2018 Aspen Security Forum
July 18 - 21, 2018 | Aspen, CO
A Chat with the Director of the FBI
Speaker: Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Moderator: Lester Holt, Anchor, NBC Nightly News
Securing the Homeland
Speaker: Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Peter Alexander, National Correspondent, NBC News
Defending Democratic Institutions: Election 2018 and Beyond
Speaker: Monika Bickert, Head of Product Policy and Counterterrorism, Facebook
Speaker: Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President for Customer Security and Trust, Microsoft
Speaker: Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security
Speaker: Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Cybersecurity and Communications
Speaker: Kim Wyman, Secretary of State, Washington State
Moderator: Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
America First
Speaker: Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
Speaker: Jane Harman, President, Director, and CEO, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Hugh Hewitt, Host, the Hugh Hewitt Show
Speaker: Peter Westmacott, former Ambassador of the U.K. to the U.S.
Moderator: William Kristol, Editor-at-Large, The Weekly Standard
A Look Over My Shoulder: The DNI Reflects and Foreshadows
Speaker: Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
"There's a War Coming"
Speaker: Yousef Al Otaiba, Ambassador of the UAE to the U.S.
Speaker: Antony Blinken, former Deputy Secretary of State
Speaker: Wendy Sherman, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Speaker: Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Confronting Global Cyber Threats
Remarks: Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General
Speaker: Thomas Bossert, former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Speaker: Greg Clark, CEO, Symantec
Speaker: Lisa Monaco, former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Moderator: David Sanger, National Security Correspondent and Senior Writer, The New York Times
Taking Fate Into Our Own Hands
Speaker: Emily Haber, Ambassador of Germany to the U.S.
Speaker: John McLaughlin, former Acting and Deputy Director, CIA
Speaker: Michael Murphy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Speaker: David O'Sullivan, Ambassador of the EU to the U.S.
Moderator: Terry Moran, Chief Foreign Correspondent, ABC News
Cold War Redux
Speaker: Nina Khruscheva, Professor of International Affairs, the New School
Speaker: Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Speaker: Andrew Weiss, former Director, Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council
Moderator: Julia Ioffe, Correspondent, GQ
A New Nuclear Arms Race
Speaker: Bonnie Jenkins, former Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs, U.S. Department of State
Speaker: Frank Klotz, former Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
Speaker: Franklin Miller, former Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control, National Security Council
Speaker: Andrew Weber, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs
Moderator: Michael Gordon, National Security Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Taking Fate Into Our Own Hands: Part II
Speaker: William Browder, Head, Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign
Speaker: Vadym Chernysh, Minister for Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs of Ukraine
Speaker: Mikk Marran, Director General, Estonian Foreign Intelligence
Speaker: Andy Pike, Director of International Communications, 10 Downing Street
Moderator: Courtney Kube, National Security & Military Correspondent, NBC News
Emerging Technologies
Speaker: Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
Speaker: Stacey Dixon, Deputy Director, IARPA
Speaker: Will Hurd, Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Speaker: Samuel Visner, Director, National Cybersecurity FFRDC, MITRE
Moderator: Cecilia Kang, Technology Reporter, The New York Times
"Victory" in Afghanistan and Iraq
Speaker: Adam Schiff, Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Speaker: Thomas Shannon, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Speaker: Samantha Vinograd, former Senior Advisor to the National Security Advisor
Speaker: Juan Zarate, former Deputy National Security Advisor
Moderator: Kim Dozier, Contributing Writer, the Daily Beast
And the Army Goes Rolling Along
Speaker: Mark Esper, Secretary of the Army
Moderator: Catherine Herridge, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
China Rising
Speaker: Michael Collins, Deputy Assistant Director, East Asia Mission Center, CIA
Speaker: Marcel Lettre, former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Speaker: Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador of Singapore to the U.S.
Speaker: Susan Thornton, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Pentagon Policy
Speaker: John Rood, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Moderator: Barbara Starr, Pentagon Correspondent, CNN
Southern Discomfort
Speaker: Sergio Silva do Amaral, Ambassador of Brazil to the U.S.
Speaker: Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Roberta Jacobson, former Ambassador of the U.S. to Mexico
Speaker: Nestor Mendez, Assistant Secretary General, OAS
Moderator: Enrique Acevedo, News Anchor, Univision
The "New" Mideast and Regional Counterterrorism
Speaker: Michael Ngata, Director of Strategic Operational Planning, NCTC
Speaker: Nathan Sales, Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State
Speaker: Ali Shihabi, Founder, the Arabia Foundation
Moderator: Dina Temple-Raston, Counterterrorism Correspondent, NPR
Is Peace Possible on the Peninsula?
Speaker: Vincent Brooks, Commander, U.S. Forces Korea and Commander, ROK-US Combined Forces Command
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Speaker: Suzanne DiMaggio, Senior Fellow and US-Iran Initiative Director, New America
Speaker: Woongsoon Lim, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of South Korea to the U.S.
Speaker: Michael McCaul, Chairman, House Committee on Homeland Security
Speaker: Sue Mi Terry, Senior Fellow and Korea Chair, CSIS
Moderator: Gordon Chang, Columnist, the Daily Beast
Countering Threats Old and New
Speaker: Paul Nakasone, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency
Moderator: Gordon Corera, BBC News