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2024

2024 Aspen Security Forum

The China Challenge

Speaker: Stephen Biegun, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State

Speaker: Alan F. Estevez, Under Secretary of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce

Speaker: Anja Manuel, Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum

Speaker: Eric Schmidt, Chair, Special Competitive Studies Project; Former CEO of Google

Moderator: Demetri Sevastopulo, U.S.-China Correspondent, Financial Times

Fireside Chat with Ng Eng Hen

Speaker: Ng Eng Hen, Minister of Defence, Singapore

Moderator: Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy

Infinity and Beyond: Space and National Security

Speaker: Lt. Gen. Jeff Kruse, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Speaker: Robert Lightfoot, President, Lockheed Martin Space; Former Associate Administrator, NASA

Speaker: Gen. Stephen Whiting, Commander, U.S. Space Command

Moderator: Loren Grush, Space Reporter, Bloomberg

Phishing, Fakes, and Fraud: Tackling Transnational Crime and Enhancing Global Security

Speaker: Brian Nelson, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Speaker: Matthew Noyes, Cyber Policy and Strategy Director, Office of Investigations, United States Secret Service

Speaker: Jürgen Stock, Secretary General, INTERPOL

Moderator: Nick Schifrin, Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

Fireside Chat with Rustem Umerov

Speaker: Rustem Umerov, Defence Minister, Ukraine (VIRTUAL)

Moderator: David Sanger, National Security and Pentagon Correspondent, NBC News

Commission on the National Defense Strategy Report Readout

Speaker: Eric Edelman, Counselor, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; Member, Commission on the National Defense Strategy 

Speaker: Jane Harman, Chair, Commission on the National Defense Strategy; Former Member of Congress 

Speaker: John "Jack" Keane, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute for the Study of War; Member, Commission on the National Defense Strategy

Speaker: Mara Rudman, James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia; Member, Commission on the National Defense Strategy

Moderator: Courtney Kube, National Security and Pentagon Correspondent, NBC News

India: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Former U.S. Ambassador to India

Speaker: Bharat Lal, Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission, India

Speaker: Daniel Twining, President, International Republican Institute

Moderator: Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy

Start Ups to the Rescue: The Next Gen Industrial Base

Speaker: Doug Beck, Director, Defense Innovation Unit and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense

Speaker: Troy Demmer, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Gecko Robotics

Speaker: Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO, Govini 

Speaker: Igor Jablokov, Founder and CEO, Pryon 

Moderator: Gordon Lubold, White House and National Security Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Fireside Chat with Roger D. Carstens

Speaker: Roger D. Carstens, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Moderator: Courtney Kube, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times

From Co to EVs: Global Energy Challenges

Speaker: Ernest J. Moniz, Co-Chair and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; 13th Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

Speaker: Meghan O’Sullivan, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University; Former Deputy National Security Advisor on Iraq and Afghanistan

Speaker: Dan Stephens, Senior Partner, McKinsey

Moderator: Steve Clemons, Contributing Editor, National Interest

Flammable World: Who Will Help the World’s Most Vulnerable?

Speaker: David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee 

Speaker: Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President and CEO, ONE Campaign

Speaker: Eileen O’Connor, Senior Vice President for Communications, Policy, and Advocacy, Rockefeller Foundation

Moderator: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, Editor, Foreign Affairs 

The Evolving Threat Landscape

Speaker: Mark Esper, 27th Secretary of Defense; Partner, Red Cell Partners Venture Capital

Speaker: Jeh Charles Johnson, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (VIRTUAL)

Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News

NATO, Europe, and Ukraine

Speaker: General Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander, United States European Command

Speaker: Jens Plötner, Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to the Chancellor, Germany

Speaker: Stefano Sannino, Secretary General, European External Action Service

Speaker: Jonatan Vseviov, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia

Moderator: Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor, The Economist

Fireside Chat with Penny Pritzker on Ukraine’s Economic Recovery

Speaker: Penny Pritzker, United States Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery, U.S. Department of State; 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce

Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News

Resilience in the Face of Transformation

Speaker: Douglas Lute, Chair, International and Defense, BGR Group; Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO 

Speaker: Liz Martin, Director, U.S. Department of Defense, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services

Speaker: Christine E. Wormuth, 25th Secretary of the Army, U.S. Army

Moderator: Gordon Lubold, White House and National Security Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Fireside Chat with General Laura Richardson on Opportunities and Challenges in the Western Hemisphere 

Speaker: General Laura Richardson, Commander, U.S. Southern Command 

Moderator: Dafna Linzer, Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News

The Future of Military Power

Speaker: Chris Brose, Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries; Former Staff Director, United States Senate Armed Services Committee

Speaker: Mara Karlin, Professor, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS; Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, U.S. Department of Defense 

Moderator: Nick Schifrin, Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

Middle East Fireside Chats with Leaders from the Region

Speaker: Salam Fayyad, Visiting Senior Scholar and Daniella Lipper Coules '95 Distinguished Visitor in Foreign Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Former Prime Minister, Palestinian Authority

Speaker: Amos Yadlin, President and Founder, MIND Israel; Former Head of Military Intelligence of Israel

Speaker: Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, National Security Advisor, Kingdom of Bahrain

Moderator: David Ignatius, Columnist, The Washington Post 

The World at Risk: Navigating Modern Threat Landscapes

Speaker: Jane Holl Lute, Former United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

Speaker: 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

Speaker: 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

Moderator: Walter Isaacson, Leonard Lauder Professor of American History and Values, Tulane University; Former President and CEO, Aspen Institute

Fortifying America’s Future: Pathways for Competitiveness

Speaker: Chike Aguh, Senior Advisor, Project on Workforce, Harvard University; Former Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor

Speaker: Bruce Andrews, Corporate Vice President and Chief Government Affairs Officer, Intel

Speaker: Robert M. Gates, Partner, Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel; 22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense; Former President, Texas A&M University

Speaker: Katie Jenner, Secretary of Education, Indiana Department of Education

Moderator: Courtney Kube, National Security and Pentagon Correspondent, NBC News

Fireside Chat with Condoleezza Rice and Robert M. Gates

Speaker: Robert M. Gates, Partner, Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel; 22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense

Speaker: Condoleezza Rice, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group; 66th U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State

Moderator: David Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times

Fireside Chat with Antony J. Blinken

Speaker: Antony J. Blinken, 71st U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State

Moderator: Mary Louise Kelly, Co-Host, All Things Considered, NPR

The View From the Senate

Speaker: Chris Coons, U.S. Senator for Delaware

Speaker: John Cornyn, U.S. Senator for Texas 

Speaker: Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senator for Alaska

Moderator: Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter, The Washington Post

Securing Trust in the Global Digital Economy: Cyber, Fraud, and Emerging Threats

Speaker: Sir Jeremy Ian Fleming, Former Director, GCHQ

Speaker: Jon M. Huntsman Jr., Vice-Chair, Mastercard; Former U.S. Ambassador to China and Russia

Speaker: Anne Neuberger, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology

Speaker: Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs, Google

Moderator: Steve Clemons, Contributing Editor, National Interest 

Fireside Chat with General CQ Brown, Jr.

Speaker: General CQ Brown, Jr., Chairman, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff 

Moderator: Jennifer Griffin, Chief National Security Correspondent, Fox News​

Denver Dialogue X ASF: The End of Soft Power?

Speaker: Joseph Nye, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group and Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

Speaker: Farah Pandith, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Special Representative to Muslim Communities, U.S. Department of State

Speaker: Kori Schake, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Speaker: Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America; Former Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State

Moderator: Dafna Linzer, Executive Vice President and Editorial Director, U.S. News and World Report

Democratic Resilience in the Age of AI

Speaker: Condoleezza Rice, Co-Chair, Aspen Strategy Group; 66th U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State

Speaker: Teresa Hutson, Corporate Vice President, Technology for Fundamental Rights, Microsoft

Speaker: Anna Makanju, Vice President, Global Affairs, OpenAI 

Moderator: Alex Ward, National Security Reporter, POLITICO

Fireside Chat with Jake Sullivan

Speaker: Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, National Security Council

Moderator: Demetri Sevastopulo, U.S.-China Correspondent, Financial Times

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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 

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 

Fireside Chat with Christo Grozev 

Speaker: Christo Grozev, Lead Russia Investigator, Bellingcat Productions

Moderator: Sharon Weinberger, National Security Editor, The Wall Street Journal

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

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

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 

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

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

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

What’s Next for Ukraine?

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


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

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

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


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

Fireside Chat with William Burns

SpeakerWilliam 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


A View From the Hill

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

Fireside Chat with Chrystia Freeland

Speaker: Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada  

Moderator: Matthew Kaminski, Editor-in-Chief, POLITICO

Fireside Chat with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (VIRTUAL)

Speaker: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

Moderator: Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN


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 

2023

2023 Aspen Security Forum

2022 Aspen Security Forum (Aspen, CO)

ASF 2022 - Aspen

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 Form (In-Person)

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

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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

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