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

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

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.

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

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

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

Host, Tucker Carlson Tonight and Founder, The Daily Caller

Political Analyst, PBS NewsHour and Syndicated Columnist

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

Celebrated Conservative Voice and Former Presidential Advisor

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

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

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

Chair, The Federal Reserve System (2006-2014)

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

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

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

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

America’s Foremost Political Columnist

National Political Reporter, Axios

Medal of Honor Recipient and Author

Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (2013–2017)

Founder, Katie Couric Media

Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Political Analyst, CNN

Harvard Historian, Author, Leadership Coach

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

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

White House Chief of Staff (2001-2006)

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

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

First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Former Prime Minister of Canada

President, Council on Foreign Relations

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

U.S. Senator (2007-2018)

CIA Director (1997-2004)

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

Governor of Florida (1999-2007)

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

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

Former Prime Minister, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Anchor and Reporter ABC News and Best Selling Co-Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visionary Conservative Leader

Wellness Enthusiast and Bestselling Author

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

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)

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

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

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

Chairman, Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)

Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (2013–2017)

Governor of Louisiana (2008-2016)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Secretary of the Treasury (2003-2006)

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

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

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

Political Strategist and Analyst, ABC News

White House Press Secretary (2011-2014)

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

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

Counselor to Presidents

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

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

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

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

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

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (2009-2013)

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

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

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

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

Secretary of Energy (2013–2017)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

CNN Political Commentator, Financial Market Expert and Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Commander, NORAD and and Commander, US Northern Command (May 2016-May 2018), Commander, Pacific Air Forces (Oct 2014-May 2016)

CBS News Business Analyst

Political Analyst, FOX News; National Political Correspondent, NPR

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

Anchor, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°

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

Senior Congressional Correspondent, CNN

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

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)

Governor of New Mexico (2011-2018)

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

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

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author

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

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

CNN Anchor and Homeland Security Correspondent (1992-2011)

Prime Minister of Australia (1996-2007)

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

Comedian, Television Host, Author

Distinguished News Anchor

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

National Political Reporter, Axios

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

Expert, Influencing Using "Soft" Communication Skills

Award-winning Journalist and Former CNN Chief White House Correspondent

President of the French Republic (2012-2017)

Chancellor of the Exchequer

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

12th Administrator of NASA (2009 – 2017)

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

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

Anchor and Journalist, MSNBC / NBC News

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

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

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

President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND Corporation

Stand-up Comedian and Outspoken Social Commentator

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

America’s 1st Female Combat Fighter Pilot; U.S. Senator and Representative (2015-2020); Author

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

Partner, Brunswick Group; Political Commentator, CNN

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

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

CNBC Anchor at Large

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

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

23rd Secretary of the Air Force

Renowned Public Opinion Researcher and Pollster

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

Former Editor in Chief, TIME Magazine

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

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

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

President of Mexico (1994-2000)

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

Respected Political Analyst and Best-Selling Author

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

Democratic Strategist and Communications Expert