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2023 Aspen Security Forum
Fireside Chat with Admiral John C. Aquilino
Speaker: Admiral John C. Aquilino, Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Moderator: Courtney Kube, NBC News Correspondent, NBC News
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Fireside Chat with Monica Juma
Speaker: Monica Juma, National Security Advisor to the President of the Republic of Kenya
Moderator: Sarah Smith, North America Editor, BBC News
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Fireside Chat with Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Speaker: Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative of the United States to the United Nations, U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
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Fireside Chat with General James H. Dickinson
Speaker: General James H. Dickinson, Commander, U.S. Space Command
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist, The Washington Post
Fireside Chat with James Cleverly
Speaker: James Cleverly, Secretary of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, United Kingdom
Moderator: Martha MacCallum, Anchor and Executive Editor of The Story and Co-Anchor of Fox News Election Coverage with Bret Baier, Fox News
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Addressing Today’s Threat & Ensuring Tomorrow’s Edge: Accelerating Capabilities for the DoD
Speaker: Douglas A. Beck, Director, Defense Innovation Unit and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense
Speaker: Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries
Speaker: Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, U.S. Department of Defense
Moderator: Gordon Lubold, White House & National Security Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
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U.S. Competitiveness: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Zoë Baird, Senior Counselor to the Secretary for Technology and Economic Growth, U.S. Department of Commerce
Speaker: Yll Bajraktari, President and CEO, Special Competitive Studies Project
Moderator: Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times
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Fireside Chat with Xie Feng
Speaker: Xie Feng, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the U.S.
Moderator: Steve Clemons, Founding Editor at Large, Semafor
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Shifting Tides: A New Middle East?
Speaker: Goli Ameri, Co-Founder, StartItUp and Former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Speaker: Tzipi Livni, Former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Justice of Israel
Speaker: Farah Pandith, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Former Special Representative to Muslim Communities, U.S. Department of State
Speaker: Dina Powell McCormick, Vice Chairman & President of Global Client Services, BDT-MSD; Former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States
Moderator: Steve Clemons, Founding Editor at Large, Semafor
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Final Frontier: Space Strategy for the Future
Speaker: Salvatore 'Tory' Bruno, CEO, United Launch Alliance
Speaker: John Plumb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
Speaker: Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, Assistant Director for Space Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist, The Washington Post
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Sanctions, Scams, and Schemes: Cross-Sector Collaboration to Combat Financial Crime
Speaker: Aaron Karczmer, EVP, Chief Enterprise Services Officer, PayPal
Speaker: Brian Nelson, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Speaker: Matt Olsen, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, U.S. Department of Justice
Moderator: Mary Louise Kelly, Co-Host, All Things Considered, NPR
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Fireside Chat with Christo Grozev
Speaker: Christo Grozev, Lead Russia Investigator, Bellingcat Productions
Moderator: Sharon Weinberger, National Security Editor, The Wall Street Journal
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Denver Dialogue on Democracy – The Global Democracy Agenda
Speaker: María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador
Speaker: Mariano-Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Speaker: Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Speaker: Jane Harman, Chair, Commission on the National Defense Strategy, and Former Member of Congress
Moderator: Matthew Kaminski, Editor-in-Chief, POLITICO
The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Arati Prabhakar, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Speaker: Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs, Google
Speaker: Heidi Heitkamp, Director, University of Chicago Institute of Politics; Former U.S. Senator for North Dakota
Speaker: Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
Moderator: Ryan Heath, Global Technology Correspondent, Axios
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Fireside Chat with Alejandro N. Mayorkas
Speaker: Alejandro N. Mayorkas, 7th U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
Fireside Chat with Christine Wormuth
Speaker: Christine Wormuth, 25th Secretary of the Army, U.S. Army
Moderator: Courtney Kube, NBC News Correspondent, NBC News
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The China Challenge: Is the U.S. Getting China Right?
Speaker: Michael Froman, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Naima Green-Riley, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Speaker: Joseph Nye, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group and Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Speaker: Kristen Silverberg, President & COO, Business Roundtable, and Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
Moderator: Edward Luce, U.S. National Editor and Columnist, Financial Times
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Inflection Point: India and the Changing World Order
Speaker: Rana Ayyub, Global Opinions Contributing Writer, The Washington Post
Speaker: Shivshankar Menon, Visiting Professor of International Relations at Ashoka University
Speaker: Joseph Nye, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group and Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Speaker: Nirupama Rao, Former Foreign Secretary of India
Moderator: Amna Nawaz, Co-Anchor, PBS NewsHour
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Critical Minerals and National Security
Speaker: Heidi Heitkamp, Director, University of Chicago Institute of Politics; Former U.S. Senator for North Dakota
Speaker: Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Mike Pompeo, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute, and 70th U.S. Secretary of State
Moderator: Misha Glenny, Journalist and Rector, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
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Fireside Chat with Ahmad Massoud (VIRTUAL)
Speaker: Ahmad Massoud, Leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
Moderator: Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
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Speaker: Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (VIRTUAL)
Speaker: Colin Kahl, Senior Fellow, Stanford University, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
Speaker: Oleksandra Matviichuk, Head, Centre for Civil Liberties, Ukraine and Nobel Peace Laureate
Speaker: Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia; Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Update on the Vilnius Summit: Fireside Chat with Mircea Geoană
Speaker: Mircea Geoană, Deputy Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Moderator: David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
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The Future of European Defense and Security
Speaker: Mircea Geoană, Deputy Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Speaker: G.E.W. van Leeuwen, Foreign Affairs and Defense Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Speaker: Tom Tugendhat, Minister of State (Minister for Security) of the United Kingdom
Moderator: Peter Spiegel, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
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Fireside Chat with Emmanuel Bonne
Speaker: Emmanuel Bonne, Diplomatic Advisor and G20-G7 Sherpa for the President of the French Republic
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Anchor and Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
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Democracy, Security, and Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Rob Joyce, Director of Cybersecurity, National Security Agency
Speaker: Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President, Microsoft
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
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Re-Engineering American Security: Cultivating Talent for Competitiveness
Speaker: Romy Drucker, Director, Education Program, Walton Family Foundation
Speaker: Chris Howard, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Arizona State University
Speaker: Condoleezza Rice, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group, and 66th U.S. Secretary of State
Moderator: Stephanie Ruhle, Host, “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” and NBC News Senior Business Analyst, MSNBC
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Fireside Chat with William Burns
Speaker: William Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Moderator: Mary Louise Kelly, Co-Host, All Things Considered, NPR
Fireside Chat with Antony J. Blinken
Speaker: Antony J. Blinken, 71st U.S. Secretary of State
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Chris Coons, U.S. Senator for Delaware
Speaker: John Cornyn, U.S. Senator for Texas
Speaker: James E. Risch, U.S. Senator for Idaho
Moderator: Peter Spiegel, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
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Fireside Chat with Chrystia Freeland
Speaker: Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada
Moderator: Matthew Kaminski, Editor-in-Chief, POLITICO
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Fireside Chat with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (VIRTUAL)
Speaker: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
Moderator: Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
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On Thin Ice? Navigating the New North
Speaker: Esther D. Brimmer, James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senator for Alaska
Speaker: Vice- Admiral Frank 'Trey' Whitworth, Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Anchor and Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
New Technologies and Old Treaties: Are International Limits on Weapons Still Possible?
Speaker: Mark T. Esper, Partner and Board Member, Red Cell Venture Capital, and 27th U.S. Secretary of Defense
Speaker: Bonnie D. Jenkins, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, U.S. Department of State
Speaker: Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum
Moderator: David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
Fireside Chat with Jake Sullivan
Speaker: Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, National Security Council
Moderator: Edward Luce, U.S. National Editor and Columnist, Financial Times
2022 Aspen Security Forum (Aspen, CO)
Speaker: General John W. "Jay" Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force
Moderator: Mary Louise Kelly, Co-Host, All Things Considered, NPR
Speaker: Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, 7th Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Moderator: Trymaine Lee, MSNBC Correspondent
Speaker: General Charles Q. Brown, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, U.S. Air Force
Moderator: Courtney Kube, Pentagon Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: General Laura Richardson, Commander, U.S. Southern Command
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Speaker: Ambassador Qin Gang, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the U.S.
Moderator: Edward Luce, U.S. National Editor, Financial Times
Speaker: Secretary Frank Kendall, 26th Secretary, U.S. Air Force
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Speaker: William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Richard Moore, Chief of MI6, UK Secret Intelligence Service
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Speaker: Benjamin Gantz, Minister of Defense, Israel
Moderator: Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic
Speaker: Abdulla Al Khalifa, Undersecretary for Political Affairs, Bahrain
Moderator: Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic
Speaker: General Glen D. VanHerck, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command
Moderator: Steve Clemons, Founding Editor at Large, Semafor
Speaker: Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Speaker: Mark Esper, 27th Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense
Moderator: Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Speaker: Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Moderator: Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic
2021 Aspen Security Forum (In Person)
Speaker: Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator: Lester Holt, Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News
Speaker: Paul Nakasone, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Speaker: Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State
Moderator: Margaret Brennan, Moderator, Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CBS News
Speaker: Elissa Slotkin, Representative for Michigan's 8th Congressional District
Speaker: Michael McCaul, Representative for Texas' 10th Congressional District
Speaker: Bruce Andrews, Corporate VP and Chief Government Affairs Officer, Intel
Speaker: Chester "Chip" Davis, Jr., President and CEO, Healthcare Distribution Alliance
Moderator: Anja Manuel, Director, Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Richard Clarke, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
Moderator: Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Speaker: David Berger, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
Moderator: Courtney Kube, Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
2021 Aspen Security Forum (Virtual)
Speaker: Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
Moderator: Evan Osnos, Contributor, The New Yorker
Speaker: Zalmay Khalilzad, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation
Moderator: Amna Nawaz, Chief Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Speaker: Gary Gensler, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
Moderator: Paul Vigna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Speaker: Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies
Moderator: David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
Speaker: David Petraeus, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Speaker: Roya Rahmani, former Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S.
Speaker: P. Michael McKinley, former Ambassador of the U.S. to Afghanistan
Speaker: Meghan O'Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard University
Moderator: Amna Nawaz, Chief Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
2020 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
Moderator: Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Speaker: Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Speaker: John Bolton, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Moderator: Carol Lee, Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Kelly Craft, Ambassador of the U.S. to the U.N.
Moderator: Eli Lake, Opinion Columnist, Bloomberg
Speaker: Laura Rosenberger, Director, Alliance for Security Democracy, the German Marshall Fund of the United States
Speaker: Renee DiResta, Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory
Moderator: Cecilia Kang, Technology Reporter, The New York Times
Speaker: Nicholas Kristof, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Moderator: Nicholas Burns, Harvard Professor and Executive Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of China to the U.S.
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News;
Host, Andrea Mitchell Reports, MSNBC
Speaker: Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia
Moderator: Margaret Brennan, Anchor, CBS' Face the Nation
Speaker: Vivian Balakrishnan, Foreign Minister
Moderator: Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Financial Times
Speaker: Joseph Nye, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, The Financial Times
Speaker: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece
Moderator: Nicholas Burns, Harvard Professor and Executive Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Wes Moore, CEO, Robin Hood Foundation
Moderator: Dina Powell McCormick, former Deputy National Security Advisor
Speaker: Brian Hook, U.S. Special Representative for Iran
Moderator: Nick Schifrin, Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Speaker: Wendy Sherman, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Moderator: David Sanger, National Security Correspondent and Senior Writer, The New York Times
Speaker: Mark Esper, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Moderator: David McCormick, CEO, Bridgewater Associates
Speaker: David Rohde, Executive Editor, Newyorker.com
Moderator: Dina Temple-Raston, Investigations Correspondent, NPR
Speaker: Tom Donilon, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Speaker: Stephen Hadley, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Speaker: Antony Blinken, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Moderator: Gerald Seib, Executive Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Speaker: Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign
Relations
Speaker: Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow,
Claremont McKenna College
Speaker: Mike Pillsbury, Director, Center on Chinese Strategy, the Hudson Institute
Moderator: Joseph Nye, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Speaker: Audrey Tang, Digital Minister, Taiwan
Moderator: Anja Manuel, Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Shivshankar Menon, former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India
Speaker: Tanvi Madan, Director, the India Project, and Senior Fellow, Brookings
Moderator: Anja Manuel, Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: Gillian Tett, Chair of the Editorial Board and U.S. Editor-at-Large, The Financial Times
Speaker: Mark Warner, Ranking Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Moderator: David Sanger, National Security Correspondent and Senior Writer, The New York Times
Science, Solutions, and Solidarity: A Conversation with WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros, Dr. Mike Ryan,
and Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove
Speaker: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General,World Health Organization
Speaker: Mike Ryan, Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization
Speaker: Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 Technical Lead, World Health Organziation
Moderator: Lester Holt, Host, NBC Nightly News
Speaker: Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mayor of Atlanta
Speaker: Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami
Speaker: Mitch Landrieu, former Mayor of New Orleans
Moderator: Kristen Welker, White House Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Jerry Brown, Executive Chairman, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Moderator: Rachel Bronson, CEO & President, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Speaker: Mira Rapp-Hooper, Stephen A. Schwarzman Senior Fellow for Asia Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Julianne Smith, former Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden
Moderator: Nicholas Burns, Harvard Professor and Executive Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Paulo Guedes, Minister of the Economy of Brazil
Moderator: Franklin Foer, Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Speaker: Laurie Garrett, Author, The Coming Plague
Speaker: David Leonhardt, Writer, The New York Times
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Speaker: Michèle Flournoy, former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Moderator: Courtney Kube, Pentagon Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Mike Brown, Director, Defense Innovation Unit
Speaker: Kathleen Hicks, Senior Vice President; Henry A. Kissinger Chair; Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Speaker: Eric Chewning, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Speaker: Ryan Tseng, CEO and Co-Founder, Shield AI
Moderator: Anja Manuel, Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Nicholas Burns, Harvard Professor and Executive Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Anja Manuel, Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
2019 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General, NATO
Moderator: Courtney Kube, Military Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: William Reinsch, Senior Advisor and Scholl Chair in International Business, CSIS
Speaker: Susan Schwab, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Speaker: Rufus Yerxa, President, National Foreign Trade Council
Moderator: Stephanie Ruhle, Anchor, MSNBC
Speaker: Anja Manuel, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC
Speaker: Stephen Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Speaker: Tom Pritzker, Executive Chairman, Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Moderator: Edward Luce, U.S. National Editor, The Financial Times
Speaker: Farah Pandith, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Harvard University
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Speaker: Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Robert Kagan, Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, the Brookings Instiution
Speaker: Joseph Nye, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Speaker: Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America
Moderator: Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Speaker: Toomas Henrik Ilves, former President of Estonia
Speaker: Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Speaker: Kathleen Hicks, Senior Vice President and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Speaker: John McLaughlin, former Acting and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Moderator: Nicholas Burns, Harvard Professor and Executive Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Speaker: Matti Anttonen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Finland
Speaker: Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Sherri Goodman, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security)
Speaker: Karl Schultz, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard
Moderator: Jeanne Meserve, Member, Transatlantic Commission on Election Security
Speaker: Philip Davidson, Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Moderator: Nicholas Burns, Harvard Professor and Executive Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Chris Murphy, U.S. Senator for Connecticut
Moderator: Samantha Vinograd, National Security Analyst, CNN
Speaker: Jeremy Bash, Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies
Speaker: Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
Speaker: Wendy Sherman, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Moderator: Samantha Vinograd, National Security Analyst, CNN
Speaker: Tucker Bailey, Partner and Cybersecurity Practice leader, McKinsey & Company
Speaker: Mike Brown, Director, Defense Innovation Unit
Speaker: Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, Oracle
Moderator: Kara Swisher, Co-Founder, Recode
New Threats from Old Adversaries: Democracy, Misinformation,
and Cyber Campaigns
Speaker: Tom Burt, Vice President, Consumer Security and Trust, Microsoft
Speaker: Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security
Speaker: Laura Rosenberger, Senior Fellow and Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy, the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.
Speaker: Suzanne Spaulding, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs Directorate
Moderator: Shane Harris, Intelligence and National Security Reporter, The Washington Post
Speaker: Susan Rice, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Robert Ashley, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Speaker: Roya Rahmani, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S.
Speaker: Douglas Lute, former U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO
Moderator: Nick Schifrin, Foreign Affairs and Defense Corresponent, PBS NewsHour
Speaker: Jonathan Greenblatt, President, Anti-Defamation League
Speaker: Farah Pandith, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Harvard University
Speaker: Nicholas Rasmussen, former Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Moderator: Kim Dozier, Senior National Security Correspondent, The Daily Beast
Speaker: James Jeffrey, U.S. Special Representative for Syria
Moderator: Josh Rogin, Columnist, The Washington Post
Speaker: Tory Bruno, President and CEO, United Launch Alliance
Speaker: Heather Wilson, former Secretary of the Air Force
Moderator: Bryan Bender, Defense and Space Editor, Politico
Speaker: Chris Brose, Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries
Speaker: Tony Thomas, former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
Moderator: David Sanger, National Security Correspondent and Senior Writer, The New York Times
Speaker: Kelly Bissell, Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Speaker: Jeff Greene, Vice President, Global Government Affairs and Public Policy, Symantec
Speaker: Amy Hess, Executive Assistant Director, Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Moderator: Garrett Graff, Executive Director, Aspen Institute Cybersecurity & Technology Program
Speaker: John Rood, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Moderator: Catherine Herridge, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
Speaker: Charles Bruno, Director, Defense Security Cooperation Agency
Speaker: Mara Karlin, Director of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Moderator: Julian Barnes, National Security Reporter, The New York Times
Speaker: Elissa Slotkin, U.S. Representative for Michigan's 8th Congressional District
Speaker: Mac Thornberry, Ranking Member, House Armed Services Committee
Moderator: Julian Barnes, National Security Reporter, The New York Times
Speaker: Benjamin Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor
Speaker: Jong Kun Choi, Secretary to the President for Peace Planning, Republic of Korea
Speaker: Sue Mi Terry, Senior Fellow and Korea Chair, CSIS
Moderator: Ken Dilanian, National Security and Intelligence Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: John Scarlett, former Chief, British Secret Intelligence Service
Speaker: John McLaughlin, former Deputy and Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Moderator: Nicholas Burns, Harvard Professor and Executive Director, the Aspen Strategy Group
Speaker: Adam Schiff, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Moderator: Kristen Welker, White House Correspondent, NBC News
2018 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Moderator: Lester Holt, Anchor, NBC Nightly News
Speaker: Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Peter Alexander, National Correspondent, NBC News
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
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
Speaker: Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Speaker: John Rood, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Moderator: Barbara Starr, Pentagon Correspondent, CNN
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
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
Speaker: Mark Esper, Secretary of the Army
Moderator: Catherine Herridge, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
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
Speaker: Vincent Brooks, Commander, U.S. Forces Korea and Commander, ROK-US Combined Forces Command
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
Speaker: Paul Nakasone, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency
Moderator: Gordon Corera, BBC News
2017 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: John Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Pete Williams, Justice Correspondent, NBC News
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
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
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
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
Speaker: Mike Pompeo, Director, CIA
Moderator: Bret Stephens, Columnist, The New York Times
Speaker: Raymond "Tony" Thomas, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
Moderator: Catherine Herridge, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
Speaker: John Brennan, former Director, CIA
Speaker: James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Wolf Blitzer, Anchor, the Situation Room, CNN
Speaker: Daniel Coats, Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Lester Holt, Anchor, NBC Nightly News
Speaker: Joseph Dunford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
2016 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Thom Shanker, Assistant Washington Editor, The New York Times
Speaker: Joseph Votel, Commander, U.S. Central Command
Moderator: Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic, CSIS
Speaker: Elissa Slotkin, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Moderator: Massimo Calabresi, Deputy Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent, TIME Magazine
Speaker: Jennifer Cooke, Director, Africa Program, CSIS
Speaker: Carter Ham, President, Association of the U.S. Army
Speaker: Cyril Sartor, Deputy Assistant Director for Africa, CIA
Moderator: Eric Schmitt, National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
Speaker: John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security
Speaker: Michael Daly, Chief Technology Officer, Cybersecurity and Special Missions, Raytheon
Speaker: Steve Grobman, Chief Technology Officer, Intel Security Group
Speaker: Vinny Sica, Vice President, Defense and Intelligence Space Ground Solutions, Lockheed Martin
Moderator: Evan Perez, Justice Correspondent, CNN
Speaker: James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN
Speaker: Lukman Faily, Ambassador of Iraq o the U.S.
Speaker: Shibley Telhami, Nonresident Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
Moderator: Peter Bergen, National Security Analyst, CNN
Speaker: William Bratton, Commissioner, New York City Police Department
Speaker: Robert Griffin, General Manager, Safer Planet, IBM Analytics
Speaker: Peter Neffenger, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
Speaker: Michael Steinbach, Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Moderator: Shane Harris, Senior Intelligence and National Security Correspondent, the Daily Beast
Speaker: Frank Klotz, Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
Speaker: Cliff Kupchan, Chairman and Eurasia Practice Head, Eurasia Group
Speaker: Bernadette Meehan, former Spokesperson, National Security Council
Speaker: Danielle Pletka, Senior Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy, AEI
Moderator: Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
Speaker: Curtis Scaparrotti, Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander, U.S. European Command
Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Speaker: Ryan Crocker, former Ambassador of the U.S. to Afghanistan
Speaker: Hamdullah Mohib, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S.
Speaker: Rizwan Sheikh, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D.C.
Moderator: Kim Dozier, Contributing Writer, the Daily Beast
Speaker: Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, Facebook
Speaker: Ed Royce, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Speaker: George Selim, Director, Office for Community Partnerships, Department of Homeland Security
Speaker: Jessica Stern, Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
Moderator: Noah Shachtman, Executive Editor, the Daily Beast
Speaker: Karen Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham University School of Law
Speaker: Elisa Massimino, President and CEO, Human Rights First
Speaker: John Negroponte, former Director of National Intelligence
Speaker: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator: Ken Dilanian, Intelligence and National Security Reporter, NBC News
Speaker: Jane Harman, President, Director, and CEO, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Jean H. Lee, Global Fellow, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Speaker: Katharine Moon, SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies, the Brookings Institution
Moderator: Gordon Chang, Columnist, the Daily Beast
Speaker: S. Leslie Ireland, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis
Speaker: John Scarlett, former Chief, British Secret Intelligence Service
Speaker: Gregory Treverton, Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Moderator: Brian Bennett, National Security and Intelligence Reporter, The Los Angeles Times
Speaker: Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
Speaker: Nicholas Rasmussen, Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Moderator: David Sanger, National Security Correspondent and Senior Writer, The New York Times
Speaker: John Brennan, Director, CIA
Moderator: Dina Temple-Raston, Counterterrorism Correspondent, NPR
Speaker: Gilles de Kerchove, Counterterrorism Coordinator, European Union
Speaker: Marie Harf, Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Strategic Communications, Department of State
Speaker: Peter Westmacott, Former Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States
Speaker: Peter Wittig, Ambassador of Germany to the United States
Moderator: Michael Crowley, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, POLITICO
Speaker: Jay Healey, Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council
Speaker: Sean Roche, Associate Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, Central Intelligence Agency
Speaker: Patrick Walsh, Senior Vice President, iSight Partners; General Manager, ThreatSPACE
Moderator: Ryan Lizza, Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
Speaker: Jonathan Pollack, Senior Fellow, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Speaker: David Shear, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
Moderator: Gordon Lubold, Pentagon Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Speaker: Adam Schiff, Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; US Representative (D-CA)
Moderator: Greg Miller, National Security Correspondent, The Washington Post
Speaker: Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Moderator: Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute
2015 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: James Comey, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Moderator: Wolf Blitzer, Anchor, “The Situation Room,” CNN
Speaker: Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Ryan Lizza, Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
Speaker: John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force and US Forces Afghanistan
Speaker: Lukman Faily, Ambassador of Iraq to the US
Speaker: Daniel Glaser, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, Department of the Treasury
Moderator: Eric Schmitt, Senior Correspondent, The New York Times
Speaker: Michael Rogers, Director, National Security Agency; Commander, US Cyber Command
Moderator: David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times
Speaker: Joseph Votel, Commander, US Special Operations Command
Moderator: Catherine Herridge, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
Speaker: James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Lisa Monaco, Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Moderator: Mike Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
Speaker: Loretta Lynch, US Attorney General
Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
2014 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: Ray Odierno, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
Moderator: David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times
Speaker: Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security
Moderator: Dina Temple-Raston, Counterterrorism Correspondent, NPR
Speaker: Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator: Lesley Stahl, Correspondent, “60 Minutes,” CBS News
Speaker: Michael Flynn, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Moderator: Evan Pérez, Justice Reporter, CNN
2013 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: Raj De, General Counsel, National Security Agency
Speaker: Neil MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
Speaker: Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Speaker: Jeh Charles Johnson, Former General Counsel, Department of Defense; Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison
Speaker: Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
Moderator: Mike Isikoff, National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News
Speaker: Gen. Keith Alexander, Director, National Security Agency; Commander, U.S. Cyber Command
Moderator: Pete Williams, Chief Justice Correspondent, NBC News
2012 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: Admiral William McRaven, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
Moderator: Wolf Blitzer, Host, "The Situation Room," CNN
Speaker: James F. Jeffrey, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
Speaker: Stephen Cambone, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Speaker: Christopher R. Hill, Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
Moderator: Kim Dozier, Intelligence and Counterterrorism Correspondent, The Associated Press
Speaker: Lt. General (Ret.) Douglas E. Lute, Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Speaker: Eklil Hakimi, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States
Speaker: Sherry Rehman, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the U.S.
Speaker: Lt. General (Ret.) Karl Eikenberry, Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Moderator: Steve Kroft, "60 Minutes," CBS
Speaker: Raymond Kelly, Commissioner, New York Police Department
Moderator: Walter Isaacson, President & CEO, The Aspen Institute
2010 Aspen Security Forum
Speaker: John McLaughlin, former Deputy and Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Speaker: Charles Allen, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security; Principal, The Chertoff Group
Moderator: Michael Isikoff, NBC News