Past Speakers , World Affairs Council Washington D.C.

Distinguished Speakers

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The Honorable David L. Aaron, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade

Marshall P. Adair, President, American Foreign Service Association

Dr. Abdul Salam Al-Majali, Head, Jordanien Delegation to Middle East Peace Talks

H.E. Celso Amorim, Former Minister of Brazil

Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and Founder, Board Member, and Secretary, U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee

H.E. Dr. Raymond Barre, Prime Minister of France

H.E. Abdullah Yacoub Bishara, Secretary General, Gulf Cooperation Council

David Bosch, Director, Aramco Services Company

Hon. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor

Hon. Shahid Javed Burki, former Finance Minister, Republic of Pakistan and Vice President, World Bank

Lt. General Kevin P. Byrnes, USA, Ret., U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs and Director, Army's Quadrennial Defense Review Efforts.

Rt. Hon. Sir James Callaghan, British Prime Minister

H.E. Dante Caputo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Republic of Argentina

The Honorable Frank C. Carlucci, Former Secretary of Defense

H.E. Pacifico Castro, Acting Foreign Minister of the Philippines

The Honorable Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States

H.E. Isin Çelebi, Minister of State of the Economy, Republic of Turkey

Hon. A. W. Clausen, President of the World Bank

H.E. Willy de Clercq, European Community Commissioner for External Affairs

Hon. William J. Clinton, former President of the United States

General Wesley K. Clark, USA, Ret., former NATO Supreme Allied Commander

Hon. William Cohen, former Secretary of Defense

H.E. Emilio Colombo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy

Hon. Lorne Craner, former Assistant Secretary of State, Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and President, International Republican Institute

The Honorable William M. Daley, Secretary of Commerce

Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

H.E. Jiri Dientsbier, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia

Hon. Diana Lady Dougan, Center for Strategic & International Studies Chairman, Cyber Century Forum

Hon. Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary of State for Economics, Business and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State

H.E. Rolf Ekéus, Former Head of the UN Special Commission on Iraq

Hon. Gareth Evans, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia

Thomas L. Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner with The New York Times

Lt. Colonel Heinrik van der Gaag, Royal Netherlands Army, Allied Command Atlantic

John C. Gannon, Chairman, National Intelligence Council, Central Intelligence Agency

H.E. Cesar Gaviria, Secretary General of the Organization of American States

The Honorable Benjamin Gilman, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Internation Affairs

H.E. Rosario Green, Foreign Minister of Mexico

Dr. Andrew S. Grove, former Chairman, Intel Corporation

Jean-Marie Guehenno, United Nation's Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations

Dr. Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations and former Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department.

Hon. Miguel Hakim, Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Mexican States

Dr. Morton H. Halperin, Director of U.S. Advocacy, Open Society Institute and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

The Honorable Lee Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson Center

Dr. Harry Harding, former Dean, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Hon. Franklin D. Kramer, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Partner, Shea & Gardner

Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

H.E. Ismat Kittani, President, United Nations General Assembly

H.E. Alexander Kwasniewski, President of the Republic of Poland

H.E. Laszlo Kovacs, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Hungary

Dr. Anthony Lake, former U.S. National Security Advisor

Hon. Alan P. Larson, former Asst. Secretary, Department of State, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

Lord Peter Levene, Chairman of Lloyd's and General Dynamics UK Limited

H.E. Ruud F.M. Lubbers, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Hon. John F. Maisto, former Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization of American States

Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Director, U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy

Philip Merrill, former Chairman, The Washingtonian

Senator George Mitchell, Independent Chairman of the Northern Ireland Peace Talks

H.E. Peter S. Mmusi, Vice President of Botswana

Lt. Col. Cornelis Laurentius de Moel, Royal Netherlands Army, Allied Command Atlantic

H.E. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia

Dr. Lee Morin, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of State

Hon. Edmund S. Muskie , U.S. Secretary of State

Major General William L. Nash, USA, Ret., Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director, Military Fellows Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Hon. Bernard Niehaus, Foreign Minister of Costa Rica

H.R.H. Queen Noor Al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Hon. Roger Noriega, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State.

Dr. Sola Ogunbanwo, Representative of Nigeria to NFT Review Conference

The Right Honorable the Lord Owen, Former UK Foreign Secretary, Member of the House of Lords

H.E. Turgut Ozal, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey

Ambassador Ronald Dewayne Palmer, The George Washington University, Senior Associate, Global Business Ltd.

H.E. Theodoros Pangalos, Foreign Minister of Greece

Hon. Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Chairman, Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee

Hon. Thomas Pickering, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Gen. Colin L. Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

H.E. Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, Former Prime Minister of India

Hon. Ronald W. Reagan, President of the United States

Hon. Donald Rice, Secretary of the Air Force

The Honorable Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy

Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., former President and CEO, Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

The Honorable Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

H.E. Mr. Michel Rocard, Former Frime Minister of France

Dr. Miguel Angel Rodriguez, President of Costa Rica

The Honorable Stanley Roth, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs

Hon. George P. Shultz, U.S. Secretary of State

H.E. Cesar Elvir Sierra, Foreign Minister of Honduras

Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Dr. Richard Solomon, President, United States Institute of Peace

Dr. Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Director, Atlantic Council of the United States

H.E. Janez Stanovnik, President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia

Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury and former President, Harvard University

H.E. George Vassiliou, President of the Republic of Cyprus

Line Vreven, Economic Counselor, Embassy of Belgium

Hon. Vernon A. Walters, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Hon. William Webster, Director of Central Intelligence

Hon. Togo D. West, President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and former Secretary, Army and Veterans Affairs

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, USA Ret., former Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell

James D. Wolfensohn, Ninth President, World Bank

Hon. R. James Woolsey, Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton and former Director of Central Intelligence

Gen. Anthony Zinni, USA, Ret., former Commander, U.S. Central Command

H.E. Anatoliy Zlenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine