Political Figures & Public Servant Speakers

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

66th Secretary of State

Secretary of State (1997-2001)

Secretary of State (2001-2005)

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

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

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)

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

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

Celebrated Conservative Voice and Former Presidential Advisor

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

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

Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (2013–2017)

White House Chief of Staff (2001-2006)

Mayor, City of New Orleans (2010–2018)

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)

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

President, Council on Foreign Relations

Medal of Honor Recipient and Author

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

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

Senior Political Analyst, CNN

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

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

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

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

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

CIA Director (1997-2004)

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

Former Prime Minister of Canada

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Governor of Florida (1999-2007)

Visionary Conservative Leader

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (2009-2013)

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

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

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

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

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

Chairman, Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)

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

U.S. Senator (2007-2018)

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

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

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)

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)

Governor of Louisiana (2008-2016)

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

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)

Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (2013–2017)

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Trade Representative (2006-2009)

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

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

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)

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

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

Governor of New Mexico (2011-2018)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Chancellor of the Exchequer

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 of the French Republic (2012-2017)

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)

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

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

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

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

Democratic Strategist and Communications Expert