Political Speakers

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

Secretary of State (1997-2001)

66th Secretary of State

Presidential Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning Author

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

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

Political Analyst and Commentator, CNN

Political Icon

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.

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

Host, Tucker Carlson Tonight and Founder, The Daily Caller

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

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

America’s Foremost Political Columnist

Political Analyst, PBS NewsHour and Syndicated Columnist

Chair, The Federal Reserve System (2006-2014)

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

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

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

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

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

Medal of Honor Recipient and Author

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

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

Celebrated Conservative Voice and Former Presidential Advisor

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

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

Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (2013–2017)

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

White House Chief of Staff (2001-2006)

Senior Political Analyst, CNN

Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour

Harvard Historian, Author, Leadership Coach

National Political Reporter, Axios

First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)

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

Founder, Katie Couric Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CIA Director (1997-2004)

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

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

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

Mayor, City of New Orleans (2010–2018)

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

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

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

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

President, Council on Foreign Relations

Former Prime Minister of Canada

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

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

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

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

Secretary of the Treasury (2003-2006)

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

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

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

Governor of Florida (1999-2007)

Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (2013–2017)

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

Prime Minister of Spain (1996-2004)

Anchor and Reporter ABC News and Best Selling Co-Author

U.S. Senator (2007-2018)

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

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

Former Prime Minister, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

Visionary Conservative Leader

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

Wellness Enthusiast and Bestselling Author

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

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

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

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

Political Strategist and Analyst, ABC News

Chairman, Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Governor of Louisiana (2008-2016)

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

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (2009-2013)

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

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

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

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

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

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

White House Press Secretary (2011-2014)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Counselor to Presidents

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

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

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

Secretary of Energy (2013–2017)

U.S. Trade Representative (2006-2009)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

CNN Political Commentator, Financial Market Expert and 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

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

Anchor, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°

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

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

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

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

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

CBS News Business Analyst

Governor of New Mexico (2011-2018)

Senior Congressional Correspondent, CNN

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

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

Political Analyst, FOX News; National Political Correspondent, NPR

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

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)

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

CNN Anchor and Homeland Security Correspondent (1992-2011)

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

Prime Minister of Australia (1996-2007)

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

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

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

Comedian, Television Host, Author

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author

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

President of the French Republic (2012-2017)

Expert, Influencing Using "Soft" Communication Skills

President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND Corporation

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

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

National Political Reporter, Axios

Award-winning Journalist and Former CNN Chief White House Correspondent

Anchor and Journalist, MSNBC / NBC News

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

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

Distinguished News Anchor

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

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

12th Administrator of NASA (2009 – 2017)

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

Stand-up Comedian and Outspoken Social Commentator

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

Former Editor in Chief, TIME Magazine

23rd Secretary of the Air Force

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

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

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

Partner, Brunswick Group; Political Commentator, CNN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Renowned Public Opinion Researcher and Pollster

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

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

CNBC Anchor at Large

President of Mexico (1994-2000)

Respected Political Analyst and Best-Selling Author

Democratic Strategist and Communications Expert