Ambassador Eric S. Rubin

Retired Senior Diplomat & Negotiator, Foreign Affairs Analyst and Commentator

Shabnam Nasimi

Former Policy Advisor to Minister for Afghan Resettlement & Minister for Refugees, Social & Political Activist; Founder, Executive Director of the Conservative Friends of Afghanistan

Safiya Ghori-Ahmad

South Asia Director at McLarty Associates; Former Political-Military Team Leader at the Office of the Special Representative to Afghanistan & Pakistan

Mark S. Zaid

Attorney

Jonathan Schanzer

Senior Vice President for Research at Foundation of Defense for Democracies

Trita Parsi

President of the National Iranian American Council & Author of Several Award-Winning Books on US Foreign Policy

Chuck Freilich

Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor

Marian L. Tupy

Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Jed Babbin

Military & Foreign Affairs Analyst, Former Deputy Undersecretary & Author

Nick Schifrin

Foreign Affairs & Defense Correspondent for PBS NewsHour

AAD Monticello Annual Conference 2021 Keynote Address by Nick Schifrin

Jeremy Cliffe

Berlin Bureau Chief for The Economist

Peter van Agtmael

Author & Documentary Photographer

Zakaria Fellah

Former Ambassador of the Cote d’Ivoire; Co-Founder and CEO, International Development

Yochi Dreazen

Deputy Managing Editor & Foreign Editor of Vox; Author of "The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War"

Bruce Hoffman

Professor at Georgetown University & Visiting Senior Fellow for The Council on Foreign Relations