INVITED SPEAKERS

Italicized titles indicate position(s) held within the Bush administration.

Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar
Peter Baker
White House Correspondent
The New York Times
Author, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, 2013

• Elliott Abrams
  Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
  for Global Democracy Strategy, 2005-2009
• Thomas J. Basile
  Senior Press Advisor to Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
• John B. Bellinger, III
  Legal Adviser for the U.S. Department of State, 2005-2009
• Bradley A. Blakeman
  Deputy Assistant to President for Appointments and Scheduling,
  2001-2004
• John Bridgeland
  Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council;
  First Director of USA Freedom Corps
• Ron Christie
  Special Assistant to the President and Director of Policy Initiatives
  and Intergovernmental Affairs, 2002-2004
• Howard B. Dean III
  Senior Presidential Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, Hofstra University
• John J. DiIulio, Jr.
  Director, Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
• Dane S. Egli
  Director for Combating Terrorism, National Security Council, 2004-2006
• Peter D. Feaver
  Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform,
  National Security Council, 2005-2007
• Anand Gopal
  Journalist
• Porter J. Goss
  Director, Central Intelligence Agency, 2004-2006
  Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives, (R-FL), 1989-2004
• Joie A. Gregor
  Assistant to President for Presidential Personnel
• Michael V. Hayden
  Director, Central Intelligence Agency, 2006-2009
  Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, 2004-2005
  Director, National Security Agency, 1999-2005
  General (Ret.), United States Air Force
• Daniel C. Kurtzer
  U.S. Ambassador to Israel, 2001-2005
• Adair Margo
  Chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
• Anita McBride
  Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to First Lady 2005-2009
• Scott McClellan
  White House Press Secretary, 2003-2006
• Deborah N. Misir
  U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy,
  U.S. Department of Labor, 2006-2009; 
  Chief of Staff of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration;
  Ethics Attorney at the White House Counsel’s Office
• John D. Negroponte
  Deputy Secretary of State, 2007-2009
  Director of National Intelligence, 2005-2007
  United States Ambassador to Iraq, 2004-2005
  United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
  2001-2004
• Robert James (Jim) Nicholson
  Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2005-2007;
  U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, 2001-2005
• Pia M. Orrenius
  Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive
  Office of the President, 2004-2005
• Anne-Imelda Radice
  Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services
  Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of the
  Department of Education
• Edward J. Rollins
  Senior Presidential Fellow, Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency, Hofstra University
• Marc Sumerlin
  Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and
  Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, 2001-2002
• Phillip L. Swagel
  Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2006-2009
• Matthew C. Waxman
  Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations and
  Professor of Law, Columbia School of Law
• Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson (Ret.)
  Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
• Dov S. Zakheim
  U.S. Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), 2001-2004;
  Department of Defense Civilian Coordinator for Afghanistan, 2002-2004

FORUM AND PANEL INVITED SPEAKERS

• Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research  
• Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College
• Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies  
• Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune
• James Coll, Detective/Emergency Service Unit, New York City Police Department and Adjunct Professor of History, Nassau Community College
• Mark Danner, The New Yorker
• Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University
• Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
• Scott Horton, Columbia University Law School
• Will Jimeno, Detective (ret.)/Port Authority Police of NY/NJ
• Peter King, U.S. Congressman, NY 2nd District, 1992-present; Chairman of U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, 2005-2007; 2011-present.
• Stephen F. Knott, United States Naval War College  
• Michael Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• James Mann, Author, George W. Bush (2015)  
• Julie Mason, Press Pool Host, Siriux XM POTUS Channel  
• Roslyn Mazer, Attorney  
• Michael Nelson, Rhodes College
• David Norman Detective Second Grade/Emergency Service Unit, New York City Police Department
• Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm
• Joseph W. Pfeifer, Assistant Chief/Counterterrorism and Emergency Preparedness, New York City Fire Department
• James Pfiffner, George Mason University
• Ann Telnaes, The Washington Post  
• Shirley Anne Warshaw, Gettysburg College
• Peter Wehner, Deputy Director of Speechwriting; Head of Office of Strategic Initiatives  

MANY OF THE INVITED CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE AND/OR ARE ACTIVE PROFESSIONALS AND PRACTITIONERS. THEREFORE IT MUST BE RECOGNIZED THAT THEIR PARTICIPATION IS SUBJECT TO THEIR PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC COMMITMENTS.