Vijay Prashad

Historian, Journalist & Author; Director of Tricontinental Institute & Chief Editor of LeftWord Books

Safiya Ghori-Ahmad

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

Ellen Knickmeyer

Foreign Policy and National Security Reporter for the Associated Press

Zarghuna Kargar

Afghan Born Award-Winning Journalist for BBC World News

Nazira Karimi

Afghan Reporter & Journalist

John W. Nicholson Jr.

Commander of American & NATO Forces in Afghanistan 2016-2018

James B. Cunningham

American Diplomat; Nonresident Senior Fellow in the South Asia Center; Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan

Joseph Krauss

Middle East Correspondent for Associated Press

Carter Malkasian

Historian, Author, Former Civilian Advisor in Iraq & Afghanistan

Clarissa Ward

Journalist & Chief International Correspondent for CNN

Fatimah S Baeshen

Public Figure & Author

Samantha Karlin

CEO of Empower Global

Nury Turkel

Commissioner at US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Amna Nawaz

Senior National Correspondent for PBS NewsHour

Elise Labott

Columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine; Founder of Twopoint.0 Media

Josep Colomer

Political Scientist & Economist; Professor at Georgetown University

Book Talk: “Constitutional Polarization" by Josep Colomer

David Runciman

Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

Author & Journalist; Editor of Foreign Affairs; Peter G. Peterson Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations

Mike Hayes

Managing Director of Insight Partners; Former Director of Defense Policy & Strategy at the National Security Council; Former Navy SEAL & Author of "Never Enough"

Anthony Moffett

Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Evan Greenberg

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Chubb Limited and Chubb Group

Yinuo Li

Director of China Country Office of the Gates Foundation

Elizabeth Shackelford

Former U.S. Diplomat & Author

Ilona Kickbusch

Founder & Chair at Global Health Program, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva

Jake Sullivan

National Security Adviser in the Biden Administration; Policymaker & Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Paul A. Kramer

Historian & Writer

Vivian Bercovici

Columnist for The Jerusalem Post & Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel

Michael Auslin

Award-winning Author, Historian & Geopolitical Analyst

Casey Fleming

Chairman & CEO of BlackOps Partners

Christopher Balding

Associate Professor at the Fulbright University Vietnam, Leading Expert on the Chinese Economy & Financial Markets