Guest Speakers

• President Barack Obama

  Former President of the United States

• Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

  United States Senator, New York

• Laura Lane

  President, Global Public Affairs, UPS; former U.S. Embassy official, Kigali, Rwanda

• L. Michael Seidman

  Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center

• Justice Clarence Thomas

  Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

• Mike McCurry

  Former White House Press Secretary; Co-Chair, Commission on Presidential Debates

• General Stanley McChrystal

  Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A)

• Amb. Dan Mozena

  Senior Coordinator for Boko Haram, United States State Department

• Josh Bolten

  White House Chief of Staff to President George W Bush

• Eric Schmitt

  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The New York Times

• Amb. Mamady Condé

  Guinean Ambassador to the United States

• Megan Rooney

  Speechwriter, Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama

• His Highness Reza Pahlavi

  Former Crown Prince of Iran

• Amb. Mark Dybul

  Former United States Global AIDS Coordinator

• Amb. Daniel Fried

  Special Envoy for Closure of the Guantanamo Detainee Facility

• Lissa Muscatine

  Senior Adviser and Chief of Speechwriting, US State Department

• Derek Mitchell

  U.S. Special Envoy to Burma

• Carl Wilkens

  Former Director, ADRA in Rwanda (1993-4); Medal of Valor, Simon Wiesenthal Center

• Laren Poole

  Co-Founder/Filmmaker, Invisible Children

• Sonal Shah

  Director, White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation

• Kevin Jennings

  Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools

• John Lewis (D-GA)

  United States Representative, Georgia; Civil Rights Leader

• Tom Coburn (R-OK)

  United States Senator, Oklahoma

• David Crane

  Professor, Syracuse University College of Law; Former Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone

• Elizabeth Anderson

  Executive Director, American Society for International Law

• Todd Stern

  U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change

• Fabian Koss

  Youth Liaison in Special Programs, Office of External Relations of the Inter-American Development Bank

• Tom Adkins

  Social Entrepreneur, Founder, and Principal, Open Organize

• Ghaith Al-Omari

  Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute; Executive Director, American Task Force in Palestine (ATFP); former Palestinian negotiator

• Robert Satloff

  Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)

• Amb. Melanne Verveer

  US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

• Kurt Campbell

  Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

• L. Gordon Flake

  Executive Director, Mansfield Foundation

• Scott Snyder

  Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

• Sheryl WuDunn

  Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist

• Abdul Aziz Said

  Mohammed Said Farsi Professor of Islamic Peace, American University

• Stephane Rosenberg

  Health Attache, Embassy of Haiti

• Peter Reid

  Vice President for Communications, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Ian Rainey

  Office of the Secretary of Defense, Policy, Afghanistan Desk

• Tom Perriello (D-VA)

  United States House of Representatives

• Dr. Joseph Newhouse

  Director, PhD in Health Policy, Harvard University

• Jane Marriott

  Senior Advisor, Office of the Senior Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Egil “Bud” Krogh

  Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Senior Fellow and Chair on Leadership, Ethics, and Integrity

• Jeffery Kimbell

  Healthcare Industry Lobbyist

• Steve Killelea

  Founder, Global Peace Index

• Jocelyn Lippert

  Legislative Assistant on Health Care Policy, US House of Representatives

• Lt. Col. Chris Ireland

  USAF, Joint Staff Pakistan and Afghanistan Coordination Cell

• Dereck Hogan

  Senior Advisor, Office of the Senior Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Jeff Helsing

  Deputy Director of Education, United States Institute for Peace

• Bailey Hand

  Special Assistant/Acting Chief of Staff, U.S. Secretary of Defense

• Justin Goforth

  Director, Medical Adherence Unit and STD Services, Whitman-Walker Clinic

• Andrew Exum

  Fellow, Center for a New American Security

• Lt. Col. Anthony DeMartino

  USA, Joint Staff Pakistan and Afghanistan Coordination Cell

• Will Davis

  Director, United Nations Information Center

• Marco Davis

  Director of Global Fellowships, Ashoka Youth Venture

• Zoey Cooprider

  Program Manager at Global Peace Index and Alliance for Peacebuilding

• Sasha Chanoff

  Founder and Director, M’pendo International

• Sarah Beller

  Director of Education, J-Street

• Frank Anderson

  President, Middle East Policy Council

• Olexander Aleksandrovich

  Minister-Counselor, Embassy of Ukraine

• David Abshire

  President, Center for the Study of the Presidency

• Rebecca Abou-Chedid

  Former Director of Outreach, Arab-American Institute