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Previous Speakers

Previous Speakers

2018

Col. Jack Jacobs (Ret., USA)
Medal of Honor Recipient and NBC News Consultant

2013

R. Nicholas Burns
Former American Diplomat and Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government

2010

Frederick Kempe
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Atlantic Council of U.S.

2009

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former national security advisor

2008

John W. Warner
Former United States Senator from Virginia

2006

Mary Robinson
Former president of Ireland
"Human Rights in the 21st Century"

1994

James Schlesinger
Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy

1991

Thomas Pickering
Ambassador to the United Nations and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

1989

Seymour Hersh
Investigative Journalist and Pulitzer Prize Winner

1988

John Anderson
U.S. Congressman and Executive Director of Council for National Interest

1987

George McGovern
U.S. Senator


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