Political Speakers

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

Co-founder, the Campaign to Fix the Debt; Former Co-chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010) and Respected Republican Leader

Secretary of State (1997-2001)

66th Secretary of State

Secretary of State (2001-2005)

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

Former President & CEO, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Information, Space and Defense Systems, and The Ford Motor Company

16th Supreme Allied Commander, NATO; Vice Chair, Global Affairs and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group; New York Times Bestselling Author

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); Best-selling Author

Motivational Speaker, Fighter Pilot, Patriotic Philanthropist, PGA Professional, Golf Course Developer, and Author, A Patriot's Calling: Living Life Between Fear and Faith and Fly Into the Wind, How to Harness Faith and Fearlessness On Your Ascent to Greatness.

First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)

Chair, The Federal Reserve System (2006-2014)

U.S. Ambassador to the UN (2017-2019); Governor of South Carolina (2011-2017)

Secretary of the Treasury (2003-2006)

Host, Tucker Carlson Tonight and Founder, The Daily Caller

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

Harvard Historian, Author, Leadership Coach

America’s Foremost Political Columnist

Best-Selling Author; Acclaimed Historian and Journalist; Professor of History, Tulane University

National Security Analyst, CBS News; Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (2004-2008)

Celebrated Conservative Voice and Former Presidential Advisor

Political Analyst, PBS NewsHour and Syndicated Columnist

Gen. Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.), President, BR McCaffrey Associates, LLC

Presidential Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author

Mayor, City of New Orleans (2010–2018)

Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (2013–2017)

The Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2016-2019)

White House Chief of Staff (2001-2006)

UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance; Governor of the Bank of England (2013-2020); Governor of the Bank of Canada (2008-2013)

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

Senior Political Commentator, CNN, and Host, The Axe Files; Director, University of Chicago Institute of Politics; Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama (2009-2011)

President, Council on Foreign Relations

Editor in Chief and Co-Founder, Recount Media; Creator and Host, The Circus on Showtime; National Affairs Analyst, NBC News and MSNBC; Co-Author, New York Times Best Sellers Game Change and Double Down

President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA (2008-2021)

Medal of Honor Recipient and Author

Obama Campaign Manager and White House Senior Advisor, Author, Non-Profit and Tech Executive

Political Icon

CEO/Editor, The Dispatch; FOX News Contributor and Author

CEO shift7, Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer (2014-2017)

First Living Medal of Honor Recipient Since the Vietnam War, Author

The Rt Hon David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010-2016)

Columnist, New York Times; Podcast host, The Ezra Klein Show; Author, “Why We’re Polarized.”

U.S. Senator (1981-2011) and Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter

Renowned Journalist; Former Moderator, NBC's Meet the Press; Political Analyst, CNN

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

Senior Political Analyst, CNN

National Political Reporter, Axios

Radio Talk Show Host, The Hugh Hewitt Show; Political Analyst and Contributor, NBC News and MSNBC; President, CEO and General Counsel of the Richard Nixon Foundation; Lawyer; Professor; Author

U.S. Secretary of Defense (2013–2015); U.S. Senator (1997–2009); Co-founder, Vanguard Cellular Systems, Inc.

Founder and Director of Defending Democracy Together; Political Analyst and Network Television Commentator

Author, The Room Where It Happened; National Security Advisor (2018-2019); U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2005-2006)

Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour

Director, CIA (2011-2012); Commander of U.S. and International Security Assistance Forces-Afghanistan (2010-2011); Partner, KKR

Anchor and Reporter ABC News and Best Selling Co-Author

CIA Director (1997-2004)

Former Prime Minister of Canada

Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist, The Washington Post and Political Analyst, MSNBC

EPA Administrator (2001-2003) and Former New Jersey Governor

Former Senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition and Executive Director, Let’s Move!; Founder, Trove; Partner, Acre Venture Partners; Author

The Honorable James A. Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State

Founder, Katie Couric Media

White House Chief of Staff (2017), Republican National Committee Chairman (2011-2017)

Prime Minister of Spain (1996-2004)

CIA Director (2013–2017); Senior National Security and Intelligence Analyst, NBC News and MSNBC

American Historian and Best-Selling Author; Presidential Historian, CNN; Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University

Women's Leadership Expert; Longtime Television News Reporter; and New York Times Best-Selling Author

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2015-2019)

Director of National Intelligence (2017– 2019), Ambassador, and Politician

Board of Directors Chairman, USA Basketball; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2011-2015)

Visionary Conservative Leader

Governor of Maryland (2007-2015); Mayor, City of Baltimore (1999-2007)

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (2009-2013)

U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009-2013), Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist and Professor, Stanford University

Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. (2009-2012); President, CareJourney

Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2010-2011) and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Legendary Anchor, ABC News' Nightline; Senior Contributor, CBS Sunday Morning Show; Contributing Columnist, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal

Political Strategist and Analyst, ABC News

Governor of Florida (1999-2007)

20th President of the University of California (2013-2020); Secretary of Homeland Security (2009-2013); Governor of Arizona (2003-2009)

U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014); Stanford Professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow; Washington Post Columnist; NBC News Analyst

Legendary ABC News' White House Correspondent (1973-2014)

U.S. Senator (2007-2018)

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (2014–2017); Director, Office of Management and Budget (2013–2014)

Anchor, Good Morning America, This Week and Chief Political Correspondent, ABC News

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

The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2007-2010) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997-2007)

Vice Chairman, The Federal Reserve System (2006-2010)

Founder, Chairman, Co-CEO, IronNet Cybersecurity; Commander, U.S. Cyber Command (2010-2014) and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service (2005-2014)

Former Prime Minister, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

U.S. Secretary of Defense (2011-2013), Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2011), Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton (1994-1997), Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1993-1994) and Co-founder, Panetta Institute for Public Policy

Chair, Council of Economic Advisers (2009-2010) and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and Contributing Editor, Bloomberg News

Governor of Louisiana (2008-2016)

Acclaimed International Journalist, Global Affairs Anchor for ABC News and Host of Amanpour on CNN International

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States (2009-2015), Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Chairman, Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)

Senior Political Contributor, CNN; Syndicated Political Talk Show Host, Columnist and Best-Selling Author

Political Analyst and Commentator, CNN

Counselor to Presidents

Managing Partner, Emerson Collective; Space Cowboy, Google X; Precourt Energy Scholar, Stanford University 

President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Vice -Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (2009-2018)

White House Press Secretary (2011-2014)

Former U.S. Senator, Olympian, NBA Hall of Famer and Best-Selling Author

Anchor and Washington Bureau Chief, CNN (1984-2009) and Director, The George Washington University's School of Media & Public Affairs

Wellness Enthusiast and Bestselling Author

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

Mervyn King (Lord King of Lothbury, KG, GBE, FBA) Governor of the Bank of England (2003-2013)

U.S. Senator (2011–2017); Attorney General of New Hampshire (2004–2009)

Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (2013–2017)

Secretary General of NATO (2009-2014) and Prime Minister of Denmark (2001-2009)

President of Purdue University; Governor of Indiana (2005-2013) and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003)

U.S. Trade Representative (2006-2009)

Co-founder, the Campaign to Fix the Debt; Former Co-chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010); President Emeritus, University of North Carolina; Former White House Chief of Staff and Former Administrator, Small Business Administration

President, European Commission (2004-2014) and Prime Minister, Portugal (2002-2004)

Secretary of Energy (2013–2017)

U.S. Secretary of Defense (2015–2017); Deputy Secretary of Defense (2011–2013)

Chairman, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (2011-2015), Host, Something to Think About with Mike Rogers, Westwood One and CNN National Security Commentator

Governor, Federal Reserve Board (2012–2014); Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (2010-2015); Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture (2009-2010); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2001-2009)

U.S. Chief Information Officer (2015-2017), CIO VMWare, Microsoft, GM and The Walt Disney Company

Host of The Richard Fowler Show, FOX News Contributor, Democratic Messaging Expert, and Millennial Engagement Specialist

Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff; Senior Advisor, The Vistria Group

Award Winning Journalist & Executive Editor of the Economic Magazine, American Consequences

Senior Correspondent, Making America Work; Former Radio Host, Bill Bennett’s Morning In America and Former Secretary of Education

Legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist/Author and Associate Editor, The Washington Post

Anchor, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°

CNN Political Commentator, Financial Market Expert and Author

Governor of New Mexico (2011-2018)

Host of The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM, Host of CNN's Smerconish and Contributor, Newspaper Columnist and Best-Selling Author

Economist; Longtime Columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Barrons and The New York Times; Speech Writer and Aide for Presidents Nixon and Ford; Emmy-winning Television Gameshow Host; Commentator for CBS News, Fox News and CNN and Award-winning Commentator on Finance

Chairman of the Republican National Committee (2009-2011), Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003-2007), MSNBC Political Analyst, and President and CEO of The Steele Group

Former White House Press Secretary; President Ari Fleischer Communications; and FOX News Contributor

43rd Treasurer of the U.S.; Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

NBC and MSNBC Legal and Law Enforcement Analyst; Senior FBI Official; United States Attorney; Head of the DEA; Host of the popular podcast, The Oath with Chuck Rosenberg

Director of Undergraduate Studies & Professor, Center for Data Science, New York University

First Lady Michelle Obama’s Chief Speechwriter (2010-2017) and Author

Commander, NORAD (May 2016-May 2018), Commander, US NORTHCOM, Commander, Pacific Air Forces (Oct 2014-May 2016)

Senior Congressional Correspondent, CNN

Presidential Historian, NBC News and PBS NewsHour, New York Times Columnist and #1 Best-Selling Author

Prime Minister of Australia (1996-2007)

Former Editor in Chief, TIME Magazine

CNN Anchor and Homeland Security Correspondent (1992-2011)

Best selling author, Raising Our Hands; National Organizer of the 2017 Women’s March; Co-Founder, ORGANIZE; Creator & Executive Producer, MTV’s “Exiled!"; Education & Media Specialist, United Nations

12th Administrator of NASA (2009 – 2017)

U.S. House of Representatives (1995-2011); Co-Founder, One Mind for Research and Founder, The Kennedy Forum on Community Mental Health

Presidential Historian and Author, ABC News Contributor and Consultant on the Presidency, and President & CEO of the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation

Yale’s First Black Student Body President

Host, History Channel’s Lost History and Brad Meltzer's Decoded; New York Times Best-Selling Author

Anchor and Journalist, MSNBC / NBC News

Creator, Executive Producer, Co-host of Showtime’s The Circus; Co-founder of the Bipartisan Group No Labels; Former Chief Media Advisor to George W. Bush and John McCain

Chancellor of the Exchequer

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)

Epidemiologist; Pathogens Preparedness Expert; Featured in Netflix Docuseries 'PANDEMIC: How to Prevent an Outbreak'

Comedian, Television Host, Author

Award-winning Journalist and Former CNN Chief White House Correspondent

Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, 3M

Award-winning Author, Columnist, On-air Commentator, and Live and Virtual-event Architect

Veteran Democratic Political Strategist; Fox News Contributor; Adjunct Professor; Author; and Syndicated Columnist

President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND Corporation

Counselor to President Donald J. Trump; Senior Advisor to House Speaker John A. Boehner; President and CEO, Data Trust.

President of Mexico (1994-2000)

President and Chief Economist of Prestige Economics; Chairman, The Futurist Institute

Director, National Counterterrorism Center (2011- 2014); National Security Analyst for ABC News; and Harvard Law School Lecturer

Expert, Influencing Using "Soft" Communication Skills

President of the French Republic (2012-2017)

Co-Founder and Principal, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel, LLC

CBS News Business Analyst

Partner, Brunswick Group; Political Commentator, CNN

Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company (1999-2005) and Best-Selling Author

National Political Reporter, Axios

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author

Former Acting Attorney General of the United States (2018-2019)

Governor of New Mexico (2003-2010), Former U.S. Energy Secretary, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Secretary General of NATO (1995-1999), High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU (1999-2009)

Co-Host, NBC's Today and MSNBC's Morning Joe

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

Political Analyst, FOX News; National Political Correspondent, NPR

Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Deputy Director of the CIA (2000-2004), and Acting Director of the CIA (2004)

Distinguished News Anchor

Stand-up Comedian and Outspoken Social Commentator

Retired Chief of FBI Behavioral Analysis Program; Best-Selling Author

Director, National Counterterrorism Center (2008 – 2011) and Counterterrorism, Cybersecurity and National Security Analyst for NBC News

Fox News Contributor, Best-Selling Author, Former U.S. Congressman (UT)

Renowned Public Opinion Researcher and Pollster

Congressman (2003-2018); House Financial Services Committee Chairman (2013-2018)

Director of Global Macro, Eurasia Group and U.S. Electoral Politics/Geopolitical Risk Management Expert

23rd Secretary of the Air Force

Pentagon Chief of Staff (2015-2017); Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Security and Homeland Defense (2013-2015)

Respected Political Analyst and Best-Selling Author

Democratic Strategist and Communications Expert