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Founded in 1980, The World Affairs Council of Washington D.C. is a non-profit, non-partisan 501©3 organization dedicated to enlightening and educating the D.C. community about international issues.
The World Affairs Council hosts monthly events for its diverse membership, which consists of professionals in business, academia, government, diplomacy, and other Non-governmental Organizations , as well as young professionals, educators, students, and all those interested in the issues facing the international community. Events – including the Embassy Series, Distinguished Speaker Series, Meet the Ambassadors Series, Town Hall Meetings, Author Series, Young Professional Events, and Foreign Policy forums- feature prominent international experts, diplomats, authors, and other distinguished speakers. Non-members are welcome to attend most events.
Over the past 27 years, the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C. has been dedicated and committed to supporting the education of international affairs in Washington, D.C. area students as well as middle and high school educators. Today, the Council sponsors a variety of programs during the academic year and summer to help enrich the knowledge of educators and students. Programs for educators include the Summer Institute and Professional Development Programs. Programs for students include Youth Forums, the Young Journalist Program, the Young Ambassadors Program, and Academic World Quest. These programs give educators and students in the Washington, DC metropolitan area the opportunity to develop and hone leadership and teamwork skills, gain knowledge of international affairs and of important global issues, and meet a variety of influential leaders, experts, and newsmakers.


PUBLIC PROGRAMS

The World Affairs Council of Washington, DC offers a variety of programs on current international issues, including:
  • Town Hall meetings

  • Seminars

  • Panel Discussions

  • Author Events

  • Embassy Receptions


Most Council events are open to members and the general public. The Council encourages open and candid discussion. Speakers include senior U.S. officials, Congressional leaders, academics, foreign policy experts, journalists, authors, foreign leaders and others.


SCHOOLS PROGRAM

The World Affairs Council of Washington, DC also sponsors programs specifically for metro area educators and students, including:
  • Professional development workshops

  • Student leadership forums

  • Young Journalist Program

  • Academic WorldQuest regional competition

  • Study abroad scholarships for DC youth

  • Internship opportunities



PAST SPEAKERS AT THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

U.S. Ambassadors

Hon. Dr. David M. Abshire , Co-Founder and Vice Chairman , Board , Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), President and CEO , Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP) and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO.

Hon. Charlene Barshefsky , former United States Trade Representative.

Hon. Charles W. Freeman, Jr. , Chairman of the Board, Projects International, Inc., former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Hon. Peter Galbraith , Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia

Hon. Edward Gnehm , the Shapiro Professor, Elliott School of International Relations at George Washington and former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia

Hon. Robert L. Hutchings, Chairman, National Intelligence Council and former Director for European Affairs, National Security Council

Hon. Cameron Hume, U.S. Chief of Mission to Sudan and former Ambassador to South Africa and Algeria.

Hon. Robert Hunter , Senior Advisor, Rand Corporation, and former Ambassador to NATO

Hon. Karl Inderfurth , Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and former Assistant Secretary of State, South Asian Affairs

Hon. William Itoh, former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand

Hon. Victor Jackovich, former U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Chief , U.S. mission to Moldova.

Hon. Elizabeth Jones, Executive Vice President, APCO Worldwide, and former Ambassador to Kazakhstan

Hon. Curtis W. Kamman, former Ambassador to Colombia, Bolivia, and Chile

Hon. Robert M. Kimmitt , former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to Germany

Hon. Dennis Kux, Senior Policy Scholar, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program and former Ambassador to the République de Côte d'Ivoire

Hon. Bruce Laigen, former President, American Academy of Diplomacy, and former U.S. Ambassador to Malta

Hon. John Maisto , Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States and former Ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Hon. Jack F. Matlock, Jr. , former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia

Hon. Ronald E. Neuman, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and former Ambassador to Algeria and Bahrain

Hon. Mark Palmer , former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary

Hon. Edward Peck , former Chief of Mission to Iraq, Ambassador to Mauritania and former Deputy Director, White House Task Force on Terrorism

Hon. Thomas R. Pickering , former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Hon. William T. Pryce, Vice President, Council of the Americas and former Senior Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, National Security Council and Ambassador to Honduras

Hon. Dennis Ross, Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former Special Middle East Coordinator

Hon. J. Stapleton Roy , Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc, and former Ambassador to Singapore, the People's Republic of China, and Indonesia

Hon. Teresita C. Schaffer, Director, South Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and former Director, Foreign Service Institute and Ambassador to Sri Lanka

Hon. David Shinn, former Director for East African Affairs, Department of State and former Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.

Hon. Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., President, Foundation for Middle East Peace and former Chief of Mission and U.S. Consul General, Jerusalem.

Foreign Ambassadors

H.E. Farid Abboud, Ambassador of the Lebanese Republic

H.E. Roberto P. Abdenur, Ambassador of the Federative Republic of Brazil

H.E. Dr. Abdullah Abdullah , Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

H.E. Akbar S. Ahmed , Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University and former High Commissioner of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Great Britain

H.E. Daniel Ayalon , Ambassador, State of Israel

H.E. Christian Blickenstorfer, Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation

H.E. Ambassador Juan Jose Bremer, Ambassador of the United Mexican States to the United Kingdom, and former Ambassador to the United States, the Kingdom of Spain, the Federal Republic of Germany, the former Soviet Union, and to the Kingdom of Sweden

H.E. Soemadi D.M. Brotodiningrat, former Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia

H.E. John Bruton , former European Union's Ambassador to the United States and former Prime Minister of Ireland

H.E. Heng Chee Chan, Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore and former Executive Director, Singapore International Foundation

H.E. Raymond Chrétien , former Ambassador of Canada

H.E. Paul Durand, Permanent Representative of Canada, Organization of American States and Chairman of the Permanent Council

H.E. Nabil Fahmy, Ambassador, Arab Republic of Egypt

H.E. Saqr Ghobash, Ambassador, United Arab Emirates

H.E. Rodolfo Gil, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the Organization of American States

H.E. Carlos Alberto de Icaza Gonzalez, Ambassador of the United Mexican States

H.E. Jean-Marie Guehenno , United Nation's Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations and former French Republic Ambassador to the Western European Union

H.E. Bernardo Alvarez Herrera , Ambassador of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

H.E. Wolfgang Ischinger , Ambassador of Germany

H.E. Said Tayeb Jawad, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

H.E. Karim Kawar , Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

H.E. Dato’ Ghazzali Sheikh Abdul Khalid, Ambassador of Malaysia

H.E. Nasser bin Hamad M. Al Khalifa, Ambassador, State of Qatar

H.E. Sakthip Krairiksh, Ambassador of Kingdom of Thailand

H.E. Jean-David Levitte , Ambassador of the French Republic

H.E. Sir Christopher Meyer ''', Ambassador, United Kingdom

H.E. Imad Moustapha , Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic

H.E. Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco

H.E. Juan Esteban Orduz, former Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Colombia

H.E. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia

H.E. Denis Pietton, French Ambassador to South Africa and former D.C.M., Embassy of the French Republic to the U.S.

H.E. Alok Prasad, High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka and former High Commissioner of India to Singapore and Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of India

H.E. Afif Safieh , Representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States and former Palestine's representative to the United Kingdom.

H.E. George V. Savvaides, Ambassador of Hellenic Republic (Greece)

H.E. Stefano Stefanini, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Italian Republic

H.E. Ronen Sen , Ambassador of the Republic of India

H.E. Jukka Valtasaari, Ambassador of the Republic of Finland

U.S. Congress Members

Hon. Daniel Akaka , (D-HI) U.S. Senate

Hon. Joe Biden ''', Jr.''' (D-De), U.S. Senate

Hon. Orrin Hatch , (R-Ut), U.S. Senate

Hon. Denis Kucinich , (D-Oh), U.S. House of Representatives

Hon. Sam Nunn , Co-Chairman and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative and former U.S. Senator (D-GA)

Hon. Gordon Smith , (R-Or), U.S. Senate

Hon. Curt Weldon , (R-Pa), former U.S. House of Representatives and Senior Member, House Armed Services Committee

Distinguished Speakers

Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and Founder, Board Member, and Secretary, U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee

David Bosch, Director, Aramco Services Company

Hon. Shadid Javed Burki, former Finance Minister, Republic of Pakistan and Vice President, World Bank

Lt. General Kevin Byrnes , USA, Ret., U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs and Director, Army's Quadrennial Defense Review Efforts.

Bill Clinton , former President of the United States

General Wesley Clark , USA, Ret., former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
William Cohen, former Secretary of Defense

Lorne Craner , Assistant Secretary of State, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and former President, International Republican Institute

Alan Dershowitz , Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Hon. Diana Lady Dougan, Center for Strategic & International Studies Chairman, Cyber Century Forum

Thomas L. Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner with The New York Times

Lt. Colonel Heinrik van der Gaag, Royal Netherlands Army, Allied Command Atlantic

Dr. Andrew S. Grove, Chairman, Intel Corporation

Jean-Marie Guehenno, United Nation's Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations

Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations and former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department.

Hon. Miguel Hakim, Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Mexican States

Morton H. Halperin, Director of U.S. Advocacy, Open Society Institute and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Harry Harding, former Dean, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Franklin D. Kramer, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Partner, Shea & Gardner

Anthony Lake, former U.S. National Security Advisor

Alan P. Larson, Asst. Secretary, Department of State, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

Lord Peter Levene, Chairman of Lloyd's and General Dynamics UK Limited

John Maisto, former Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization of American States

Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Philip Merrill, Chairman, The Washingtonian

Lt. Col. Cornelis Laurentius de Moel, Royal Netherlands Army, Allied Command Atlantic

Dr. Lee Morin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of State

Major General William L. Nash, USA, Ret., Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director, Military Fellows Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Hon. Roger Noriega, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State

Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee

Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., President and CEO, Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Dr. Richard Solomon, President, United States Institute of Peace

Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Director, Atlantic Council of the United States

Lawrence H. Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and former President, Harvard University

Togo D. West, President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and former Secretary, Army and Veterans Affairs and

Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell

James D. Wolfensohn, Ninth President, World Bank

Hon. R. James Woolsey, Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton and former Director of Central Intelligence

Gen. Anthony Zinni, USA, Ret., former Commander, U.S. Central Command

Past Speakers

Hebah Abdalla, Senior Interview Producer, Al Jazeera

Dr. Hibba Abugideiri, Assistant Professor of History, Honors and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Gordon Adams, Director, Security Policy Studies Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Dr. Fawziah Al-Bakr, Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University
Huda M. Al-Ghoson, Director, Employee Relations Policy and Planning Department, Saudi Aramco

Maya Ajmera, Founder and President, Global Fund for Children

Ifzal Ali, Chief Economist, Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank

Ernie Allen, President and CEO, National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children and President and CEO, International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children

Dr. Jon Alterman, Director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Nunda Prakash Ambegaonkar, Co-Founder and President, Tellus Technologies Corporation and Co-Founder and President, Bridging Nations Foundation

Greg Anrig, Jr., Vice President of Programs, Century Foundation

Ali Ansari, Director, Institute for Iranian Studies

Ziad Asali, President and Founder, American Task Force on Palestine

Reza Aslan, Middle East scholar

George Atkinson, former Science and Technology Adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell

Salim S. Al-Aydh, former Senior Vice President, Saudi Aramco

Nader Ayish, Professor and Interculturalist

Kenneth Bacon, President, Refugees International

Ronald Bailey, award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and adjunct scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute

Oya Bain, Capital Region Vice President, Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA)

Dr. Shaul Bakash, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History, George Mason University
Zeyno Baran, Director, International Security and Energy Programs, Nixon Center

Dr. Peter Bechtold, Chairman Emeritus, Near East North Africa Area Studies, U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute

Ann Beeson, Director of U.S. Programs, Open Society Institute (OSI)

Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)

Keith Bellows, Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic Traveler and Vice President , National Geographic Society.

Danna Bell-Russel, Digital Reference Specialist, Library of Congress

Peter Bergen, Fellow, New America Foundation and Adjunct Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Susan Bennett, Director, International Exhibits, Newseum

Kai Bird, Contributing Editor, The Nation

Thomas S. Blanton, Director, National Security Archive, GWU

Harm de Blij, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Michigan State University

Salih Booker, Executive Director, Africa Action

Arnaud de Borchgrave, Senior Advisor and Director, Transnational Threats Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Najmeh Bozorgmehr, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution and correspondent for Financial Times, Tehran.

Don Bragaw, Professor emeritus, East Carolina University

Ellen Brennan-Galvin, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, and former Chief, Population Section, United Nations Population Division

Peter Brookes, Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs & Director, Asian Studies Center, Heritage Foundation

Nathan Brown, Professor, Political Science and International Relations, George Washington University

Janusz Bugajski, East European Studies Program, Bureau of European Affairs, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

John Burgess, Princeton University

Holly Burkhalter, Director, U.S. Policy and Health Action AIDS campaign, Physicians for Human Rights

Richard Bush, Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, Brookings Institution and former Managing Director, American Institute in Taiwan

Dr. John Calabrese, Professor, U.S. Foreign Policy, American University and Book Review Editor, Middle East Journal

Sally Caldwell, Director, World Wise Schools Program

Dr. Kurt Campbell, CEO, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and Advisory Board Member, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Scott J. Carpenter, Near East Affairs Bureau, U.S. Department of State, and former Director, Governance Group, Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).

Edwin Carrington, Secretary General, Caribbean Community

Dr. Victor Cha, Director of Asian Affairs, White House National Security Council

Michael Chandler, film producer

Joel Charney, Vice President for Policy, Refugees International

Zaki Chehab, London Bureau Chief of Al Hayat and Political Editor , Arabic TV channel LBC

Jack Child, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, American University

Genntanjali Chopra, Chief, News Bureau, World Bank

Edward C. Chow, Senior Fellow, Energy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and former Headquarter Manager, International and External Affairs, Chevron Corporation

Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President, National Security and International Affairs, Center for American Progress and former Director, Non-Proliferation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Michael Clark, Executive Director, U.S.-India Business Council

Edward Cody, Deputy Foreign Editor, Washington Post

Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Prof. David Cole, Georgetown University Law

Ann-Louise Colgan, Acting Co-Executive Director, Africa Action

Steve Coll, Pultizer-Prize winning journalist and staff writer, The New Yorker

H. Thomas Collins, Project LINKS, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Yasemin Congar, Milliyet

Pamela Constable, Afghanistan reporter, Washington Post

Dr. Frederick R. Czarra, Council of Chief State School Officers

Tulin Daloglu, Journalist, Turkish Star TV

Vishakha N. Desai, President, Asia Society

Karen DeYoung, Associate Editor, Washington Post

Christine Dolan, Political Director, CNN and CEO, African Trust

John Donvan, NIGHTLINE correspondent, ABC News

Susan Douglass , former Senior Researcher, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Initiative and former Affiliated Scholar, Council on Islamic Education

Leonard Downie, Jr., Executive Editor, Washington Post

Ken Drexler, Digital Reference Specialist, Library of Congress

Mel Duncan, Independent scholar

Robert M. Dunn, Jr., Professor of Economics, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Joseph Dymond, Adjunct Professor, Geography, George Washington University

Maurice A. East, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs and former Dean, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Robert E. Ebel, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute

David Ensor, National Security Correspondent, CNN

Amanda Erickson, Teacher, U.S. History, Psychology and Sociology, New Richmond High School

Haleh Esfandiari, Director , Middle East Program, Wilson Center and former Deputy Secretary General , Women's Organization of Iran

John Esposito, founding director , Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

John M. Evans, Director, Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. State Department

Abby Falik, Program Manager, Global Citizen Corps, NetAid

Douglas Farah, former West Africa Bureau Chief, Washington Post

Dr. Michael Fay, biologist and explorer with the Wildlife Conservation Society and National Geographic Society

Linda Fasulo, Special Correspondent to the United Nations for NBC News and MSNBC

Samar Fatany, Radio Journalist, Radio Jeddah (English Service) and Ministry of Information, Saudi Arabia

Richard E. Feinberg, Director, APEC Study Center and Chair, Global Leadership Institute, University of California, San Diego

Justin W. van Fleet , Program Associate, Education for Global Citizenship, NetAid

Leon Fuerth, former National Security Adviser to Vice President Al Gore and J.B. and '''Maurice C. Shapiro''' Professor of International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Thomas Fingar, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Intelligence & Research, U.S. Department of State

Corazon Sandoval Foley, Bureau of Intelligence and Research Program Manager

Carl W. Ford, Jr. former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, U.S. State Department

Henrietta Fore, Undersecretary of State for Management, U.S. State Department

Linda Pappas Funsch, former U. S. Director, The American Research Center in Egypt and Editor, The Arab World

Richard L. Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus, Thomas J. Watson Research Center and former Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations

Filiz Odabas-Geldiay, Vice President, Ataturk Society of America

Barton Gellman, Special Projects Reporter, Washington Post

Olaf Gersemann, Wirtschaftswoche

Dr. Edmund Ghareeb, Mustafa Barzani Scholar of Global Kurdish Studies, American University Center for Global Peace and Adjunct Professor, Middle East History and Politics, School of International Service, American University

Bates Gill, Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS )

Paul Glastris, Editor-in-chief, Washington Monthly

James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations

Margaret Goodman, Government Relations Coordinator, World Learning for International Development

Philip Gordon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution

Dr. Daniel Goure, Vice President, Lexington Institute and former Deputy Director , International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Frederic Grare, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Karen Greenberg, Executive Director, Center for Law and Security, New York University

Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute

Jason Gross, Director, Government and Business Affairs, US Global Leadership Campaign

Alicia Guajardo, Senior Associate, International Humanitarian Law Dissemination, American Red Cross

Nikolas Gvosdev, Contributing Editor, National Interest

Jerry Hagstrom, Contributing Editor, The National Journal

Peter Hakim, President, Inter-American Dialogue

Michael Haltzel, Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and former Staff Director, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Dr. James E. Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York

Hussain Haqqani, Associate Professor, International Relations, Boston University and Co-Chair, Islam and Democracy Project, Hudson Institute

Hope M. Harrison, Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Robert Hathaway, Director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

David Hawley, Chief, Media Relations, IMF

Jeffrey Hayden, Senior Press Officer, IMF

Dr. Kevin Healy, Representative for Panama and Honduras, Inter-American Foundation and
Adjunct Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Peter Heller, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim Chaplain, Georgetown University

Nelson Hernandez, Baghdad Correspondent, Washington Post

Antonia V. Herzog, Staff Scientist, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council

Paul Hewitt, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, U.S. Social Security Administration and former Director , Global Aging Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Felicity Hill, United Nations Development Fund for Women

Jody Hoff, Vice President and Program Administrator, Idaho Council on Economic Education and Executive Administrator, International Economic Summit (IES)

David Hoffman, Assistant Managing Editor, Foreign News, Washington Post

Dr. Engin Inel Holmstrom, Sociologist

Dr. Ralf Horlemann, Political Counselor, Embassy of Germany

Prof. Wouter van Houven, Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria and President, Kissama Foundation

Dr. Gene Huang, Chief Economist for FedEx

Shireen Hunter, Director, Islam Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Adam B. Isacson, Center for International Policy

David Ignatius, Op-Ed Columnist, Washington Post

Mary Jordan, Bureau Chief, Mexico City Bureau, Washington Post

Robert Kaiser, Associate Editor, Washington Post

Shanthi Kalathil, former Associate, Carnegie Endowment for Peace

Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow, Joan Shorenstein Center

Josephine Kamara, Voice of America

Kenneth Katzman, Middle East Affairs Specialist, Congressional Research Service

Marleen Kassel, Director, TeachAsia Programs, Asia Society and former Director, Teach China Program, China Institute

Dalia Dassa Kaye, Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University and former International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Geoffrey Kemp, Director of Regional Strategic Programs, Nixon Center

Gilles Kepel, Professor and Chair of Middle East Studies, Institute of Political Studies in Paris

Glenn Kessler, National Correspondent, Foreign and Defense Issues, Washington Post

Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director, Middle East Institute at Columbia University

Rami Khouri, Editor-at-Large, Beirut-based Daily Star, and winner, 2004 Eliaz-Sartawi Award for Middle East Journalism

Andrew Kohut, Director, Pew Research Center, The People & The Press

Arnold Kramish, physicist and author associated with the Manhattan Project

Gerald Krell, Auteur Productions, Ltd.

Laith Kubba, Senior Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa, National Endowment for Democracy, President, Iraq National Group

Steven Kull, Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) and Director, Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA)

Joshua Kurlantzick, author of ''Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World''

Ellen Laipson, President and CEO, Henry L. Stimson Center and former Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council

David M. Lampton, Director of Chinese Studies, Nixon Center and George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

William Langewiesche, International Editor for Vanity Fair magazine and former national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly

Kirk W. Larsen, Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs, Korea Foundation and Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in International Affairs, George Washington University

Jennifer Lawson, head of Magic Box Mediaworks

Flynt Leverett, Senior fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution and former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs, U.S. National Security Council

Dr. Marlo Lewis, Jr., Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Anatol Lieven, Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow, New America Foundation

Thomas W. Lippman, Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute

Joseph Lockhart, former White House press secretary

Jeffrey Logan, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute and former Senior Energy Analyst, International Energy Agency in Paris

John M. Logsdon, Founder and Current Director, Space Policy Institute, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Kristin Lord, Associate Dean, Strategy, Research, and External Relations, Elliot School of International Relations, George Washington University

Erin Luchenbill, ONE Campaign Fellow, Bread for the World

Dr. Edward N. Luttwak, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Dr. Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute

Cheryl MacLean, Program Officer, School Connectivity for Uzbekistan, IREX

Dr. Kanan Makiya, the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University

David Makovsky, Senior Fellow & Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, Washington Institute

Haim Malki, Deputy Director and Fellow, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Susan Mann, Psychotherapist, and Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
Nuraddin Mannan, Sudan Human Rights Organization (SHRO)

Moshe Ma’oz, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University; United States Institute of Peace, Scholar In-Residence

Dr. Phebe Marr, Senior Fellow, United States Institute for Peace

Radwan A. Masmoudi, Founder, Member of the Board, and President, Center of the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID)

Dr. Melani McAlister, Associate Professor of American Studies, George Washington University

Matthew McAllester, Newsday's United Nations correspondent

Andrew Meldrum, The Guardian

Hisham Melhem, Journalist, Dubai-based Al Arabiya

Mariam Memarsadeghi, Senior Program Manager, Middle East and North Africa, Freedom House

E. Wayne Merry, Senior Associate, American Foreign Policy Council

Karl E. Meyer, Editor, World Policy Journal

James R. Millar, Director, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Aaron D. Miller, President, Seeds of Peace

Andrea Mitchell, NBC News

Mike M. Mochizuki, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University

Afshin Molavi, Fellow, New America Foundation

Susan Mordan, Educational Specialist, Interpretive Programs, Library of Congress

Dr. Adil Najam, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Hidaya Said Najmi, Muslim Palestinian Speaker

Henry R. Nau, Director, U.S.-Japan Economic Agenda and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Shirley Neff, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

Ryan Nelson, International Soccer Player, New Zealand National Soccer Team and Blackburn Rovers

Salameh Nematt, Washington Bureau Chief, London-based Al Hayat

Pamela Noe, Adjunct Professor, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University and former Intelligence Officer, Sherman Kent School of Intelligence Analysis, CIA

Dr. Franklin Odo, Director, Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Program

Thomas Andrew O’Keefe, President, Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd

William O'Keefe, CEO, Marshall Institute and President of Solutions Consulting, Inc

Trita Parsi, Middle East Specialist, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Kevin Payne, President & CEO, DC United

Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Co-Founder, President and Board Member, Migration Policy Institute

Fred Pearce, former News Editor and environment and development consultant, New Scientist

George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

James A. Placke, Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Sam Pitroda, Telecom Entrepreneur, Former Advisor to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

Jerrold M. Post, Director, Political Psychology Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

John Prados, Senior Fellow, National Security Archive

John Prendergast, Special Advisor to the President, International Crisis Group

Dr. Hasan Abdel Rahman, Chief Representative, PLO Mission

Clay Ramsay, Research Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes, University of Maryland

Ahmed Rashid, journalist and author

Thomas J. Reckford, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Keith Richburg, Foreign News Editor, Washington Post

Thomas Ricks, Pulitzer-Prize winning author and visiting fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Captain J. Ashley Roach, Office, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State

Carla Robbins, News Editor, Wall Street Journal

Dagoberto Rodriguez, Chief, Cuban Interest Section

Alina L. Romanowski, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Professional and Cultural Exchanges, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, Department of State

Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch

Oliver Roy, professor, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Dr. John Ruedy, Professor Emeritus of History, Georgetown University

Josh Rushing, correspondent for Al Jazeera English and former U.S. Marine captain

Andrew Saidel, President and COO, Dynamic Strategies Asia, LC.

Roald Sagdeev, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Director, East-West Space Science Center, University of Maryland and Director Emeritus, Space Research Institute

Marc Sageman, former CIA Operations Officer

Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for International Studies, MIT

Sylvester J. Schieber, Vice President of Research and Information, Watson Wyatt Worldwide

Stephen Schlesinger, former Director, World Policy Institute, New School University

Michael Scheuer, former Chief, Bin Laden Issue Station, CIA

Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Independent Scholar

Stephen J. Schulhofer, Robert B. McKay Professor of Law, New York University Law School and former Director, Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, University of Chicago

Sherle R. Schwenninger, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute and Director of Global Economic Policy Program, New America Foundation

Daniel P. Serwer, Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations and Center of Innovation, United States Institute of Peace

Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer-Prize winning author and Foreign Correspondent, Washington Post

Dr. Judith Shapiro, Scholar in Residence, School of International Service (SIS), American University

Michael Shifter, Program Director, Inter-American Dialogue and Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies, Georgetown School of Foreign Service

David Shipler, Pulitzer Prize winning author

Dr. Susan Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs

Michal Shohat, Jerusalem City Council member and former Secretary General , Israeli Meretz Party

Carlos Silva-Jauregui, Advisor to the Chief Economist, Social and Economic Development Group (MNSED), World Bank

Dimitri K. Simes, President, Nixon Center and Publisher, National Interest

Paul Singer, reporter for Inside EPA

Dr. S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project and former Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation

Andrei Sitov, ITAR-TASS

Gila Sivrsky, Jewish Israeli Speaker

James A. Smith, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Dr. Lawrence Spinelli, Director, Public Affairs, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

Dr. William Clark Spragens, former Chair of Political Science Department and Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green University

Robert David Steele, CEO of OSS.net and former U.S. intelligence officer

Eric E. Sterling, President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation

Douglas Struck, Foreign Correspondent, Washington Post

Manuel Suárez-Mier, Senior Economist, Bank of America

Dr. Robert Sutter, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Dr./Col. William J. Taylor, USA (Ret.), Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace Development, University of Maryland and Senior Fellow,

Saban Center, Brookings Institute

Jane Thery, Principal Summit Specialist, Organization of American States

Shekhar Tiwari, Foreign Policy Advisor to Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Adam Tomasek, Priority Leader for Borneo-Sumatra, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Alan Tonelson, Research Fellow, U.S Business & Industrial Council Educational Foundation

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Karen Tumulty, White House Correspondant, Time Magazine

Joan Barth Urban, Professor of Political Science, Catholic University

David Varty, founder and CEO, Conservation Corporation Africa

Frank Verrastro, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies Energy Program (CSIS)

Milton Viorst, Senior Scholar, Middle East Institute

Dr. Carol Vlassoff, Unit Chief, HIV/AIDS Program, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch

Ming Wan, Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University

Rebecca Weiner, Globalization 101, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Steven R. Weisman, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, New York Times

Barry Wells, Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of State

Cindy Williams, Senior Research Fellow of Security Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Griff Witte, Afghanistan Correspondent, Washington Post

Kenneth Wollack, President, National Democratic Institute

Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist

Robin Wright, Staff Writer, Washington Post

Xiaohui Wu, Career Diplomat, Chinese Foreign Ministry

Michael Yahuda, Professor Emeritus, International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London

Jiawen Yang, Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs, George Washington University

Dr. Judith S. Yaphe, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Elise Young, Regional Central and Mid-Atlantic Coordinator, Bread for the World

Tarik M. Yousef, Associate Professor, Economics, School of Foreign Service and Shaykh Al Sabah Chair in Arab Studies, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

Dov Zakheim, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton and Advisory Council Member, the National Interest

Jean Zaru, Vice President, Sabeel

John Zogby, President, Zogby International


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