List of Previous Speakers since 1992

General (Retired) Kenneth MCKENZIE Jr.

Former commander of U.S. Central Command
“U.S. National Security in the 21^st Century”
September 26, 2023

Dr. Charles EDEL

Senior Adviser and inaugural Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
“The AUKUS Wager: Australia, the United States, and the Transformation of the Indo-Pacific Order”
October 10, 2023

Dr. Tanvi Madan

Director, The India Project
Foreign Policy Fellow, The Brookings Institution
“Balancing Act: India’s Ties with China and the United States”
November 7, 2023

Dr. James Zogby

James Zogby co-founded, in 1985, the Arab American Institute
“The Israeli-Palestinian War in Gaza : No Lessons Learned”
December 21, 2023

Dr. Michael Rubin

Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East.
“Iran’s Coming Transition: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong, and What it Means for the United States and the Region”
January 10, 2024

Dr. Bruce Jones

Dr. Bruce Jones is a senior fellow with the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. He also works with the Center for East Asia Policy Studies.
“The Coming Clash at Sea: Naval Power and Sea-based Globalization in an Era of Geopolitical Contest”
February 13, 2024

Thomas Shanker

Thom Shanker is the director of the Project for Media and National Security at George Washington University.
“Our New Age of Danger”
March 12, 2024

Peter Mattis

Mr. Mattis is President of the Jamestown Foundation.
“Chinese Power and Purpose under Xi Jinping”
April 10, 2024

Allison Quatrini

Allison Quatrini is an associate professor of Political Science at Eckerd College, specialized in China and East Asia
May 16, 2024

AMBASSADOR ERIC RUBIN

Former US Ambassador to Bulgaria,
prior service as Security Affairs Officer in the Central and Eastern Europe Desk in the Bureau of Soviet Union Affairs;
Deputy Political Counselor Ukraine;
President American Foreign Service Association
September 15, 2022

GENERAL JAMES CARTWRIGHT USMC (Ret.)

GUEST NIGHT
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Former Commander, U.S. Strategic Command
October 12, 2022

JAMIL MAHUAD

Holiday Guest Night
Former President of Ecuador
Visiting Faculty Harvard Kennedy School
“New wine in old wine skins ?
Framing Latin America’s dilemmas today”
December 8, 2022

IAN EASTON

Senior director at the Project 2049 Institute
“If Taiwan Falls : Conflict Scenarios and Implications for America”.
January 14, 2023

MICHAEL KIMMAGE

Professor of history and department chair at the Catholic University of America. Fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
” The Four Origins of the War in Ukraine”
February 16, 2023

The Honorable HENRIETTA HOLSMAN FORE

Former Executive director of UNICEF
First woman Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance
Under Secretary of Management in the Department of State
Director of the United States Mint in the U.S. Department of Treasury
“Advocating for Humanity: Henrietta Fore”
March 14, 2023

MARK V. VLASIC

Mr. Vlasic is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University and leads the international practice at Madison Law & Strategy Group; Legal Advisor, Clooney Foundation for Justice.
“My Employees are Held Hostage: Next Steps when the KGB Seizes your Property“
April 20, 2023

ALI WYNE

Mr. Wyne is a senior analyst with Eurasia Group’s Global Macro-Geopolitics practice, focusing on US-China relations and great-power competition.
“Rightsizing China’s Challenge to the United States : Why Beijing Is a Formidable But Self-Limiting Competitor“
May 24, 2023

Dr. MOHSEN MILANI

Founding Director of the Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies at the University of South Florida.
“The Response of Russia, China and Iran to the Taliban’s Rise”
September 15, 2021

MARC POLYMEROPOULOS

Formerly of the Senior Intelligence Service ranks of the CIA
“Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA”
October 12, 2021

ANNIE PFORZHEIMER

Non-resident Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
and former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Afghanistan
“Afghanistan: Where Are We Going?”
November 16, 2021

AMBASSADOR PAUL WOLFOWITZ

Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
“Perspective on current and future U.S.-China relations.”
December 7, 2021

KATYA RIMKUNAS

Regional Deputy Director, Latin America and
The Caribbean, IRI—International Republican Institute
“The Challenges Driving the Migration Crisis”
January 26, 2022

RICHARD FONTAINE

Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (“CNAS”)
“U.S. – Russia Relations and the Crisis Over Ukraine”
February 9, 2022

DANIELE PLETKA

Distinguished Senior Fellow in foreign and defense policy studies
at the American Enterprise Institute (“AEI”)
“Back to the Future: The Iran Problem. And Again.”
March 3, 2022

AMBASSADOR RYAN CROCKER

Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“The Middle East and the New World Disorder.”
April 7, 2022

Dr. DOUGLAS JONES

Director of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville
“Pollinators, Pythons, and People: Addressing Global Issues.”
April 26, 2022

FRANCISCO J. SÁNCHEZ

Former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Trade under President Barack Obama
“U.S. Trade Policy in 2021: What to Expect under Trump or Biden”
September 30, 2020

ADAM ALBION

Director of South East Asia Leadership Academy
“Central Asia Between China and Russia: Is the US Going to Play a Role?”
October 28, 2020

CHRISTOPHER HUNTER

Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council
“The Rule of Law, Democracy, and Freedom: Assessing the Future of America’s Most Valuable Exports.”
November 19, 2020

ADMIRAL (Retired) ERIC T. OLSON

Former Commander – US Special Operations Command
“Ongoing and Emerging Threats: The View From Militaries Around The World.”
December 11, 2020

DAVID T. DUMKE

Executive Director, Office of Global Perspectives & International Initiatives – University of Central Florida
“Resetting Strategic Relations: U.S., Egypt, and the Middle East”
January 12, 2021

BRYAN STERN

President of John Paul Jones Consulting International LLC and Senior Intelligence Professional.
“Foreign Policy and Security Challenges Facing the New Administration”
February 23, 2021

THOMAS CRISMAN, PH.D.

U.S. Dept of State – Jefferson Science Fellow; School of Geosciences, University of South Florida
“Water Security as a Focal Point for U.S. Foreign Policy”
March 10, 2021

CHARLIE CRIST

United States Congressman
Discussed an overview related to his service on the Appropriations Committee, including the subcommittee on Defense and the Science Committee which oversees NASA and space and climate change policy.
April 7, 2021

ANDREW NAGORSKI

Author and Journalist
“What Today’s Leaders Can Learn from Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin”
September 17, 2019

DR. JAMES J. ZOGBY

President of the Arab American Institute
“Update on Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula”
October 23, 2019

FARAH PANDITH

Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations
“A Grassroots Approach to Countering Violent Extremism”
November 19, 2019

AMBASSADOR STUART E. EIZENSTAT

Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to President Carter
“President Carter: The White House Years”
December 3, 2019

WILLIAM BURKE-WHITE

Richard Perry Professor, Professor of Law, and Inaugural Director of Perry World
house at the University of Pennsylvania
“Five Forces Shaping the Future of America’s Role in the World”
January 21, 2020

MARC POLYMEROPOULOS

Former Senior Agent of Acting Director of The Central Intelligence Agency
“The Indispensable Institution: The CIA in the 21st Century”
February 12, 2020

[March, April, May 2020 cancelled – COVID]

DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN

Executive Editor of Foreign Affairs
“Pivotal Cold War Misunderstanding Between China and the United States and How Those Lessons Are
Urgently Relevant Today”
September 20, 2018

ROBERT W. COURTNEY

“Twenty Years in Moscow: An American Business Leader’s Perspective on Current US-Russian Relations.”
October 4, 2018

SCOTT A. SNYDER

Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea
policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
“From ‘Fire and Fury’ to the Singapore Summit: Prospects for Peacefully Managing
the North Korean Nuclear Threat.”
November 1, 2018

EARL ANTHONY WAYNE

Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
“Analysis of a Series of Issues Important to U.S. – Mexican Relations.
December 6, 2018

TOM NAGORSKI

Executive V.P., Asia Society
“The Nature of the US-China Relationship and the Global Turbulence Surrounding It”
January 23, 2019

OMAR SAMAD

Former Afghan Ambassador to France and Canada
“The Afghanistan War in Transition: New Great Game or End-Game?”
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

BOB TIPPEE

Editor of the Oil & Gas Journal
“Shifting Sands: Energy and Geopolitics in the Middle East.”
March 14, 2019

VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA

Russian opposition leader and human rights activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice Chairman of the Open Russia
Movement and Chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom.
April 4, 2019

STEVEN A. COOK

Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
“Current Developments in Turkey – Surprise Election Results”
May 2, 2019

JOHN AND PAM KNOX

John Knox Sandy Beaver Professor of Geography and Undergraduate Coordinator of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia,
Pam Knox an Agricultural Climatologist for the Crop and Soil Sciences Department in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia since 2012.
“Thin Ice: The Effect of Climate Change on Foreign Policy and National Security”
September 26, 2017

PROFESSOR EYTAN GILBOA, PH.D.

Chair of the Israel Communication Association, the academic and professional organization of scholars serving in departments and schools of communication in all Israeli institutions of higher education.
“The Future of Syria: An Israeli Perspective”
October 25, 2017

GRANT RUMLEY

Research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (“FDD”)
“Who Replaces Mahmoud Abbas? The Future of Palestinian Politics”.
November 8, 2017

AMBASSADOR CHRISTOPHER HILL

Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at The University of Denver
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
December 7, 2017,

PAUL B. STARES, PH.D.

“Preventive Engagement: How America Can Avoid War, Stay Strong, and Keep the Peace”
January 30, 2018

AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER

Former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Egypt, the Philippines and India
“The United States and Iran: Challenges Ahead”
March 6, 2018

AMBASSADOR JOHN BEYRLE

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
“Russia: Preparing for the Post-Putin Era”
April 3, 2018

GENERAL NORTON A. SCHWARTZ USAF (Ret)

“Nuclear Deterrence and the Emerging Cyber Battlefield”
May 2, 2018

AMBASSADOR JOHN E. HERBST

Director, Dinu Patricia Eurasia Center
Atlantic Council
September 26, 2016

RADM JOHN KIRBY

Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Department Spokesman
“My Life as a Government Spokesperson”
October 18, 2016

URBAN AHLIN

Speaker and Chair of the Riksdag Board in Sweden
Impact of BREXIT and the European Migrant Situation
November 3, 2016

MARTIN “MARTY” BARON

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Executive Editor of The Washington Post
December 14, 2016

DANIEL BENAIM

Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
“The Trump Administration and the Middle East”
January 12, 2017

DR. MUDHAFAR A. AMIN

Iraqi Ambassador to London, 1999 to 2003
“Iraq: A View from the Inside”
February 22, 2017

MICHAEL FUCHS

Senior Fellow at American Progress
March 28, 2017

MARK LYNCH

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University
“The Trump Administration and Islamist Movements”
April 13, 2017

U.S. SENATOR BILL NELSON

“Current National Security and Foreign Policy
Opportunities and Challenges”
May 26, 2017

GAYLE LEMON

Senior Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations
Author, “Ashley’s War”
September 30, 2015

WILLIAM HILL and MICHAEL KOFMAN

Kennan Institute, Wilson Center
A “Kennan Conversation on Russia, Iran, and the Ukraine”
October 15, 2015

KAREN DEYOUNG

Pulitzer Prize winning Senior National Security Correspondent and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
“The Impact of the New Digital Media on Foreign Policy Considerations”
November 19, 2015

AMBASSADOR ROBERT JORDAN

U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2001-2003)
December 2, 2015

GREGORY MANIATIS

Senior European Policy Fellow – The Migration Policy Institute
“Europe’s Migration Crisis and Why It Matters for Americans”
January 13, 2016

MOLLY WILLIAMSON

Scholar for the Middle East Institute
Senior Foreign Policy Advisor
“At the Intersection of the Three E’s; Energy, Environment, Econony”
February 4, 2016

AMBASSADOR ERIC BOSWELL

Director of the Office of Foreign Missions
“Conducting U.S. Diplomacy in a Dangerous World”
March 9, 2016

BRIGADIER GENERAL PETER GALLAGHER

Director of Command and Control, Communications and Computer Systems
United States Central Command
“Cybersecurity in the Middle East”
April 13, 2016

AMBASSADOR FRANCIS RICCIARDONE

United States Ambassador to Turkey (2011-2014)
“No Easy Answers: Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S. in the Middle East”
May 24, 2016

DR. GAL LUFT

Co-Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
“The Collapse of America’s Energy Security Paradigm”
September 10, 2014

FRED FLEITZ

Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy
“Appropriate Measures for Containing the Islamic State”
October 29, 2014

LT. GENERAL CLAUDIA KENNEDY, USA (Retired)

LT. GENERAL DONALD KERRICK, USA (Retired)

“Climate Change: Risks for National Security”
November 18, 2014

PROFESSOR DEREK HARVEY

Director, Global Initiative for Civil Society and Conflict, University of South Florida
December 3, 2014

HENRY R. NAU

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, U.S-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange
Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
“Is America Going Isolationist Once Again?”
January 22, 2015

DEAN CHENG

Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, The Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at
The Heritage Foundation
“China and North Korea, the Odd Couple”
February 19, 2015

AMBASSADOR MOHAMMED JAHAM AL KUWARI

Embassy of the State of Qatar
Washington, DC
March 30, 2015

AMBASSADOR JOHN BEYRLE

Board Director, U.S. Russia Foundation and former United States Ambassador to Russia
April 29, 2015

J. PETER PHAM

Director, Atlantic Council’s Africa Center
“U.S. Policy and the New Africa”
May 14, 2015

JAMES CLAD

Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University
Geopolitics of Energy
September 20, 2013

HENRY ‘HANK’ LEVINE

Senior Director of Albright Stonebridge Group
“A Rising China Meets the U.S. and the World”
October 17, 2013

DR. ADAM GARFINKLE

Editor-in-Chief of The American Interest
“The Strange Death of the American Grand Strategy”
November 14, 2013

AMBASSADOR CHRISTOPHER R. HILL

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April 2009-August 2010;
Senior Director at Albright Stonebridge Group;
and Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, Denver University
December 6, 2013

RICHARD L. RUSSELL, PH.D.

Professor of National Security Affairs, National Defense University’s Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and Special Advisor to the U.S. Central Command
“The Obama Administration: Pivoting Out of the Middle East and into Asia?”
January 16, 2014

ABDULWAHAB ALKEBSI

Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
February 6, 2014

BRIGADIER GENERAL MARTINS

U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions, overseeing the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four co-defendants
March 12, 2014

TANVI MADAN, PH.D.

Fellow, Foreign Policy program, Brookings Institution, and Director of the India Project
April 9, 2014

AMBASSADOR HUSAIN HAQQANI

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States
2008-2011
May 20, 2014

PETER FISCHER

Minister and Head of Economic Affairs
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Washington, D.C.
“The German Policy on the Euro”
September 2012

ERIC T. OLSON

Admiral, United States Navy (Ret.)
“Evolving Strategy”
November 1, 2012

KIMBERLY DOZIER

Intelligence & Security Correspondent
Associated Press, Washington, D.C.
“Running the Covert War in the Age of Transparency — Challenges for the New Administration”
November 12, 2012

JAMES R. SASSER

United States Senator and Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
December 7, 2012

KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, former Publisher of the Wall Street Journal
“Saudi Arabia: Its Fault Lines and Future”
January 17, 2013

Dr. HANS-PETER MANZ

Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the United States
“Globalization and International Cooperation”
February 26, 2013

JOHN RIZZO

Career Legal Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency 1976 through 2009
“Being CIA’s Lawyer in the Post-9/11 Era: Challenges Faced and Lessons Learned”
March 14, 2013

VICKI HUDDLESTON

Former United States Ambassador to Mali
“Crisis in the Sahara: Al Qaida Strikes Back”
April 3, 2013

LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN F. MULHOLLAND, JR.

Deputy Commander of United States Special Operations Command
May 21, 2013

KATHERINE GREEN

Senior V.P. of Programming
CNN International
“The Impact of Social Media on Journalism and Foreign Affairs”
September 2011

RUFUS PHILLIPS

Author, Case Officer – Central Intelligence Agency
“Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned”
October 2011

SAMUEL Y. TADROS

Senior Partner, Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth
“Understanding Egyptian Politics Today”
November 2011

THE HONORABLE THOMAS D. BOYATT

American Ambassador and Distinguished Diplomat
“Rebuilding Diplomatic Capacity: What Will it Cost?”
December 2011

ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER

Authors & Senior New York Times Correspondents
“Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda”
January/February 2012

Dr. MOHSEN M. MILANI

Professor of Politics, University of South Florida
“The Syrian Crisis and Role of the Regional Players: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Saudi Arabia”
March 2012

AMY PATRICIA CELICO

Senior Vice President – Albright Stonebridge Group
“China’s Economic Power as an Instrument of Foreign Policy”
April 2012

JOHN R. SCHMIDT

Lecturer – George Washington University
U.S. Foreign Service
“The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad”
May 2012

ANN LOUISE BARDACH

Author, Reporter, Journalist
“With or Without Fidel”
September 2010

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS AMBASSADOR TURKI AL FAISAL AL SA’UD

Former Ambassador of Saudi Arabia
To the United States
“U.S. – Saudi Relations”
October 2010

Dr. CYNTHIA WATSON

Professor of Strategy, The National War College
“China’s Growing Influence in Latin America and around the World”
November 2010

THE HONORABLE JOHN W. LIMBERT

American Ambassador and Distinguished Professor
U.S. Naval Academy
“U.S.-Iranian Relations”
December 2010

Dr. PAUL MARSHALL

Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute
“Silenced: How Freedom is Threatened by New Restrictions on Blasphemy”
January 2011

IMAM MUHAMMAD MUSRI

President of the Islamic Society of Central Florida,
Pastor – Masjid Al-Rahman
“The Role of Moderate Muslims after 9/11”
February 2011

GORDON G. CHANG

Renowned authority on Asian affairs, Author
“The Coming Collapse of China”
March 2011

DR. SATU PRAKASH LIMAYE

Director, East-West Center, Washington, D.C.
“The Emergence of India as a World Power”
April 2011

GENERAL JAMES N. MATTIS

Commander, U.S. Central Command
Biennial Briefing at MacDill Air Force Base
May 2011

Dr. MOHSEN MILANI

Professor of Politics
University of South Florida
“Tehran’s Take: Understanding Iran’s U.S. Policy”
September 2009

AMBASSADOR ULRIC HAYNES

Former American Ambassador to Algeria
“Background for a New American Policy in the Middle East”
October 2009

Dr. ALAN ZELICOFF

Consultant, Public Health Medical-Legal Review
“Infectious diseases respect no borders:
International Pandemic Planning for H1N1, SARS, Tuberculosis and lots of other
diseases we don’t even know about yet”
November 2009

AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN PROSL

Ambassador of Austria to the United States
“Security Policy and Transatlantic Relations”
December 2009

PROFESSOR SEYMOUR GOODMAN

Professor of International Affairs and Computing
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs / College of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology
“The Global Penetration of Mobile Telephony and the Coming Tsunami
of Information Insecurity”
January 2010

Dr. DAVID ABSHIRE

President and Chief Executive Officer
Center for the Study of the Presidency
“Meeting the Challenge of al-Qaeda: NATO/Afghanistan/Pakistan”
February 2010

AMBASSADOR JAN MATTHYSEN

Ambassador of Belgium to the United States
“Policy Challenges for Europe”
March 2010

Mr. DEXTER FILKINS

2006-2007 Nieman Fellow, Harvard University,
Former Baghdad Correspondent for The New York Times
“Stories from Afghanistan”
April 2010

Dr. VANDA FELBAB-BROWN

Foreign Policy Fellow, Brookings Institution
“Shooting Up: Narcoterrorism from Latin America to Asia”
May 2010

 AMBASSADOR VICKI HUDDLESTON

Former U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar and Mali;
and Chief of Mission in Havana from 1999 – 2002
“US – African Security: A New Approach
for A New Administration”
September 2008

PETER ARMACOST

President Emeritus, Eckerd College and
President, Forman Christian College (Lahore)
“Pakistan: A Firsthand Report on Education in an Islamic Republic”
October 2008

E. WAYNE MERRY

Senior Associate, American Foreign Policy Council
“Where Is Russia Going, Anyway? And What Are the Prospects That It Will Arrive?”
November 2008

JAMES GOLDGEIER

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of Political Science, George Washington University
“America Between the Wars:
The misunderstood decade between the end
of the Cold War and the start of the War”
December 2008

ADAM S. POSEN

Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for
International Economics
“Responding to the Global Financial Crisis”
January 2009

ERIC P. FARNSWORTH

Vice President, Council of the Americas
“Prospects for Policy in the Americas:
Si Podermos”
February 2009

KANI XULAM

Director, American Kurdish Information Network
“Kurdistan: What Happens When Your
Oppressors Are Next Door Neighbors”
March 2009

JOHN REPPERT

Brig. Gen. USA (Ret.);
Dean, George C. Marshall Center,
Garmisch, Germany; Defense Attaché,
U.S. Embassy, Moscow
“The Arc of Instability: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan”
April 2009

ADMIRAL ERIC T. OLSON

Commander, United States Special Operations Command
“US Special Operations: A Global Survey of Crisis and Response”
May 2009

PROFESSOR ALAN LEE WILLIAMS

Former British Labour MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the UK Secretary of Defense
“U.S.-European Security Issues”
September 2007

Dr. ARTHUR ALEXANDER

Former President of the Japanese
Economic Institute (JEI)
“Japan’s Economic Rebirth: Prospects for Power in the Pacific Rim and Beyond”
October 2007

COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON, USA (Ret.)

Secretary of State Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff
“An Open Letter to the New President:
Six Changes to US Foreign Policy”
November 2007

FORMER U.S. SENATOR BOB GRAHAM

“Post 9/11 Intelligence Challenges and the Dangers Confronting the Next President”
December 2007

AMBASSADOR ANTHONY C.E. QUAINTON

Distinguished Diplomat in Residence,
American University
“Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Diplomacy”
January 2008

Dr. ROBERT D. LANGENKAMP

Director, National Energy-Environmental Law and Policy Institute
“Oil: Questions Not Being Addressed by Our Presidential Candidates”
February 2008

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD

Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in
U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
“God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World”
March 2008

GERALD ROBBINS

Associate Scholar at the
Foreign Policy Research Institute
“Turkey and the EU: Redefining Turkey’s Strategic Importance”
April 2008

MELVIN GOODMAN

Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy and
Adjunct Professor of Government, John Hopkins University – former Division Chief and Senior Analyst Office of Soviet Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
“America’s Russian Problem”
May 2008

WALTER L. CUTLER

former United States Ambassador
to Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Zaire
President of the Meridian International Center
“America and Saudi Arabia: Facing New Realities”
September, 2006

H.E. PROFESSOR GEORGE OBIOZOR

Nigerian Ambassador to the United States
“Nigerian-U.S. Relations”
October, 2006

DAVID M. LAMPTON

Dean of Faculty and Director of the
China Studies Program at John Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies
“China’s Growing Power and
What It Means for the World”
November, 2006

“Views from the Front:

A Panel Discussion by Senior Leaders of the Coalition Forces”
December 2006

STEPHEN E. FLYNN, Ph.D.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
“The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation”
January 2007

DEXTER FILKINS

New York Times correspondent
in Afghanistan and Iraq.
From the rubble at Ground Zero to the Green Zone,
Filkins has personally experienced the entire arc of terrorism since 9/11.
February 2007

MAX BOOT

Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
at the Council on Foreign Relations
Award-winning author and former Editorial Editor for the Wall Street Journal
“War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the
Course of History, 1500 to Today”
March 2007

AMBASSADOR VICKI HUDDLESTON

former U.S. Ambassador to various posts,
including Chief of Mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana from 1999 – 2002
“Memories of Fidel – U.S. Policy in Post-Fidel Cuba”
April 2007

ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON

Commander, U.S. Central Command
Biennial Briefing at MacDill Air Force Base
May 2007

AMBASSADOR ROBERT E. HUNTER

Senior Advisor at RAND, Washington, D.C.
“NATO: Back in Business for the 21st Century”
September 2005

CRAIG W. DUEHRING, Principal Deputy

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserves)
“Building and Sustaining a Viable Reserve Force”
October 2005

HIS EXCELLENCY CHRISTIAN BLICKENSTORFER

Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
“Switzerland Between Two Worlds”
November 2005

AMBASSADOR CRESENCIO ARCOS

Director, International Affairs
Department of Homeland Security
“Homeland Security: The International Dimension”
December 2005

AMBASSADOR MEL SEMBLER

former U.S. Ambassador to Italy and Australia
“George W. Bush As I Know Him and Why We are Winning the War on Terrorism”
January 2006

RAYMOND BAKER

guest scholar at the Brookings Institution
and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy
“Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System”
March 1, 2006

DONNA OGLESBY

former ranking Diplomat at USIA
and Diplomat in Residence, Eckerd College
“Public Diplomacy: Politics, Propaganda, or Publicity?”
March 21, 2006

BRIAN LATELL

Senior Associate in the CSIS Americas Program and former adjunct professor at the
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
“After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader”
April 2006

GORDON G. CHANG

Renowned authority on Asian affairs
“Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World”
May 2006

Dr. ROBERT H. DONALDSON

President of the University of Tulsa
“Putin’s Russia: Emerging Democracy or Creeping Dictatorship?”
September 2004

AMBASSADOR DONALD GREGG

Chairman, Board of the Korea Society
“Facing the Korean Challenges”
October 2004

GEOFFREY SMITH

British journalist and Adjunct Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute
“Transatlantic Relations – Did the Elections Matter”
November 2004

COLONEL (GS) WOLFGANG E. HERBST (GERMANY)

BRIGADIER GENERAL TARIQ KHAN (PAKISTAN)

BRIGADIER GENERAL JAN WANG (NORWAY)

“Views from the Front: A Panel Discussion by Senior Members of the Coalition forces”
December 2004

H.E. BARON FRANS VAN DAELE

Ambassador of Belgium
“Perspective on Future European Integration”
January 2005

PROFESSOR PAUL BRACKEN

Yale University
“U.S. Foreign Policy: Challenges and Opportunities”
February 2005

CHARLAYNNE HUNTER-GAULT

CNN Johannesburg Bureau Chief
“Africa on the Edge”
February 2005

Dr. PHILIP OLDENBURG

Columbia University
DR. VEENA OLDENBURG
City University of New York
“How Important can India Be in the 21st Century”
March 2005

GENERAL BRYAN BROWN, USA

Commander, United States Special Operations Command
MacDill Air Force Base
Biennial Briefing
April 2005

ROGER KUBARYCH

Senior Fellow, International Economics and Finance, Council on Foreign Relations
“Going to Extremes – How Record Imbalances
Are Being Financed And What That Means
for the US Economy and Foreign Policy”
May 2005

SOL SANDERS

Political Analyst
“The North Korean Conundrum”
September 2003

MYLES FRECHETTE

Former U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Americas Society and Council of the Americas
“Colombia, a Multilateral Struggle”
October 2003

DENNIS JETT

Dean of the International Center
at the University of Florida
Former U.S. Ambassador to Peru and Mozambique
Former Deputy Chief of Mission in Liberia
“The Incoherence of U.S. Foreign Policy and Why It Will Stay That Way”
November 2003

ROBERT REILLY

Senior Advisor for Information Strategy,
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Information – Operation Iraqi Freedom
“Lessons from Baghdad”
December 2003

MARTIN BARON

Editor, Boston Globe
“Journalists and the War on Terror”
January 2004

KEVIN SCHEID

Senior Advisor to the National Commission
on the Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the “9/11 Commission”)
“The Evolving Role of US Intelligence: From the Shadows to Talk TV”
February 2004

DR. STEPHEN FLYNN

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies Council on Foreign Relations
“Living on Borrowed Time: The Race to Secure America”
March 2004

BRIGADIER GENERAL BORIS O. SAAVEDRA

Venezuelan Air Force
“Cuba-Venezuela-Brazil: An Anti-American Axis in Latin America?”
April 2004

HENRY SOKOLSKI

Executive Director
The Nonproliferation Policy Education Enter
“Nuclear World War: The Next Big Worry”
May 2004

AMBASSADOR EDWARD S. WALKER

President of the Middle East Institute
and former U.S. Ambassador to both Israel and Egypt
“The Current Situation in the Middle East”
September 2002

LISA BRONSON

Deputy Undersecretary of Defense,
Technology Security Policy and Counter-Proliferation and Director, Defense Technology
Security Administration
“Technology, Proliferation and Security – Global Challenges”
October 2002

KEN E. LAWSON

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement,
Department of the Treasury
“The Financing of Terrorism”
November 2002

JAMES WOOLSEY

former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
“The War on Terror: Why We Are In It and How We Should Fight It”
January 2003

HEATHER HURLBURT

former Special Assistant and speech writer to
President Clinton
“The Democrats’ Difficulty in
Formulating National Security Policy”
February 2003

SVANTE CORNELL

Editor of The Central Asia-Caucasus
Analyst at The Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University
“The Role of Turkey’s New Islamic-leaning Government in Current U.S. Policy”
March 2003

DIMITRIS AVRAMOPOULOS

former Mayor of Athens, Greece
“The Greek View of Events in the Region”
April 1, 2003

R. DOBIE LANGENKAMP

Director, National Energy –
Environmental Law and Policy Institute
University of Tulsa
“Who Gets the Oil: International Law and the Occupation of Iraq”
April 10, 2003

Dr. SANG-HYUN SONG

Judge of the International
Criminal Court in the Hague
“The International Criminal Court for Globalized Justice: Adjudication of War Crimes”
May 2003

COLIN H.C. HOWGILL

Former Chief of Staff and Joint Warfare Attache –
British Defense Staff, Washington, DC
“Counter-Terrorism: The Obstacles to Retribution”
September 2001

Dr. ELIE KRAKOWSKI

Former Pentagon Official and
Professor of International Relations
“U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and the Region in Light of the Recent Terrorist Attacks”
October 2001

Dr. MEYRAV WURMSER

Senior Fellow and Director for Middle East Studies
Hudson Institute, Washington DC
“Terrorism in America: Is There a Clash of Civilization”
November 2001

AMBASSADOR DOUGLAS “PETE” PETERSON

Remarks based on his military and diplomatic career
December 2001

Dr. MICHAEL TSIN

Director of the Asian Studies Program
at the University of Florida
“Chinese Nationalism in the Global Age”
January 2002

CANADIAN AMBASSADOR MICHAEL KERGIN

(and Former Canadian Ambassador to Cuba)
“U.S. – Canada Border Security”
February 2002

AMBASSADOR JAMSHEED MARKER

Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations
Former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States
“The Current Situation in South Asia”
March 2002

Dr. DAVID ABSHIRE

President, Center for Study of the Presidency
co-founder SAIS
Special Counselor to President Reagan
former Ambassador to NATO
“War Leaders: Lincoln, FDR and George W. Bush”
April 2002

LIEUTENANT GENERAL MICHAEL P. DELONG

United States Marine Corps
Deputy Commander United States Central Command
MacDill Air Force Base, Florida
May 2002

Dr. RICHARD L. MILLETT

“1.3 Billion for Colombia: Escalation, Solution or Irrelevance?”
September 2000

REAR ADMIRAL AL KONETZNI

Commander Submarine Force
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Comments on the recent Russian submarine disaster and issues related to United States National Security
October 2000

WILLIAM E. SCHMIDT

Associate Managing Editor, The New York Times
“A behind the scenes look at the life and work of a foreign correspondent for the powerful New York Times”
November 2000

C. J. (CHIEN-JEN) CHEN

Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO)
“Relations between the Republic of China on Taiwan and the United States: Its Past, Present and Future”
December 2000

JONATHAN CLARKE

Former career diplomat in the British Diplomatic
Service, presently an author and regular commentator on network and public TV programs.
“Field of Dreams or Poisoned Chalice?:
The Foreign Policy Inheritance of the Incoming Administration”
January 2001

Dr. MAZEN AL-NAJJAR

Recently released from detention by Federal authorities after being held on secret evidence
“From a Refugee to a Secret Evidence Detainee: Reflections of Mazen Al Najjar”
January 17, 2001

Dr. RACHEL EHRENFELD

Author of various books on this subject and frequent contributor to the NYT, WSJ, CNN and other broadcast media, and

Dr. JOE MOLYNEUX

Director of Security for Freeport-McMoRan
Copper & Gold, Inc., one of the world’s largest producers of copper and gold (based in Indonesia)
“How International Corruption Affects U.S. National Security – With a Special Look at the Indonesian Case”
February 2001

Dr. ROBERT H. DONALDSON

Trustees Professor of Political Science and Past President of the University of Tulsa
“Putin’s Russia: Reformism or Retrogression”
March 2001

CHUCK DOWNS

Senior Foreign and Defense Policy Advisor, Republican House Policy Committee
“What We Can Expect in Dealing with North Korea”
April 2001

EDWARD G. ABINGTON

Washington, D.C. counsel to the Palestinian National Authority and former
American Consul General in Jerusalem
“Prognosis on the Middle East Peace Process and Its Impact on US Regional Relations”
May 2001

AMBASSADOR SVEN ALKALAJ

Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to The United States
“Bosnia and the Region of Southeastern Europe: Aftermath of NATO”
September 1999

Dr. R.K. RAMAZANI

University of Virginia
Comments on recent events in Iran and their ramifications throughout the region.
October 1999

Mr. JOSEPH MANGUNO, JR.,

Senior Writer and Editor/Producer
CNN International
”The role of CNN in shaping public impressions of events impacting U.S. foreign policy”
November 1999

STEPHEN S.F. CHEN

Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO)
“The Prospects for the USA- ROC Relationship in the 21st Century”
December 1999

SPECIAL MEMBER FORUM

“Top Issues Facing The New President”
January 2000

AMBASSADOR ANDRE ERDOS

Hungary’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations
“The East European Revolutions of 1989: Ten Years After”
February 2000

GEN. PETER J. SCHOOMAKER

Commander U.S. Special Operations Command
“Guest Night”
March 2000

THOMAS GOLTZ

“American Interests in Russia’s Backyard:
What are We Doing In The Post-Soviet Caucasus”
April 2000

REAR ADMIRAL ERIC A. MCVADON (USN Ret.)

Former U.S. Defense and Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Beijing
“U.S. National Security in the Region with Particular Emphasis on the Current Tensions in the Taiwan Straight”
May 2000

GENERAL ANTHONY C. ZINNI

Commander U.S. Central Command
National Security Issues / Kenya and Tanzania Embassy Bombing Update
September 1998

Dr. PETER TRUBOWITZ

Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin
“Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy”
October 1998

Dr. RAYMOND TANTER

Professor of Political Science / Research Associate, Middle East Center
University of Michigan
“Rogue Regimes: Terrorism and Proliferation”
November 1998

Dr. MARSHALL GOLDMAN

Associate Director,
Davis Center for Russian Studies,
Harvard University
IGOR S. NEVEROV
Deputy Chief of Mission
Embassy of the Russian Federation to The United States
25th Anniversary Of The Tampa Bay Area Committee On Foreign Relations
December 1998

Mr. CHARLES GRAY

Counselor for U.S. Foreign Policy
British Embassy in Washington, D.C.
“The U.S. and Britain: Is the Special Relationship Still So Special?
January 1999

Dr. ROBERT EBEL

Director – Energy and National Security Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington, D.C.
“National Security Aspects of Oil and the Proposed Caspian Oil Pipeline”
February 1999

JOSEPH E. LAKE

Former U.S. Ambassador to Albania
Current Director of International Affairs –
City of Dallas
“Kosovo, Albania and the Balkans”
March 1999

Dr. MARK FALCOFF

Resident Scholar,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
“Panama’s Canal: Issues, Problems and Perils on the Eve of Transfer”
April 1999

GENERAL ROBERT MILLIGAN

Comptroller of the State of Florida
U.S. National Security/Military Preparedness
May 1999

AMBASSADOR FRANKLIN SONN

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Africa
“National Security Issues in Southern Africa”
September 1997

Dr. RICHARD RAHN

Chief Executive Officer – Novecon Ltd.
and Policy Chairman of the Business Leadership Council in Washington
“Transition to Capitalism in Eastern Europe”
October 1997

PAULA NEWBERG

Carnegie Endowment
“The Subcontinent Approaching the 21st Century”
November 1997

JAMES F. HOGE, JR.

Editor of Foreign Affairs
“China and Other Challenges”
December 1997

Dr. KIICHI MOCHIZUKI

Pacific and Asia Institutes
“Asian Financial Turmoil and U.S. National Security”
January 1998

THOMAS FINGAR

Deputy Undersecretary for Intelligence (previous chief – East Asian desk)
“Life In The Global Village: Implications of Problems In Asia, Peace In Afghanistan, Prosperity in Africa and Pensions in America.”
February 1998

GEN. PETER J. SCHOOMAKER

Commander U.S. Special Operations Command
MacDill Air Force Base Briefing
March 1998

LEON V. SIGAL, PROFESSOR

Columbia University’s School of
International and Political Affairs
“Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea”
April 1998

Dr. ALBERTO COLL

Professor of Strategy and Policy
United States Naval War College
“Cuba: Backwards or Forward”
May 1998

SALLY A. SHELTON

Assistant Administrator for Global Programs
U.S. Agency for International Development
“U.S. Strategic Interests in the Post-Cold War Era”
September 1996

AMBASSADOR CHARLES W. FREEMAN, JR.,

Chairman of Projects – International Associates
October 1996

AMBASSADOR ALLEN HOLMES

Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflicts
“Department of Defense: Meeting the Challenges of Terrorism.”
November 1996

CAREER AMBASSADOR ROBERT OAKLEY

“U.S. Activism Abroad – Unilateralism or Multilateralism.”
December 1996

JOHN J. STREMLAU

Advisor – The Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
“Preventing Deadly Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era.”
January 1997

KEN JENSEN

Executive Director
American Committees on Foreign Relations
“Challenges for the New Clinton Foreign Policy Team: A View from Inside the Beltway.”
February 1997

Dr. NATHANIEL B. THAYER

Director – Asian Studies/Japan Department
Johns Hopkins University – SAIS
“Security Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War.”
March 1997

PRESIDENT ALFONSO LOPEZ MICHELSEN

Former President of Colombia
Comments regarding the state of U.S.-Colombian relations and other important developments in Latin America
April 1997

AMBASSADOR WALTER L. CUTLER

President of the Meridian International Center
and Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Spoke about the volatile situation in the Middle East and protection of American interests in the region.
June 1997

MATTHEW MCHUGH

Counselor to the President of the World Bank
and Former U.S. Congressman
“The Politics of Foreign Aid”
September 1995

VLADIMIR MATIC

Former Assistant Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia
Discussed the current situation in the former Yugoslavia
October 1995

GENERAL JAMES B. DAVIS

Chief Negotiator with The North Atlantic Council and the United Nations
November 1995

AMBASSADOR JOHN D. SCANLON

Former U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia
“Balkan Wars or Balkan Peace”
December 1995

U.S. SENATOR BOB GRAHAM

Discussed the U.S. presence in Bosnia, relations with Cuba and related issues
January 1996

AMBASSADOR PAUL CLEVELAND

Former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Malaysia
“The United States, Australia and New Zealand: Partners in Asia”
February 1996

MAURICE WILLIAMS

Former Undersecretary of State in the Nixon Administration
“What Kinds of International Conflict Resolutions Might Work?”
March 1996

VLADIMIR RAKHMANIN

Political Counselor from the Russian Embassy
“Russia In Search Of Its Identity At Home and in the World”
April 1996

GENERAL J.H. BINFORD PEAY, III

Commander of U.S. CENTCOM
MacDill Air Force Base
May 1996

FRANCISCO FIALLOS

Former Nicaraguan Ambassador to The United States and The Vatican
Provided overview of foreign policy issues related to Latin America
May 1996

BARRY WIGGHAM

Hong Kong Commissioner to the United States
“Hong Kong In Transition: Problems and Prospects”
September 1994

AMBASSADOR DONALD P. GREGG

Chairman of the Board – The Korea Society
“Nuclear Proliferation on the North Korean Peninsula”
October 1994

HAFIZ PASHAYEV

Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States
Discussed current political crisis in Azerbaijan
November 1994

SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR RAY

Ambassador of India to the United States
Discussed current political situation in India
December 1994

GENERAL SHLOMO GAZIT

Distinguished Fellow – U.S. Institute of Peace
Discussed the current political and strategic climate in Israel
January 1995

Mr. NORIO TANAKA

Commercial Minister, Embassy of Japan
“Japan’s Foreign Policy: A New Role In Asia and The Americas”
February 1995

GREGORY TREVERTON

Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council
Discussed current issues facing the U.S. intelligence community
March 1995

Dr. KIM HOLMES

Vice President of The Heritage Foundation
“The New Congress: Foreign Policy After the First 100 Days”
April 1995

AMBASSADOR DIEGO ARRIA

Former Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.N.
and President of The Security Council
Discussed the U.N.’s role in Haiti, Bosnia and Somalia
May 1995

KENNETH H. KELLER

September 1992

DAVID K. SHIPLER

October 1992

RICHARD W. MURPHY

November 1992

RICHARD C. HOTTELET

December 1992

KEN BALICK

January 1993

GILLIAN GUNN

March 1993

JAMES CHACE

April 1993

STEPHEN R. LOEFFLER

April 1993

WILLIAM B. WHITMAN

May 1993