChristine Young; Kristin Sharp; Ella Lipin<\/td>\nTeam 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>\nLieutenant General (Ret.) Michael Flynn<\/td>\nFormer Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/9\/2015<\/td>\nAdmiral Michael Rogers<\/td>\nCommander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the NSA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/6\/2015<\/td>\nJacques Hymans<\/td>\nAssociate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/27\/2015<\/td>\nJohn Nagl<\/td>\nAuthor of “Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/26\/2015<\/td>\nMichael Singh<\/td>\nFellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/22\/2015<\/td>\nWilliam Eacho<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Austria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/13\/2015<\/td>\nJake Sullivan<\/td>\nNational Security Advisor to Vice President Biden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/2\/2014<\/td>\nStephen J. Hadley<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/20\/2014<\/td>\nLisa Curtis & Jason Kirk<\/td>\nFellow at The Heritage Foundation; Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Elon University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/19\/2014<\/td>\nGeneral (Ret.) Douglas Fraser<\/td>\nCommander of U.S. Southern Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/12\/2014<\/td>\nCynthia Buckley<\/td>\nProfessor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/12\/2014<\/td>\nPeter Erben<\/td>\nSenior Global Electoral Adviser and County Director for IFES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/5\/2014<\/td>\nRobert Litwak<\/td>\nAdjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/4\/2014<\/td>\nJim Walsh<\/td>\nSenior Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of
\nTechnology’s Security Studies Program (SSP)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/29\/2014<\/td>\nDaniel Philpott<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/27\/2014<\/td>\nBruce Jentleson; Abdeslam Maghraoui; Omid Safi; David Schanzer<\/td>\nWilliam 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>\nJohn Horgan<\/td>\nDirector of the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at UMASS Lowell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/15\/2014<\/td>\nRick Atkinson<\/td>\nAuthor of “The Longest Day”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/9\/2014<\/td>\nPeter Feaver; Paul Teller<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke; Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Cruz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/25\/2014<\/td>\nColin Dueck<\/td>\nProfessor at George Mason University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/10\/2014<\/td>\nFran Townsend & Daniel Benjamin<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nMarc Trachtenberg<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science at UCLA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/21\/2014<\/td>\nDaniel Poneman<\/td>\nDeputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/11\/2014<\/td>\nGeneral Raymond Odierno<\/td>\nChief of Staff of the Army<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/31\/2014<\/td>\nWilliam Inboden<\/td>\nFormer Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/18\/2014<\/td>\nDaniel Drezner<\/td>\nProfessor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/6\/2014<\/td>\nKarl Eikenberry<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/24\/2014<\/td>\nRichard Immerman<\/td>\nAssistant 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>\nJoel Kaplan<\/td>\nFormer White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/14\/2014<\/td>\nBenjamin Miller<\/td>\nProfessor of International Relations at the University of Haifa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/6\/2014<\/td>\nDavid Adesnik<\/td>\nResearch Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/4\/2014<\/td>\nPeter Baker<\/td>\nWhite House Correspondent for The New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/30\/2014<\/td>\nSteve Biddle<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science at George Washington University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/27\/2014<\/td>\nFrancis Gavin<\/td>\nChair of Nuclear Security Policy at the University of Texas at Austin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/17\/2014<\/td>\nBritt Slabinski<\/td>\nFormer Navy SEAL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/14\/2014<\/td>\nMichael Allen<\/td>\nAuthor of “Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9\/11”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/14\/2013<\/td>\nErez Manela<\/td>\nProfessor of History at Harvard University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/11\/2013<\/td>\nMichael V. Hayden & Barton Gellman<\/td>\nFormer Director of the CIA and NSA; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/4\/2013<\/td>\nGeorge Selim<\/td>\nDirector of Community Partnerships on the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/29\/2013<\/td>\nKori Schake<\/td>\nResearch Fellow at the Hoover Institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/23\/2013<\/td>\nRobert Gallucci<\/td>\nChief U.S. negotiator during North Korean Nuclear Crisis of 1994<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/21\/2013<\/td>\nMelvyn Leffler<\/td>\nProfessor of History at the University of Virginia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/25\/2013<\/td>\nTom Nides<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/17\/2013<\/td>\nOle R. Holsti<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science at Duke University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/11\/2013<\/td>\nDavid H. Petraeus<\/td>\nFormer Director of the CIA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/28\/2013<\/td>\nFarah Pandith<\/td>\nSpecial Representative to Muslim Communities for the U.S. Department of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/4\/2013<\/td>\nAnthony Cucolo<\/td>\nFormer Army Chief of Public Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/1\/2013<\/td>\nLietuenant General (Ret.) H.R. McMaster<\/td>\nCommanding General, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/20\/2013<\/td>\nBrent Scowcroft<\/td>\nLieutenant General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/4\/2013<\/td>\nRebiya Kadeer<\/td>\nPresident of the World Uyghur Congress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/20\/2013<\/td>\nKurt Campbell<\/td>\nAssistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/12\/2013<\/td>\nSenator Richard Lugar<\/td>\nFormer Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/28\/2013<\/td>\nThomas Lehrman<\/td>\nPartner at Haystack Partners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/29\/2012<\/td>\nAshton Carter<\/td>\nDeputy Secretary of Defense<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/14\/2012<\/td>\nJohn Zogby<\/td>\nFounder of the world famous Zogby poll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/14\/2012<\/td>\nJack Goldsmith<\/td>\nAssistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/22\/2012<\/td>\nKarl Rove & Howard Dean<\/td>\nFormer 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>\nThom Shanker<\/td>\nPentagon correspondent for the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/27\/2012<\/td>\nMichele Flournoy<\/td>\nUndersecretary of Defense for Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/20\/2012<\/td>\nPeter Beinart<\/td>\nFormer editor of The New Republic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/10\/2012<\/td>\nJon Huntsman Jr.<\/td>\nFormer Governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4\/10\/2012<\/td>\nCondoleezza Rice<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/13\/2012<\/td>\nR. James Woolsey<\/td>\nFormer Director of Central Intelligence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/17\/2012<\/td>\nJohn Negroponte<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the UN, and Iraq<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/12\/2012<\/td>\nGeneral Martin Dempsey<\/td>\n18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/7\/2011<\/td>\nDan Blumenthal<\/td>\nDirector of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/14\/2011<\/td>\nJeremi Suri<\/td>\nMack Brown Distinguished Professor for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/1\/2011<\/td>\nAnne-Marie Slaughter<\/td>\nFormer Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. Department of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/26\/2011<\/td>\nDouglas Lute<\/td>\nDeputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/20\/2011<\/td>\nJanet Napolitano<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/23\/2011<\/td>\nArzu Kibris<\/td>\nAssociate Professor in Political Science and Conflict Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/8\/2011<\/td>\nJuan Zarate<\/td>\nDeputy National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/31\/2011<\/td>\nGeneral Mike Holmes<\/td>\nGeneral, Air Combatant Command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/2\/2011<\/td>\nDan Reiter<\/td>\nProfessor of Political Science at Emory University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/28\/2011<\/td>\nJames Steinberg<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/3\/2011<\/td>\nPeter Baker<\/td>\nWhite House Correspondent for The New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/25\/2011<\/td>\nCharles Kupchan<\/td>\nFormer Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/18\/2011<\/td>\nFarah Pandith<\/td>\nSpecial Representative to Muslim Communities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/17\/2011<\/td>\nAldona Wos<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to Estonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/1\/2010<\/td>\nShireen Hunter<\/td>\nVisiting Fellow at Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/27\/2010<\/td>\nBob Woodward<\/td>\nBest-selling author and Washington Post reporter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/29\/2010<\/td>\nRobert Gates<\/td>\nSecretary of Defense<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/23\/2010<\/td>\nRobert Jervis<\/td>\nProfessor of International Politics at Columbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/7\/2010<\/td>\nRichard Danzig<\/td>\nFormer Secretary of the U.S. Navy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/23\/2010<\/td>\nJoseph Nye, Jr.<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/16\/2010<\/td>\nElliott Abrams<\/td>\nFormer Deputy National Security Director<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/22\/2010<\/td>\nWilliam Burns<\/td>\nUnder Secretary of State for Political Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/11\/2010<\/td>\nMahmood Mamdani<\/td>\nProfessor at Columbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/27\/2010<\/td>\nSir Nigel Sheinwald<\/td>\nBritish Ambassador to the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/25\/2010<\/td>\nStephen Stedman<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary General of the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/9\/2009<\/td>\nFareed Zakaria<\/td>\nJournalist and political commentator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/6\/2009<\/td>\nKurt Campbell<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/29\/2009<\/td>\nMeghan O’Sullivan<\/td>\nFormer Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/27\/2009<\/td>\nDouglas Faith<\/td>\nFormer Undersecretary of Defense<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/1\/2009<\/td>\nJohn Bolton<\/td>\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to the UN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/20\/2009<\/td>\nH.R. McMaster<\/td>\nBrigadier General, TRADOC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/10\/2009<\/td>\nJohn Hillen<\/td>\nFormer Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Non-Partisan Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/26\/2009<\/td>\nStephen J. Hadley<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor to President Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/5\/2009<\/td>\nPaul Kennedy<\/td>\nGrand Strategy historian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/2\/2009<\/td>\nJohn Gaddis<\/td>\nCold War historian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/14\/2009<\/td>\nBruce Bueno de Mesquita & Michael Doran<\/td>\nSenior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/13\/2008<\/td>\nJuan Zarate<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for
\ncombating terrorism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/7\/2008<\/td>\nJeremy Black<\/td>\nHistorian and professor of history at the University of Exeter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/23\/2008<\/td>\nDavid E. Sanger<\/td>\nChief Washington Correspondent at the New York Times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/7\/2008<\/td>\nDerek Chollet<\/td>\nFormer Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/1\/2008<\/td>\nPeter Wehner<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House
\nOffice of Strategic Initiative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/26\/2008<\/td>\nStephen J. Hadley<\/td>\nFormer National Security Advisor to President Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/5\/2008<\/td>\nPaul Kennedy<\/td>\nHistorian and news writer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/26\/2008<\/td>\nJohn Gaddis<\/td>\nProfessor of Non-Partisan and Naval History at Yale University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/3\/2007<\/td>\nKarl Rove<\/td>\nFormer Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date Speaker(s) Speaker Role(s) 3\/4\/2025 Evan Bloom Global Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute 2\/27\/2025 Dafna Hochman Rand Former Assistant Secretary of State for…<\/p>\n