Past Speakers

A partial listing of speakers from the past three years.

A

Cameron Abadi
Deputy Editor
Foreign Policy

Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations

Chris Anderson
Founder & President
Beacon Research

B

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

C

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

D

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

E

Corina Eckl
(see Corina Eckl Mulder)

F

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

G

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

H

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

J

George Jepsen
Attorney General
Connecticut

K

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

L

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

M

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

N

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

O

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

P

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

Q

David C. Quam
Partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
former Deputy Director of the National Governors’ Association

R

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

S

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

T

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

V

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

W

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

Y

Philip Yun
Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer
Ploughshares Fund

Z

Eyal Zisser, PhD
Vice Rector
Tel Aviv University

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Past Speakers

A partial listing of speakers from the past three years.

A

Cameron Abadi
Deputy Editor
Foreign Policy

Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations

Chris Anderson
Founder & President
Beacon Research

B

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

C

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

D

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

E

Corina Eckl
(see Corina Eckl Mulder)

F

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

G

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

H

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

J

George Jepsen
Attorney General
Connecticut

K

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

L

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

M

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

N

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

O

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

P

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

Q

David C. Quam
Partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
former Deputy Director of the National Governors’ Association

R

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

S

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

T

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

V

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

W

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

Y

Philip Yun
Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer
Ploughshares Fund

Z

Eyal Zisser, PhD
Vice Rector
Tel Aviv University

CONTACT US

Senate Presidents’ Forum

579 Broadway

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

 

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Past Speakers

A partial listing of speakers from the past three years.

A

Cameron Abadi
Deputy Editor
Foreign Policy

Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations

Chris Anderson
Founder & President
Beacon Research

B

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

C

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

D

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

E

Corina Eckl
(see Corina Eckl Mulder)

F

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

G

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

H

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

J

George Jepsen
Attorney General
Connecticut

K

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

L

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

M

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

N

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

O

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

P

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

Q

David C. Quam
Partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
former Deputy Director of the National Governors’ Association

R

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

S

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

T

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

V

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

W

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

Y

Philip Yun
Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer
Ploughshares Fund

Z

Eyal Zisser, PhD
Vice Rector
Tel Aviv University

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