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First Secretary of U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Former Governor of Pennsylvania; Chairman, Ridge Global
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First Secretary of U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Former Governor of Pennsylvania; Chairman, Ridge Global

Founder, Crooked Media, Host of Pod Save America; Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama (2009-2013)

Distinguished Statesman, Secretary of Defense (1997-2001) and CEO, The Cohen Group

Former National Security Senior Fellow, Senior Fellow for Global Risks at the Center for the National Interest; State Department Diplomacy Consultant (2006-2023); Expert on Geopolitical Risk, Global Affairs, and American Politics

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO

President of World Bank (2019-2023); U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs (2017-2019); Leading Wall Street Analyst; Economic Columnist

Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University; Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

Dr. Andy Baker, Deputy National Security Advisor (2025-26) and National Security Advisor to JD Vance (2023-2026)

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (2021-2025)

Director of the Indo-Pacific Policy Lab, Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute; Deputy Chief of Reserve China Global Strategy, the Pentagon; Nonresident scholar, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Veteran political correspondent; Fellow, American University’s SINE Institute of Policy and Politics; Host of “The Tara Palmeri Show”; Author of “The Red Letter” on Substack

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow

Anchor, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°

Best-Selling Author and Renowned Futurist

Sir William Browder KCMG; Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign; CEO Hermitage Capital Management; Author of Two Best-sellers: Freezing Order and Red Notice

European Union’s Ambassador to the United States (2010-2014), United Nations (2015-2019), and the United Kingdom (2020 -2022); Chief of Staff to the President of the European Commission

Prime Minister of Australia (1996-2007)

NBC News and MSNBC National Security Analyst and Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense (2011-2013) and Chief of Staff to the Director of the CIA (2009-2011)

Pioneer Emerging Market Business Investment Practitioner Unlocking Growth Opportunities While Shielding Risks; Private Equity Executive; White House Trade Negotiator; Harvard Faculty; Author; Columnist

Former President of the Republic of Colombia (2018 – 2022)

Former Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment (2021-2025); Award-winning International Lawyer; Public Company Director; Dartmouth College Trustee

Distinguished News Anchor

Senior Congressional Reporter, Punchbowl News

Historian; Author, Globalization: A Key Idea for Business and Society
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