
Nicholas Burns
U.S. Ambassador to China (2021-2025)
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U.S. Ambassador to China (2021-2025)

70th Secretary of State (2018-2021), Former Director of the CIA (2017-2018)

Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (2011-2014) and of U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (2008-2011); Chancellor of the University of Texas System (2015-2018); Bestselling Author

43rd President of the United States and Founder of the George W. Bush Presidential Center

16th Supreme Allied Commander, NATO; Partner and Vice Chairman, Carlyle; Chair of the Board of Trustees, The Rockefeller Foundation; New York Times Bestselling Author; Senior Military Analyst, CNN

66th Secretary of State

CEO of RSAC; Former Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

General, US Army (Ret.); Partner, KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute; Former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan; Former Director of the CIA

U.S. Secretary of Commerce (2021-2025); 1st Female Governor of Rhode Island (2015-2021)

Prime Minister, Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1997-2007)

U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017-2018)

President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director of National Intelligence (2021–2025)

President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations and Senior Counselor, Centerview Partners

68th U.S. Secretary of State

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 2010-2016; Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 2023-2024

President and Chief Executive Officer, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) (2008-2021); Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System (1999-2006)

Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist and Chief Political Analyst, MS NOW and NBC News

Transformational Leader; Secretary of Defense (2006-2011); Bestselling Author

Walter P. Stern Chair at the Hudson Institute; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2017-2019); Governor of South Carolina (2011-2017)

CEO, MCC Global Enterprises; CNBC Contributor & CNBC’s 1st Latina Anchor

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

Former US Representative (2017-2023)

U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014); Stanford Professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow; Author of McFaul's World on Substack; MS Now Analyst

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2022-2024)
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