Guest Speakers

• John Brennan

  Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency

• Tucker Carlson

  Host of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News

• Abby Phillip

  White House Correspondent, CNN

• Elodie Shami

  Education Officer, Embassy of Rwanda to the U.S.

• Lawrence Manzi

  First Counselor, Embassy of Rwanda to the U.S.

• George Moose

  Former Asst. Secretary of State, African Affairs

• Elad Strohmayer

  Spokesperson of the Embassy of Israel to the United States

• Hon. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)

  United States Senator, New York

• Hon. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

  United States Representative, Maryland

• Hon. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

  United States Representative, New York

• Wendy Edelberg

  Associate Director for Economic Analysis, Congressional Budget Office

• Brandi Colander

  Former Deputy General Counsel, White House Council on Environmental Quality

• Trigg Talley

  Director of the Office of Global Change, U.S. Department of State

• Khary Cauthen

  Former Special Assistant to the Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality

• Mary Neumayr

  Chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality

• David Ettinger

  Research Librarian, The George Washington University

• Joe Weinstein

  Senior Partner, Global Social Enterprise Initiative

• Fernando Cutz

  Former Director for South America, National Security Council

• Cpt. Mark Bedrin

  Legislative Liaison, U.S. Army

• Lt. Col. Daniel Coe

  Chief of the Conventional Arms Control Branch, Pentagon

• President Barack Obama

  Former President of the United States

• Hon. 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

• Kevin Jennings

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

• Hon. John Lewis (D-GA)

  United States Representative, Georgia; Civil Rights Leader

• Hon. Tom Coburn (R-OK)

  United States Senator, Oklahoma

• 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

• Amb. Melanne Verveer

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

• Kurt Campbell

  Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

• Sheryl WuDunn

  Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist

• Abdul Aziz Said

  Mohammed Said Farsi Professor of Islamic Peace, American University

• Hon. Tom Perriello (D-VA)

  United States House of Representatives

• Dr. Joseph Newhouse

  Director, PhD in Health Policy, Harvard University

• Egil “Bud” Krogh

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

• Steve Killelea

  Founder, Global Peace Index

• 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

• Sasha Chanoff

  Founder and Director, M’pendo International

• Frank Anderson

  President, Middle East Policy Council

• David Abshire

  President, Center for the Study of the Presidency