2024 Aspen Security Forum Speakers

Condoleezza Rice

66th U.S. Secretary of State Director, Hoover Institution Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group

Joseph Nye

Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group

Anja Manuel

Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum

Niamh King

Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum

SPEAKERS

Antony J. Blinken

U.S. Secretary of State, Department of State

General CQ Brown, Jr.

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

GEN Christopher Cavoli

Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander, United States European Command

HH Sh. Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa

National Security Advisor, National Security Advisor Office

Christine E. Wormuth

Secretary of the Army, United States Army

Anne Neuberger

Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber & Emerging Tech., The White House - National Security Council

GEN Laura Richardson

Commander, United States Southern Command

Gen. Stephen Whiting

Commander, United States Space Command

Lt. Gen. Jeff Kruse

Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Stefano Sannino

Secretary General, European External Action Service

Jürgen Stock

INTERPOL Secretary General, INTERPOL

Ng Eng Hen

Minister for Defence, Singapore

Jens Plötner

Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to the Federal Chancellor, Federal Chancellery

Bharat Lal

Secretary General and CEO, National Human Rights Commission, India

Jake Sullivan

Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Jonatan Vseviov

Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

Penny Pritzker

Special Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery, U.S. Department of State

Roger D. Carstens

Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Alan F. Estevez

Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), U.S. Department of Commerce

Brian Nelson

Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Department of the Treasury

Doug Beck

Director, Defense Innovation Unit of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

John Cornyn

Senator, United States Senate

Chris Coons

Senator, United States Senate

Dan Sullivan

Senator, United States Senate

Matthew Noyes

Cyber Policy & Strategy Director, Office of Investigations, United States Secret Service

Robert M. Gates

Principal, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC; Former Secretary of Defense (2006-2011); Former President, Texas A&M University

Mark T. Esper

27th Secretary of Defense; Partner, Red Cell Partners Venture Capital

Stephen Biegun

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Fleming

Former Director, GCHQ

Anne-Marie Slaughter

CEO, New America

Katie Jenner

Indiana Secretary of Education, Indiana Department of Education

Beth Sanner

Director, Geopolitics and Strategy, International Capital Strategies; Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

John McLaughlin

Professor of Practice, Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Mara Karlin

Professor, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS; Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution

GEN Jack Keane

Commissioner, Commission on the National Defense Strategy

Jeh Charles Johnson

Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Chris Brose

Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries

Jane Holl Lute

Former United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

Kent Walker

President, Global Affairs, Google LLC

Bruce Andrews

Chief Government Affairs Officer, Intel

Teresa Hutson

Corporate Vice President, Technology for Fundamental Rights, Microsoft

Anna Makanju

Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI

Liz Martin

Director, U.S. Department of Defense, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services

Eric Schmidt

Former CEO, Google; Chair, Special Competitive Studies Project

David Miliband

CEO and President, International Rescue Committee

Eileen O'Connor

SVP Communications, Policy & Advocacy, The Rockefeller Foundation

Salam Fayyad

Visiting Senior Scholar, Princeton University; Former Prime Minister, Palestinian Authority

Tara Murphy Dougherty

CEO, Govini

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

President & CEO, The ONE Campaign

Igor Jablokov

CEO, Pryon

Robert Lightfoot

President, Lockheed Martin Space; Former Associate Administrator, NASA

Troy Demmer

CPO & Co-Founder, Gecko Robotics

Ernest J. Moniz

Co-Chair and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Meghan L. O'Sullivan

Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

General Yadlin is the president and founder of MIND Israel, an action-oriented NGO, advising Israeli leadership and entities involved in Israel’s national security. General Yadlin is the former Executive Director of Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Prior to that, he served for more than 40 years in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), including 10 as a member of its General Staff. He fulfilled several pivotal roles within the IDF, such as Deputy Commander of the Israeli Air Force and Defense Attaché to the United States. In his last role, he served as the Head of the IDF Intelligence Directorate (2006-2010).

Amos Yadlin

President and Founder, MIND Israel

Daniel Twining

President, International Republican Institute

Jon M. Huntsman Jr.

Vice Chair & President, Strategic Growth, Mastercard

Jane Harman

Chair, The Commission on the National Defense Strategy; President Emerita, The Wilson Center; Aspen Trustee; Former Member of Congress

Dan is a Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Washington, DC, office and is the global co-leader of McKinsey & Company's Sustainable Finance practice. In this role, he works with banks, insurers, asset managers, investors, and governments to build financing businesses in the context of the climate transition, understand climate risks, track and improve climate and environmental impacts, and create public disclosures. Since joining McKinsey in 2002, Dan has worked with commercial and public sector clients on performance improvement and strategy setting. He has particular expertise in real estate finance, energy finance, agriculture finance and public finance. He previously led McKinsey’s Public Finance Practice, and prior to that, the Real Estate Finance Practice. Daniel holds a JD with Honors from Harvard Law School and an A.B. in History and a Certificate in American Studies from Princeton University.

Dan Stephens

Senior Partner, McKinsey

Douglas Lute

Chair, International and Defense, BGR Group; Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO

Mara Rudman

Schlesinger Professor, Ripples of Hope Project Director, Miller Center, University of Virginia

Robert D. Blackwill

Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Chike Aguh

Senior Advisor, Project on Workforce, Harvard University

Kori Schake

Director, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Farah Pandith

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Eric S. Edelman

Counselor, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Studies

Mary Louise Kelly

Host, All Things Considered, NPR News

Jennifer Griffin

Chief National Security Correspondent, Fox News

Courtney Kube

National Security & Pentagon Correspondent, NBC News

David E. Sanger has reported for the New York Times for more than four decades, serving on three teams that have won the Pulitzer Prize. He has served as Tokyo Bureau Chief, Chief Economic Correspondent, Chief Washington Correspondent and White House Correspondent, and written four books on American national security. The most recent, written with Mary Brooks, was a New York Times bestseller in April, 2024: "New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion and America's Struggle to Save the West." Sanger is also an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, where he and Graham Allison co-teach "Central Challenges in American National Security, Strategy and the Press."

David Sanger

White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times

David Ignatius

Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post

Steve Clemons

Contributing Editor, National Interest

Walter Isaacson

Author and Professor, Tulane University

Ellen Nakashima

National Security Reporter, The Washington Post

Alexander Ward

National Security Reporter, Politico

Demetri covers all aspects of U.S.-China relations, ranging from foreign policy, security and intelligence to trade, technology and business. Over two decades at the FT, he has also served as Washington Bureau Chief, U.S. Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, South China Correspondent and Washington Business Correspondent. He also spent four years in Hong Kong as FT Asia News Editor, running the news operations in the region. Demetri began his career as an emerging markets currency derivatives trader at Citibank in Japan. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in finance, and has an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard University. He also studied at Beijing University, and Sophia University in Tokyo. He speaks near-native Japanese, rusty Mandarin Chinese and basic Cantonese. He was born and raised in Ireland.

Demetri Sevastopulo

U.S.-China Correspondent, Financial Times

Shashank Joshi

Defence Editor, The Economist

Loren Grush

Space Reporter, Bloomberg

Andrea Mitchell

Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News

Nick Schifrin

Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

Ravi Agrawal

Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy

Gordon Lubold

White House and National Security Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Dafna Linzer

Executive Vice President & Editorial Director, U.S. News & World Report

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

Editor, Foreign Affairs

2024 ASF

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