Past Speakers
Cameron Abadi
Deputy Editor
Foreign Policy
Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Chris Anderson
Founder & President
Beacon Research
Rainer Baake
Director for the Agora Energy Project
Mercator Foundation
Luke Bassett
Associate Director of Domestic Energy Policy
Center for American Progress
José María Beneyto
Member of Congress, Spain
Jean-Yves Benoit
Director, Carbon Markets
Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development
Dáaiyah Bilal-Threats
Special Assistant to the Executive Director and Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives
National Education Association (NEA)
Federiga Bindi, PhD
Director for the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels
Founding Director of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence
University of Rome
Eduardo Bhatia, JD
President of the Senate
Puerto Rico
Graham Bishop
European League for Economic Co-operation (ELEC),
British Section
Fred Wells Brason II
President/CEO
Project Lazarus
Barbara Brohl
Executive Director
Department of Revenue
State of Colorado
Theresa Cardinal Brown
Director of Immigration Policy
Bipartisan Policy Center
David Brunori, JD
Research Professor of Public Policy
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
The George Washington University
Chris Calabrese
Vice President for Policy
Center for Democracy & Technology
Charles Call, PhD
Associate Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution
American University
Christopher D. Carroll
Director
Health Care Financing and Systems Integration
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Samuel Charap, PhD
Senior Political Scientist
RAND Corporation
John Colborn
Director, Skills for America’s Future
Aspen Institute
John Coleman
President of the Prescription Drug
Research Center
Charlie Cook
Political analyst
Editor and publisher
The Cook Political Report
Steven A. Cook, PhD
Heni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Phil Cox
Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association (2011–2014)
Joe Crosby
Chairman and CEO
MultiState
Lisa David
Executive Director of Public Health Solutions
New York, NY
Edward Davis
President & CEO
The Edward Davis Company
Laura Dawson
Director
Canada Institute, Wilson Center
Peter Debaere
Associate Professor of Business Administration
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
David Deming, PhD
Director
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Gerard DiPippo
Senior Fellow, Economics Program
CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies
Michael Dimock
Vice President for Research
Pew Research Center
Graham G. Dodds
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Concordia University
Randy Dorn
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State of Washington
William Duff
Foreign Policy Advisor to Admiral Swift
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Corina Eckl
(see Corina Eckl Mulder)
Thomas Faergeman
Founder and Director
CONCITO
Gregory B. Fairchild
Professor of Business Admininistration
Academic Director of Public Policy and Entrepreneurship
University of Virginia
Peter Fenn
President
Fenn Communications Group
Jennifer Fielder
CEO, American Lands Council
State Senator, Montana
Jean-Pierre Filiu, PhD
Professor of Middle East Stuides
Sciences Po University, Paris School of International Affairs
Center of International Studies
José María Robles Fraga
Director, International Corporate Affairs
Santander Bank
Patrice Frey
President and CEO
Main Street America
Richard A. Galen
Political Strategist
Mullings.com
Mark Galeotti, PhD
Senior Researcher
Institute of International Relations Prague
Frederic Grare, PhD
Senior Associate and Director of South Asia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Andrew Gruber
Executive Director
Wasatch Front Regional Council
Andrew Hacker
Professor, Political Science
Queens College
City University of New York
Rosanne Haggerty
President and CEO
Community Solutions
Christine Hahn, MD
Medical Director
Idaho Division of Public Health
Jennifer Hancock, LCSW
President & CEO
Volunteers of America Mid-States
Katie Harbath
Global lead for politics and government engagement
Facebook
Ellen Harpel, PhD
Founder
Smart Incentives
Geoffrey Harris
Distinguished teaching fellow for European Integration and Global Rights
Vasalius College
and former official of the European Parliament
Jared Harris, PhD
Professor
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
Michael Hechter, PhD
Foundation Professor
School of Politics & Global Studies
Arizona State University
Christian Henrichson
Director
Cost Benefit Unit
Vera Institute of Justice
Governor Gary Herbert
Governor of Utah
Pamela Herd
Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University
Kenneth McClintock Hernández
former Secretary of State
Puerto Rico
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Council on Foreign Relations
Gary Hoachlander
President
California ConnectEd’s “Linked Learning”
Michael Hogan
Senior Advisor
The Regulatory Assistance project
EU Energy Road Map 2050 project
Kil Huh
Senior Director, State and Local Fiscal Health
The Pew Charitable Trusts
George Jepsen
Attorney General
Connecticut
James Kane
Management Consultant
Arun Kapil, PhD
Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of Paris)
Paris Center of the Council on International Educational Exchange
Ira Kasoff, PhD
China & East Asia Foreign Policy
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia
U.S. Department of Commerce s International Trade Administration
Andy Keller, PhD
President & CEO
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Commander Heather Kelly, PhD
Chief of the Response Operations
US Coast Guard, San Juan Sector
Stephen R. Kelly
Visiting Professor of The Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Paul Kemp
Board Member
Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership (GOFRO)
Yariela Kerr-Donovan
Director
Department of Human Resources
Strategic Workforce Planning & Development
The Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS)
Kilolo Kijakazi
Institute Fellow
Urban Institute
Peter F. Kilmartin
Attorney General
Rhode Island
James Kirchick
Visiting Fellow
The Brookings Institution
Emil J. Kirchner
Professor
Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany
British Academy of Social Sciences
Hans-Helmut Kotz
Professor
Goethe University
Harvard University
Stéphane Lacroix, PhD
Associate Professor of Political Science
Sciences Po University
Researcher at the Center of International Studies (CERI)
Ambassador Jean-David Levitte
Member of the Institut de France
Professor at Sciences-Po University
Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Michael Leavitt
Former Governor of Utah
Founder and Chairman
Leavitt Partners
Alena Ledeneva, PhD
Professor of Politics and Society
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
Marc A. Levin
Policy Director, Right on Crime
Director, Center for Effective Justice
Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF)
Satu Limaye
Director
East-West Center
Rachel Lipson
Director, Project on Workforce
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Mark Hugo Lopez, PhD
Director of Hispanic Research
Pew Research Center
Chastity Lord
President and CEO
Jeremiah Program
Eric Lugo
Vice President in Global Philanthropy
JP Morgan Chase
Tim Maglione
Senior Director
Government Relations
Ohio State Medical Association
Paul Mango
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
David Manning
Special Envoy to Washington, DC
Province of Alberta, Canada
Felicia Marcus, PhD
Chair, State Water Resources Control Board
State of California
Leonard Marcus, PhD
Co-Director of the National Preparedness Leadership
Initiative
Harvard University
Michael Marx
Director, Beyond Oil Campaign
Sierra Club
Danna Mauch
President & CEO
Massachusetts Association for Mental Health
Rory McDonald
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Nicco Mele
Professor
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Marie Mendras, PhD
Professor
Sciences Po University, Paris School of International Affairs
Research Fellow at the Center of International Studies (CERI)
Member of the Institute for Law and Public Policy (Moscow)
Giles Merritt
Secretary General
Friends of Europe
Nancy Messonnier, MD
Director
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)e
Eric Miller
President
Rideau Potomac Strategy Group
Margit Molnar, PhD
Head of the China Desk
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) Economics Department
Jennifer Morgan
Global Director of the Climate Program
World Resources Institute
Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti
United Kingdom’s Energy Security Envoy
Corina Eckl Mulder
Consultant
former Director
Leaders Services National Conference of State Legislatures
Brian S. Neale
Healthcare Policy Director
State of Indiana
Tomáš Němeček
Professor of Czech and Slovak Modern History
New York University Prague
Martin Nie, PhD
Professor of Natural Resources Policy
Director of the Bolle Center for People and Forests
University of Montana
Michael Northrop
Director of Sustainable Development
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Tom Nuttall
Berlin Bureau Chief
The Economist
Colm O'Comartun
Executive Director of the Democratic Governors Association (2011–2014)
Eric L. Olson
Consultant
Latin American Program
Mexico Institute
Wilson Center
Manuel Orozco, PhD
Director
Migration, Remittances and Development
Inter-American Dialogue
Pier Carlo Padoan
Deputy Secretary General and Chief Economist
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD)
Fred Patrick
Director
Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Project
Center on Sentencing and Corrections
Vera Institute of Justice
Nathaniel Persily, JD, PhD
James B. McClatchy Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Adam Posen, PhD
President
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Simone Price
Director of Organizing
Center for Employment Opportunities
Daniel B. Prieto
CEO of Incubate
former Director, Cybersecurity Policy
National Security Council
David C. Quam
Partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
former Deputy Director of the National Governors’ Association
Sean D. Reyes
Attorney General
Utah
Jeremy Robbins
Executive Director
Partnership for a New American Economy
New York, NY
http://www.renewoureconomy.org/about
Tim Robinson
CEO & Founder
Addiction Recovery Care
Matthew Rooney
Managing Director
Bush Institute-SMU
Economic Growth Initiative
George W. Bush Institute
Stan Rosenberg
President of the Senate
State of Massachusetts
Christopher Sabatini, PhD
Adjunct Professor
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Christopher Sands
Senior Research Professor and Director of the Center for Canadian Studies
Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Anna Sauerbrey
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Der Tagesspiegel
Morgan Scarboro
Vice President
MultiState
Sam Schaeffer
Executive Director and CEO
Center for Employment Opportunities
Penny Schwinn, PhD
Commissioner of Education
State of Tennessee
Jan Schroth
International Organization for Migration
Anne Schwartz, PhD
Executive Director
Medicaid & CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC)
Klaus Segbers
Professor
International Relations and East European Studies
Freie University
Jean Seguin
Assistant Deputy Minister
Province of Quebec’s Ministry of the Economy, Science, and Innovation
Andrew Selee
President
Migration Policy Institute
Matthew Shelter
Co-Founder
Beacon Research
Patrick M. Shields, PhD
Executive Director
Learning Policy Institute
Richard Sinkin, PhD
Founder and Partner
InterAmerican Group
Col. Jeremy C. Slinker
Director
Kentucky Division of Emergency Management
Sheila A. Smith, PhD
Senior Fellow for Japan Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Scott Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies
Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
Alan Solomont
Former US Ambassador to Spain
Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service
Tufts University
James E. Spiotto, JD
Managing Director
Chapman Strategic Advisors, LLC
Christopher Steinhauser
Superintendent
Long Beach, California Unified School District
Dan Stewart
Senior Justice Advisor Public Safety
Cisco Systems
Bruno Tertrais, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Fondation Pour La Recherche Stratégique
Corey E. Thomas
Chairman & CEO
Rapid7
Joseph Thompson MD, MPH
Surgeon General
Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
Henry Thomson, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Politics & Global Studies
Arizona State University
Laura Tobler
Program Director, Health
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
Nathalie Tocci
Director
Istituto Affari Internazionali
Jeremy Travis, J.D.
President
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
Sanam Vakil, PhD
Senior Consulting Research Fellow
Middle East and North Africa Program
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Luis Vidal
Principal
Luis Vidal Architects
Russell Wald
Managing Director for Policy and Society
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Joe Walsh
Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Amy Walter
National Editor
The Cook Political Report
Emily Walton
Regional Director of State Affairs
Everytown for Gun Safety
Colin Wellenkamp, JD, LLM
Executive Director
Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative
Robin Willner
Staff Director
NYS P-TECH Leadership Council
Bryan Wilson
State Policy Director
National Skills Coalition
Alex Wirth
Cofounder of Quorum Analytics
Eckhard Wurzel, PhD
Head of the Bureau for the Euro Area and the European Union
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Economics Department
Kirsten Wyatt
Fellow
Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation
Georgetown University
Philip Yun
Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer
Ploughshares Fund
Eyal Zisser, PhD
Vice Rector
Tel Aviv University
Senate Presidents’ Forum
579 Broadway
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914-693-1818 • info@senpf.com
Copyright © 2023 Senate Presidents' Forum. All rights reserved.
Past Speakers
Cameron Abadi
Deputy Editor
Foreign Policy
Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Chris Anderson
Founder & President
Beacon Research
Rainer Baake
Director for the Agora Energy Project
Mercator Foundation
Luke Bassett
Associate Director of Domestic Energy Policy
Center for American Progress
José María Beneyto
Member of Congress, Spain
Jean-Yves Benoit
Director, Carbon Markets
Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development
Dáaiyah Bilal-Threats
Special Assistant to the Executive Director and Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives
National Education Association (NEA)
Federiga Bindi, PhD
Director for the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels
Founding Director of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence
University of Rome
Eduardo Bhatia, JD
President of the Senate
Puerto Rico
Graham Bishop
European League for Economic Co-operation (ELEC),
British Section
Fred Wells Brason II
President/CEO
Project Lazarus
Barbara Brohl
Executive Director
Department of Revenue
State of Colorado
Theresa Cardinal Brown
Director of Immigration Policy
Bipartisan Policy Center
David Brunori, JD
Research Professor of Public Policy
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
The George Washington University
Chris Calabrese
Vice President for Policy
Center for Democracy & Technology
Charles Call, PhD
Associate Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution
American University
Christopher D. Carroll
Director
Health Care Financing and Systems Integration
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Samuel Charap, PhD
Senior Political Scientist
RAND Corporation
John Colborn
Director, Skills for America’s Future
Aspen Institute
John Coleman
President of the Prescription Drug
Research Center
Charlie Cook
Political analyst
Editor and publisher
The Cook Political Report
Steven A. Cook, PhD
Heni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Phil Cox
Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association (2011–2014)
Joe Crosby
Chairman and CEO
MultiState
Lisa David
Executive Director of Public Health Solutions
New York, NY
Edward Davis
President & CEO
The Edward Davis Company
Laura Dawson
Director
Canada Institute, Wilson Center
Peter Debaere
Associate Professor of Business Administration
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
David Deming, PhD
Director
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Gerard DiPippo
Senior Fellow, Economics Program
CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies
Michael Dimock
Vice President for Research
Pew Research Center
Graham G. Dodds
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Concordia University
Randy Dorn
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State of Washington
William Duff
Foreign Policy Advisor to Admiral Swift
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Corina Eckl
(see Corina Eckl Mulder)
Thomas Faergeman
Founder and Director
CONCITO
Gregory B. Fairchild
Professor of Business Admininistration
Academic Director of Public Policy and Entrepreneurship
University of Virginia
Peter Fenn
President
Fenn Communications Group
Jennifer Fielder
CEO, American Lands Council
State Senator, Montana
Jean-Pierre Filiu, PhD
Professor of Middle East Stuides
Sciences Po University, Paris School of International Affairs
Center of International Studies
José María Robles Fraga
Director, International Corporate Affairs
Santander Bank
Patrice Frey
President and CEO
Main Street America
Richard A. Galen
Political Strategist
Mullings.com
Mark Galeotti, PhD
Senior Researcher
Institute of International Relations Prague
Frederic Grare, PhD
Senior Associate and Director of South Asia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Andrew Gruber
Executive Director
Wasatch Front Regional Council
Andrew Hacker
Professor, Political Science
Queens College
City University of New York
Rosanne Haggerty
President and CEO
Community Solutions
Christine Hahn, MD
Medical Director
Idaho Division of Public Health
Jennifer Hancock, LCSW
President & CEO
Volunteers of America Mid-States
Katie Harbath
Global lead for politics and government engagement
Facebook
Ellen Harpel, PhD
Founder
Smart Incentives
Geoffrey Harris
Distinguished teaching fellow for European Integration and Global Rights
Vasalius College
and former official of the European Parliament
Jared Harris, PhD
Professor
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
Michael Hechter, PhD
Foundation Professor
School of Politics & Global Studies
Arizona State University
Christian Henrichson
Director
Cost Benefit Unit
Vera Institute of Justice
Governor Gary Herbert
Governor of Utah
Pamela Herd
Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University
Kenneth McClintock Hernández
former Secretary of State
Puerto Rico
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Council on Foreign Relations
Gary Hoachlander
President
California ConnectEd’s “Linked Learning”
Michael Hogan
Senior Advisor
The Regulatory Assistance project
EU Energy Road Map 2050 project
Kil Huh
Senior Director, State and Local Fiscal Health
The Pew Charitable Trusts
George Jepsen
Attorney General
Connecticut
James Kane
Management Consultant
Arun Kapil, PhD
Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of Paris)
Paris Center of the Council on International Educational Exchange
Ira Kasoff, PhD
China & East Asia Foreign Policy
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia
U.S. Department of Commerce s International Trade Administration
Andy Keller, PhD
President & CEO
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Commander Heather Kelly, PhD
Chief of the Response Operations
US Coast Guard, San Juan Sector
Stephen R. Kelly
Visiting Professor of The Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Paul Kemp
Board Member
Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership (GOFRO)
Yariela Kerr-Donovan
Director
Department of Human Resources
Strategic Workforce Planning & Development
The Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS)
Kilolo Kijakazi
Institute Fellow
Urban Institute
Peter F. Kilmartin
Attorney General
Rhode Island
James Kirchick
Visiting Fellow
The Brookings Institution
Emil J. Kirchner
Professor
Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany
British Academy of Social Sciences
Hans-Helmut Kotz
Professor
Goethe University
Harvard University
Stéphane Lacroix, PhD
Associate Professor of Political Science
Sciences Po University
Researcher at the Center of International Studies (CERI)
Ambassador Jean-David Levitte
Member of the Institut de France
Professor at Sciences-Po University
Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Michael Leavitt
Former Governor of Utah
Founder and Chairman
Leavitt Partners
Alena Ledeneva, PhD
Professor of Politics and Society
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
Marc A. Levin
Policy Director, Right on Crime
Director, Center for Effective Justice
Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF)
Satu Limaye
Director
East-West Center
Rachel Lipson
Director, Project on Workforce
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Mark Hugo Lopez, PhD
Director of Hispanic Research
Pew Research Center
Chastity Lord
President and CEO
Jeremiah Program
Eric Lugo
Vice President in Global Philanthropy
JP Morgan Chase
Tim Maglione
Senior Director
Government Relations
Ohio State Medical Association
Paul Mango
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
David Manning
Special Envoy to Washington, DC
Province of Alberta, Canada
Felicia Marcus, PhD
Chair, State Water Resources Control Board
State of California
Leonard Marcus, PhD
Co-Director of the National Preparedness Leadership
Initiative
Harvard University
Michael Marx
Director, Beyond Oil Campaign
Sierra Club
Danna Mauch
President & CEO
Massachusetts Association for Mental Health
Rory McDonald
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Nicco Mele
Professor
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Marie Mendras, PhD
Professor
Sciences Po University, Paris School of International Affairs
Research Fellow at the Center of International Studies (CERI)
Member of the Institute for Law and Public Policy (Moscow)
Giles Merritt
Secretary General
Friends of Europe
Nancy Messonnier, MD
Director
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)e
Eric Miller
President
Rideau Potomac Strategy Group
Margit Molnar, PhD
Head of the China Desk
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) Economics Department
Jennifer Morgan
Global Director of the Climate Program
World Resources Institute
Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti
United Kingdom’s Energy Security Envoy
Corina Eckl Mulder
Consultant
former Director
Leaders Services National Conference of State Legislatures
Brian S. Neale
Healthcare Policy Director
State of Indiana
Tomáš Němeček
Professor of Czech and Slovak Modern History
New York University Prague
Martin Nie, PhD
Professor of Natural Resources Policy
Director of the Bolle Center for People and Forests
University of Montana
Michael Northrop
Director of Sustainable Development
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Tom Nuttall
Berlin Bureau Chief
The Economist
Colm O'Comartun
Executive Director of the Democratic Governors Association (2011–2014)
Eric L. Olson
Consultant
Latin American Program
Mexico Institute
Wilson Center
Manuel Orozco, PhD
Director
Migration, Remittances and Development
Inter-American Dialogue
Pier Carlo Padoan
Deputy Secretary General and Chief Economist
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD)
Fred Patrick
Director
Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Project
Center on Sentencing and Corrections
Vera Institute of Justice
Nathaniel Persily, JD, PhD
James B. McClatchy Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Adam Posen, PhD
President
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Simone Price
Director of Organizing
Center for Employment Opportunities
Daniel B. Prieto
CEO of Incubate
former Director, Cybersecurity Policy
National Security Council
David C. Quam
Partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
former Deputy Director of the National Governors’ Association
Sean D. Reyes
Attorney General
Utah
Jeremy Robbins
Executive Director
Partnership for a New American Economy
New York, NY
http://www.renewoureconomy.org/about
Tim Robinson
CEO & Founder
Addiction Recovery Care
Matthew Rooney
Managing Director
Bush Institute-SMU
Economic Growth Initiative
George W. Bush Institute
Stan Rosenberg
President of the Senate
State of Massachusetts
Christopher Sabatini, PhD
Adjunct Professor
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Christopher Sands
Senior Research Professor and Director of the Center for Canadian Studies
Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Anna Sauerbrey
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Der Tagesspiegel
Morgan Scarboro
Vice President
MultiState
Sam Schaeffer
Executive Director and CEO
Center for Employment Opportunities
Penny Schwinn, PhD
Commissioner of Education
State of Tennessee
Jan Schroth
International Organization for Migration
Anne Schwartz, PhD
Executive Director
Medicaid & CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC)
Klaus Segbers
Professor
International Relations and East European Studies
Freie University
Jean Seguin
Assistant Deputy Minister
Province of Quebec’s Ministry of the Economy, Science, and Innovation
Andrew Selee
President
Migration Policy Institute
Matthew Shelter
Co-Founder
Beacon Research
Patrick M. Shields, PhD
Executive Director
Learning Policy Institute
Richard Sinkin, PhD
Founder and Partner
InterAmerican Group
Col. Jeremy C. Slinker
Director
Kentucky Division of Emergency Management
Sheila A. Smith, PhD
Senior Fellow for Japan Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Scott Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies
Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
Alan Solomont
Former US Ambassador to Spain
Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service
Tufts University
James E. Spiotto, JD
Managing Director
Chapman Strategic Advisors, LLC
Christopher Steinhauser
Superintendent
Long Beach, California Unified School District
Dan Stewart
Senior Justice Advisor Public Safety
Cisco Systems
Bruno Tertrais, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Fondation Pour La Recherche Stratégique
Corey E. Thomas
Chairman & CEO
Rapid7
Joseph Thompson MD, MPH
Surgeon General
Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
Henry Thomson, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Politics & Global Studies
Arizona State University
Laura Tobler
Program Director, Health
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
Nathalie Tocci
Director
Istituto Affari Internazionali
Jeremy Travis, J.D.
President
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
Sanam Vakil, PhD
Senior Consulting Research Fellow
Middle East and North Africa Program
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Luis Vidal
Principal
Luis Vidal Architects
Russell Wald
Managing Director for Policy and Society
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Joe Walsh
Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Amy Walter
National Editor
The Cook Political Report
Emily Walton
Regional Director of State Affairs
Everytown for Gun Safety
Colin Wellenkamp, JD, LLM
Executive Director
Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative
Robin Willner
Staff Director
NYS P-TECH Leadership Council
Bryan Wilson
State Policy Director
National Skills Coalition
Alex Wirth
Cofounder of Quorum Analytics
Eckhard Wurzel, PhD
Head of the Bureau for the Euro Area and the European Union
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Economics Department
Kirsten Wyatt
Fellow
Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation
Georgetown University
Philip Yun
Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer
Ploughshares Fund
Eyal Zisser, PhD
Vice Rector
Tel Aviv University
CONTACT US
Senate Presidents’ Forum
579 Broadway
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914-693-1818 • info@senpf.com
Copyright © 2022 Senate Presidents' Forum. All rights reserved.
Past Speakers
Cameron Abadi
Deputy Editor
Foreign Policy
Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Chris Anderson
Founder & President
Beacon Research
Rainer Baake
Director for the Agora Energy Project
Mercator Foundation
Luke Bassett
Associate Director of Domestic Energy Policy
Center for American Progress
José María Beneyto
Member of Congress, Spain
Jean-Yves Benoit
Director, Carbon Markets
Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development
Dáaiyah Bilal-Threats
Special Assistant to the Executive Director and Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives
National Education Association (NEA)
Federiga Bindi, PhD
Director for the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels
Founding Director of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence
University of Rome
Eduardo Bhatia, JD
President of the Senate
Puerto Rico
Graham Bishop
European League for Economic Co-operation (ELEC),
British Section
Fred Wells Brason II
President/CEO
Project Lazarus
Barbara Brohl
Executive Director
Department of Revenue
State of Colorado
Theresa Cardinal Brown
Director of Immigration Policy
Bipartisan Policy Center
David Brunori, JD
Research Professor of Public Policy
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
The George Washington University
Chris Calabrese
Vice President for Policy
Center for Democracy & Technology
Charles Call, PhD
Associate Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution
American University
Christopher D. Carroll
Director
Health Care Financing and Systems Integration
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Samuel Charap, PhD
Senior Political Scientist
RAND Corporation
John Colborn
Director, Skills for America’s Future
Aspen Institute
John Coleman
President of the Prescription Drug
Research Center
Charlie Cook
Political analyst
Editor and publisher
The Cook Political Report
Steven A. Cook, PhD
Heni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Phil Cox
Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association (2011–2014)
Joe Crosby
Chairman and CEO
MultiState
Lisa David
Executive Director of Public Health Solutions
New York, NY
Edward Davis
President & CEO
The Edward Davis Company
Laura Dawson
Director
Canada Institute, Wilson Center
Peter Debaere
Associate Professor of Business Administration
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
David Deming, PhD
Director
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Gerard DiPippo
Senior Fellow, Economics Program
CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies
Michael Dimock
Vice President for Research
Pew Research Center
Graham G. Dodds
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Concordia University
Randy Dorn
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State of Washington
William Duff
Foreign Policy Advisor to Admiral Swift
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Corina Eckl
(see Corina Eckl Mulder)
Thomas Faergeman
Founder and Director
CONCITO
Gregory B. Fairchild
Professor of Business Admininistration
Academic Director of Public Policy and Entrepreneurship
University of Virginia
Peter Fenn
President
Fenn Communications Group
Jennifer Fielder
CEO, American Lands Council
State Senator, Montana
Jean-Pierre Filiu, PhD
Professor of Middle East Stuides
Sciences Po University, Paris School of International Affairs
Center of International Studies
José María Robles Fraga
Director, International Corporate Affairs
Santander Bank
Patrice Frey
President and CEO
Main Street America
Richard A. Galen
Political Strategist
Mullings.com
Mark Galeotti, PhD
Senior Researcher
Institute of International Relations Prague
Frederic Grare, PhD
Senior Associate and Director of South Asia Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Andrew Gruber
Executive Director
Wasatch Front Regional Council
Andrew Hacker
Professor, Political Science
Queens College
City University of New York
Rosanne Haggerty
President and CEO
Community Solutions
Christine Hahn, MD
Medical Director
Idaho Division of Public Health
Jennifer Hancock, LCSW
President & CEO
Volunteers of America Mid-States
Katie Harbath
Global lead for politics and government engagement
Facebook
Ellen Harpel, PhD
Founder
Smart Incentives
Geoffrey Harris
Distinguished teaching fellow for European Integration and Global Rights
Vasalius College
and former official of the European Parliament
Jared Harris, PhD
Professor
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
Michael Hechter, PhD
Foundation Professor
School of Politics & Global Studies
Arizona State University
Christian Henrichson
Director
Cost Benefit Unit
Vera Institute of Justice
Governor Gary Herbert
Governor of Utah
Pamela Herd
Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University
Kenneth McClintock Hernández
former Secretary of State
Puerto Rico
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Council on Foreign Relations
Gary Hoachlander
President
California ConnectEd’s “Linked Learning”
Michael Hogan
Senior Advisor
The Regulatory Assistance project
EU Energy Road Map 2050 project
Kil Huh
Senior Director, State and Local Fiscal Health
The Pew Charitable Trusts
George Jepsen
Attorney General
Connecticut
James Kane
Management Consultant
Arun Kapil, PhD
Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic University of Paris)
Paris Center of the Council on International Educational Exchange
Ira Kasoff, PhD
China & East Asia Foreign Policy
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia
U.S. Department of Commerce s International Trade Administration
Andy Keller, PhD
President & CEO
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Commander Heather Kelly, PhD
Chief of the Response Operations
US Coast Guard, San Juan Sector
Stephen R. Kelly
Visiting Professor of The Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Paul Kemp
Board Member
Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership (GOFRO)
Yariela Kerr-Donovan
Director
Department of Human Resources
Strategic Workforce Planning & Development
The Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS)
Kilolo Kijakazi
Institute Fellow
Urban Institute
Peter F. Kilmartin
Attorney General
Rhode Island
James Kirchick
Visiting Fellow
The Brookings Institution
Emil J. Kirchner
Professor
Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany
British Academy of Social Sciences
Hans-Helmut Kotz
Professor
Goethe University
Harvard University
Stéphane Lacroix, PhD
Associate Professor of Political Science
Sciences Po University
Researcher at the Center of International Studies (CERI)
Ambassador Jean-David Levitte
Member of the Institut de France
Professor at Sciences-Po University
Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Michael Leavitt
Former Governor of Utah
Founder and Chairman
Leavitt Partners
Alena Ledeneva, PhD
Professor of Politics and Society
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
Marc A. Levin
Policy Director, Right on Crime
Director, Center for Effective Justice
Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF)
Satu Limaye
Director
East-West Center
Rachel Lipson
Director, Project on Workforce
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Mark Hugo Lopez, PhD
Director of Hispanic Research
Pew Research Center
Chastity Lord
President and CEO
Jeremiah Program
Eric Lugo
Vice President in Global Philanthropy
JP Morgan Chase
Tim Maglione
Senior Director
Government Relations
Ohio State Medical Association
Paul Mango
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
David Manning
Special Envoy to Washington, DC
Province of Alberta, Canada
Felicia Marcus, PhD
Chair, State Water Resources Control Board
State of California
Leonard Marcus, PhD
Co-Director of the National Preparedness Leadership
Initiative
Harvard University
Michael Marx
Director, Beyond Oil Campaign
Sierra Club
Danna Mauch
President & CEO
Massachusetts Association for Mental Health
Rory McDonald
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
Nicco Mele
Professor
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Marie Mendras, PhD
Professor
Sciences Po University, Paris School of International Affairs
Research Fellow at the Center of International Studies (CERI)
Member of the Institute for Law and Public Policy (Moscow)
Giles Merritt
Secretary General
Friends of Europe
Nancy Messonnier, MD
Director
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)e
Eric Miller
President
Rideau Potomac Strategy Group
Margit Molnar, PhD
Head of the China Desk
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) Economics Department
Jennifer Morgan
Global Director of the Climate Program
World Resources Institute
Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti
United Kingdom’s Energy Security Envoy
Corina Eckl Mulder
Consultant
former Director
Leaders Services National Conference of State Legislatures
Brian S. Neale
Healthcare Policy Director
State of Indiana
Tomáš Němeček
Professor of Czech and Slovak Modern History
New York University Prague
Martin Nie, PhD
Professor of Natural Resources Policy
Director of the Bolle Center for People and Forests
University of Montana
Michael Northrop
Director of Sustainable Development
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Tom Nuttall
Berlin Bureau Chief
The Economist
Colm O'Comartun
Executive Director of the Democratic Governors Association (2011–2014)
Eric L. Olson
Consultant
Latin American Program
Mexico Institute
Wilson Center
Manuel Orozco, PhD
Director
Migration, Remittances and Development
Inter-American Dialogue
Pier Carlo Padoan
Deputy Secretary General and Chief Economist
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD)
Fred Patrick
Director
Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Project
Center on Sentencing and Corrections
Vera Institute of Justice
Nathaniel Persily, JD, PhD
James B. McClatchy Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Adam Posen, PhD
President
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Simone Price
Director of Organizing
Center for Employment Opportunities
Daniel B. Prieto
CEO of Incubate
former Director, Cybersecurity Policy
National Security Council
David C. Quam
Partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
former Deputy Director of the National Governors’ Association
Sean D. Reyes
Attorney General
Utah
Jeremy Robbins
Executive Director
Partnership for a New American Economy
New York, NY
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Tim Robinson
CEO & Founder
Addiction Recovery Care
Matthew Rooney
Managing Director
Bush Institute-SMU
Economic Growth Initiative
George W. Bush Institute
Stan Rosenberg
President of the Senate
State of Massachusetts
Christopher Sabatini, PhD
Adjunct Professor
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Christopher Sands
Senior Research Professor and Director of the Center for Canadian Studies
Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Anna Sauerbrey
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Der Tagesspiegel
Morgan Scarboro
Vice President
MultiState
Sam Schaeffer
Executive Director and CEO
Center for Employment Opportunities
Penny Schwinn, PhD
Commissioner of Education
State of Tennessee
Jan Schroth
International Organization for Migration
Anne Schwartz, PhD
Executive Director
Medicaid & CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC)
Klaus Segbers
Professor
International Relations and East European Studies
Freie University
Jean Seguin
Assistant Deputy Minister
Province of Quebec’s Ministry of the Economy, Science, and Innovation
Andrew Selee
President
Migration Policy Institute
Matthew Shelter
Co-Founder
Beacon Research
Patrick M. Shields, PhD
Executive Director
Learning Policy Institute
Richard Sinkin, PhD
Founder and Partner
InterAmerican Group
Col. Jeremy C. Slinker
Director
Kentucky Division of Emergency Management
Sheila A. Smith, PhD
Senior Fellow for Japan Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Scott Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies
Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
Alan Solomont
Former US Ambassador to Spain
Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service
Tufts University
James E. Spiotto, JD
Managing Director
Chapman Strategic Advisors, LLC
Christopher Steinhauser
Superintendent
Long Beach, California Unified School District
Dan Stewart
Senior Justice Advisor Public Safety
Cisco Systems
Bruno Tertrais, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Fondation Pour La Recherche Stratégique
Corey E. Thomas
Chairman & CEO
Rapid7
Joseph Thompson MD, MPH
Surgeon General
Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
Henry Thomson, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Politics & Global Studies
Arizona State University
Laura Tobler
Program Director, Health
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
Nathalie Tocci
Director
Istituto Affari Internazionali
Jeremy Travis, J.D.
President
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
Sanam Vakil, PhD
Senior Consulting Research Fellow
Middle East and North Africa Program
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Luis Vidal
Principal
Luis Vidal Architects
Russell Wald
Managing Director for Policy and Society
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Joe Walsh
Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Amy Walter
National Editor
The Cook Political Report
Emily Walton
Regional Director of State Affairs
Everytown for Gun Safety
Colin Wellenkamp, JD, LLM
Executive Director
Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative
Robin Willner
Staff Director
NYS P-TECH Leadership Council
Bryan Wilson
State Policy Director
National Skills Coalition
Alex Wirth
Cofounder of Quorum Analytics
Eckhard Wurzel, PhD
Head of the Bureau for the Euro Area and the European Union
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Economics Department
Kirsten Wyatt
Fellow
Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation
Georgetown University
Philip Yun
Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer
Ploughshares Fund
Eyal Zisser, PhD
Vice Rector
Tel Aviv University
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