2017 Aspen Security Forum
July 19 - 22, 2017 | Aspen, CO
Securing the Homeland in the Post-9/11 Era
Speaker: John Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Pete Williams, Justice Correspondent, NBC News
No Room for Error: Advising the President on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Speaker: Thomas Bossert, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Moderator: David Sanger, National Security Correspondent and Senior Writer, The New York Times
One Off or Turning Point: the Airstrike in Syria
Speaker: Jane Harman, President, Director, and CEO, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Stuart Jones, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Speaker: Dina Kawar, Ambassador of Jordan to the U.S.
Speaker: Andrew Tabler, Martin J. Gross Fellow, Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy
Moderator: Tobin Harshaw, Editorial Writer, Bloomberg View
Putting Humpty-Dumpty Together Again: Is Iraq Finally Winning the War Against ISIS?
Speaker: Mary McCord, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security
Speaker: Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS
Speaker: Robin Wright, Distinguished Scholar, USIP
Speaker: Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to the U.S.
Moderator: Kim Dozier, Contributing Writer, the Daily Beast
Active Measures: The Kremlin Plan to Beat the West Without Firing a Shot
Speaker: Evelyn Farkas, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia
Speaker: Julia Ioffe, Columnist, The Atlantic
Speaker: Ned Price, former Special Assistant for National Security to the President
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Is NATO Up to the Challenge of the New World Order?
Speaker: Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, Assistant Secretary-General for Intelligence and Security, NATO
Speaker: Piotr Wilczek, Ambassador of Poland to the U.S.
Speaker: Peter Wittig, Ambassador of Germany to the U.S.
Moderator: Gordon Corera, Security Correspondent, BBC
War By Other Means
Speaker: Jeff Greene, Senior Director, Global Government Affairs and Policy, Symantec
Speaker: Bob Griffin, CEO, Ayasdi
Speaker: Joshua Skule, Executive Assistant Director for Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Speaker: Clint Watts, Senior Fellow, George Washington University for Cyber and Homeland Security
Moderator: Shane Harris, Senior National Security Writer, The Wall Street Journal
The View from Langley
Speaker: Mike Pompeo, Director, CIA
Moderator: Bret Stephens, Columnist, The New York Times
Tour d'Horizon
Speaker: Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security
Speaker: Avril Haines, former Deputy National Security Advisor
Speaker: Michael Hayden, former Director, National Security Agency
Speaker: Nicholas Rasmussen, Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Moderator: Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
A Deal is a Deal?
Speaker: Antony Blinken, former Deputy Secretary of State
Speaker: Joseph Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Speaker: Kori Schake, Research Fellow, Stanford University Hoover Institution
Speaker: Alex Vatanka, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
Moderator: Elise Labott, Global Affairs Correspondent, CNN
The Longest War
Speaker: James Cunningham, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Speaker: Hamdullah Mohib, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S.
Speaker: Robin Raphel, former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia
Moderator: Margaret Brennan, White House and Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CBS News
SOCOM: Policing the World
Speaker: Raymond "Tony" Thomas, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
Moderator: Catherine Herridge, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
Under Assault
Speaker: John Brennan, former Director, CIA
Speaker: James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Wolf Blitzer, Anchor, the Situation Room, CNN
Congress' Role in the Making and Execution of National Security Policy in the Trump Era
Speaker: Michael McCaul, Chairman, House Committee on Homeland Security
Speaker: Stephanie Murphy, U.S. Representative for Florida's 7th Congressional District
Speaker: Adam Schiff, Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Speaker: Mac Thornberry, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee
Moderator: Ryan Lizza, Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
At the Helm of the Intelligence Community
Speaker: Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Lester Holt, Anchor, NBC Nightly News
Mission...Possible!
Speaker: Robert Hannigan, former Director, U.K. Government Communications Headquarters
Speaker: Mike Rogers, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency
Moderator: David Ignatius, Associate Editor and Columnist, The Washington Post
That Was Then
Speaker: Michael Collins, Deputy Assistant Director, East Asia Mission Center, CIA
Speaker: Bonnie Glaser, Senior Advisor for Asia and Director, China Power Project, CSIS
Speaker: Kenichiro Sasae, Ambassador of Japan to the U.S.
Moderator: Michael Crowley, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, POLITICO
Fight Tonight
Speaker: Christopher Hill, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Speaker: Ahn Ho-young, Ambassador of South Korea to the U.S.
Speaker: Mark Lippert, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
Moderator: Gordon Chang, Columnist, the Daily Beast
Security v. Liberty
Speaker: Walter Isaacson, former President and CEO, the Aspen Institute
Speaker: Monika Bickert, Head of Product Policy and Counterterrorism, Facebook
Speaker: Dana Boente, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security
Moderator: Ellen Nakashima, National Security Writer, The Washington Post
One State/Two State
Speaker: Aaron David Miller, Vice President for New Initiatives and Distinguished Scholar, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Natan Sachs, Director, Center for Middle East Policy, the Brookings Institution
Speaker: Edward Walker, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Speaker: Husam Zomlot, Strategic Advisor to the President of the State of Palestine
Moderator: Ken Dilanian, Intelligence and National Security Reporter, NBC News
Tank Talk
Speaker: Joseph Dunford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News