Past Speakers
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Dr. Toshiaki Hiromitsu
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General Charles F. Wald, U.S. Air Force (Retired)
General Charles F. Wald (USAF, Ret.) is the Chief Executive Officer of RG5 LLC (RG) and its subsidiaries, Robbins-Gioia, LLC and PM Telco, LLC. He is responsible for overseeing all of RG’s business development and operations. Read more »
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Anna Mikulska, Ph.D.
Anna Mikulska, Ph.D., is a nonresident fellow in energy studies at the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of natural gas within the EU, former Soviet Bloc and Russia. Read more »
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Ambassador Myung-Soo Ahn
Ambassador Ahn is a 40-year veteran of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. His diplomatic work has primarily focused on international and multilateral trade.
He served as Ambassador to Turkmenistan from 2011 to 2014. Ambassador Ahn retired from the Ministry in 2015, but returned to duty as a diplomat representing Korea after being appointed by President Moon Jae-in as the Consul General of Korea in Houston in April 2020.
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Kyle Bass
J. Kyle Bass is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management, an investment manager of private funds focused on global event-driven opportunities.
Mr. Bass is a founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China. Mr. Bass was the recipient of the 2019 Foreign Policy Association Medal for his responsible internationalism and is a current member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Bass has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
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Enrique de la Madrid
Enrique de la Madrid holds a Law degree from Mexico’s National Autonomous University, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
He served as Secretary of Tourism between August 2015 and November 2018. Under his administration, Mexico ranked as the 6th most visited country by foreign visitors, surpassing important destinations such as the United Kingdom and Germany.
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Valerie Hudson
Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and Holder of the George H.W. Bush Chair in the Department of International Affairs at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. In 2009, Foreign Policy Magazine named her one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers.: She is co-author of Sex and World Peace, Bare Branches, The Hillary Doctrine, and The First Political Order.
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General Robert B. Neller
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Ambassador Jonathan Addleton
Jonathan Addleton was born and raised in the mountains of northern Pakistan. A former United States Ambassador to Mongolia, he has also served as a five-time USAID Mission Director (India, Pakistan, Cambodia, Mongolia and Central Asia); USAID Representative to the European Union in Brussels; and United States Senior Civilian Representative for southern Afghanistan in Kandahar. Read more »
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Craig Allen
On July 26, 2018, Craig Allen began his tenure in Washington, DC, as the sixth President of the United States-China Business Council (USCBC), a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing over 200 American companies doing business with China. Prior to joining USCBC, Craig had a long, distinguished career in US public service. Read more »
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Dr. Shmuel Bar
Dr. Shmuel Bar is Director of Studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel and on the steering team of the annual “Herzliya Conference”. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at International Institute for Non-Proliferation Studies, an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute and has been (2007) Distinguished Koret Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Read more »
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Ambassador Rudolf Simon Bekink
Ambassador Rudolf Simon Bekink was born on Sept. 30, 1950, in Assen, a town of about 67,000 people in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. Read more »
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Ms. Reva Bhalla
Reva Bhalla, VP of Global Analysis at Stratfor, is a leading expert on Middle Eastern, South Asian and Latin American affairs and plays an integral role in applying a forward-looking, strategic lens to Stratfor’s coverage of global events.
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Dr. H. W. Brands
Henry William Brands was born in Oregon, went to college in California, sold cutlery across the American West and earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in Oregon and Texas. ~ Read more »
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Dr. Seth Center
Seth Center is senior fellow and director of the Brzezinski Institute’s Project on History and Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). His work employs a historical lens to examine the contemporary national security agenda, develop applied history findings to inform responses to future challenges, and connect diplomatic and military historians to the policy community. Read more »
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Mr. Robert Chesney
Bobby Chesney is the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas School of Law. In addition, he is the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, a University-wide research unit bridging across disciplines to improve understanding of international security issues. Read more »
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Ambassador Henry Crumpton
Ambassador Henry A. Crumpton is the founder of Crumpton Group LLC, a strategic international advisory and business development firm. CG works with global corporations, including those in the infrastructure, energy, and financial services industries. Ambassador Crumpton advises CEOs and their teams on the political, security, and commercial dynamics in emerging and frontier markets. Read more »
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Major General Meir Dagan
Major General Meir Dagan was born in 1945 to Holocaust surviving parents. He joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1963, where he served until 1996 as paratrooper and, subsequently, rose through the ranks, from company to division commander and corpus commander. In addition, MG Dagan served in various GHQ staff positions. In the 1980s he set up the Lebanon liaison unit. Read more »
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Mr. Matthew Dowd
During the past thirty years, Matthew Dowd has helped shape strategies and campaigns for CEOs, corporations, foundations, governments, candidates, and presidents. He most recently founded ListenTo.Us, a community of independently minded folks who want to bring common sense to politics. Read more »
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Pedro Morenés Eulate
Pedro de Morenés y Álvarez de Eulate, who has held many senior positions in Spain’s government, as well as working in the shipbuilding and defense industries, was named on March 24, 2017, to be his country’s ambassador to the United States. Read more »
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Ambassador Nabil Fahmy
Ambassador Nabil Fahmy was recently named Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Prior to that he was the founding Dean of the School of Public Affairs at the American University in Cairo, and the Chair of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ Middle East Project. Read more »
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Consul General Adrian Farrell
Adrian Farrell was appointed as Ireland’s first Consul General to Texas and the US southwest in 2014. The Consulate General was opened by Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny in March 2015. Farrell has worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland since 1997. Read more »
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Ms. Michele Ferenz
A native of Switzerland, Michele Ferenz has more than 15 years of experience in natural resource management, international development and conflict resolution. Prior to joining The EastWest Institute, Michele worked at UNICEF covering post-crisis and transition countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East as well as environmental sustainability. Read more »
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Mr. David J. Firestein
David J. Firestein is the Perot Fellow and EWI’s Senior Vice President for the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and Track 2 Diplomacy.
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Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer was Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1998 to 2005. His political career began in the State of Hesse where, from 1985 to 1987, he held the office of Minister for the Environment and Energy – making him the country’s first cabinet minister from the Green Party. Read more »
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Dr. George Friedman
George Friedman is an internationally recognized geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs and the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures. Read more »
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Rob Gardner
Rob Gardner
Manager, Economics & Energy Division
Corporate Strategic Planning Department
Exxon Mobil Corporation
In Rob’s over 40 years in the industry, he has managed both Gas and Gas Liquid businesses in the United States. Read more »
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Dr. Thomas Garza
Thomas Jesús Garza (B.A. Haverford College; M.A. Bryn Mawr College; Ed.D. Harvard University) is UT Regents’ and University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Director of the Texas Language Center at the University of Texas, where he has received more than a dozen teaching awards during his 28-year tenure. Read more »
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Ambassador Tony Garza
Former U.S. Ambassador, lawyer, distinguished public servant, and cross-border specialist Antonio Garza brings exemplary diplomatic, business, and political expertise to his work. By virtue of his position with White & Case and Vianovo Ventures, Ambassador Garza is uniquely positioned to assist corporations in navigating complex legal, cultural and political landscapes in Mexico, Latin America and the U.S.
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Ambassador Ramón Gil-Casares Satrústegui
Ramón Gil -Casares Satrústegui is Spain’s Ambassador to the United States. Born in Madrid on October 26th, 1953. He entered the Foreign Service in May 1982. Between 1982 and 1996 he worked in the Spanish Embassies of Equatorial Guinea and Uruguay, and in Spanish Consulates in Manila and New York, as well as in the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation in Madrid. Read more »
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Ambassador Carlos González Gutiérrez
Ambassador Carlos González Gutiérrez is the Consul General of Mexico in Austin since May 1st, 2015. As a career diplomat since 1987, Ambassador González Gutiérrez has specialized in Mexican communities in the US, as all of his designations abroad have been in the US. Read more »
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Dr. Russell A. Green
Russell A. Green, Ph.D., is the Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He is also an adjunct professor in the Economics Department, where he teaches international finance and macroeconomics. Green’s current research focuses on financial market development in emerging market economies, financial inclusion and Indian developmental challenges. Read more »
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Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo
Mr. Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, on April 19, 1957. He obtained his B.A. in Economics at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, and later did graduate studies in economics at Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Pennsylvania (EBD). Read more »
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Secretary Gloria Guevara
Ms. Guevara was appointed Secretary of Tourism by President Felipe Calderón on March 10, 2010. A few days later, she was also designated Director General of the Mexican Tourist Board. In November 2005, she was appointed Vice President and Director General of Sabre Travel Network, Mexico. Sabre Travel Network is a leading firm in the world of reservations, technology and travel. Read more »
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Ms. Karen Elliott House
Karen Elliott House retired in March 2006 as Publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Senior Vice President of Dow Jones & Company, and a member of the company’s executive committee. She is a broadly experienced business executive with particular expertise and experience in international affairs stemming from a distinguished career as a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and editor. Read more »
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Ambassador Robert Hutchings
Robert Hutchings is dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the LBJ School in March 2010, Hutchings was Diplomat in Residence in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Read more »
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Dr. William Charles Inboden III
William Inboden is Executive Director of the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin. He also serves as Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Read more »
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Admiral Bob Inman
Admiral Bob Inman graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1950, and from the National War College in 1972. He became an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. He was appointed as a tenured professor holding the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy in August 2001. Read more »
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Mr. Nathaniel Karp
Nathaniel Karp was appointed BBVA chief U.S. economist in 2004 to assist the Group’s management in the expansion strategy in the U.S. market. His main responsibilities are conducting in-depth analyses of macroeconomic variables, monetary policy, and regional and industry trends for BBVA Compass. Karp reports to President and CEO Manolo Sánchez. Read more »
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Dr. Alan Kessler
Alan Kessler is a Resident Intelligence Officer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. As an officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis (DA), he drafted a wide range of analytic products on strategic communications to support US public diplomacy and developed new methods to assess the effectiveness of technical collection platforms for senior intelligence community and policy customers. Read more »
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Mr. Hilal Khashan
Hilal Khashan is a Professor of Political Science at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of six books and more than 150 articles. His most recent book is titled Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019; the paperback version will be published in June 2021). Read more »
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Brigadier Tim Lai
Tim Lai was born in Paris, France in 1963, to parents in diplomatic service. He grew up in New York, Geneva and London, and was educated at the Montesori School in Manhattan, the Êcole Internationale de Genève and Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire. He completed a Masters degree at St Andrews University, during which time he spent summers working in industry, city banking and local government. Read more »
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Dr. Phil Levy
Phil Levy is senior fellow on the global economy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Previously he was associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He was formerly a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and taught at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Read more »
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Ambassador Lewis Lucke
Ambassador Lewis Lucke is Executive Director of Daroke Resources LLC www.daroke.com brokering US and international investment into developing countries in Africa and Latin America, especially infrastructure project such as affordable housing, mining, renewable energy and power production. Read more »
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Senator Dick Lugar
Senator Lugar recently retired after six terms as the 17th longest serving Senator in U.S. history. He is a past chairman of both the Agriculture Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. He served continuously as Chairman or Ranking Member of one of those Committees from 1985 until 2013. Read more »
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Congressman Michael McCaul
Congressman Michael T. McCaul is currently serving his fifth term representing Texas’ 10th District in the United States Congress. On January 3, 2013, the beginning of the 113th Congress, Rep. McCaul became Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Read more »
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Sir Jim McLay
Sir Jim McLay is special adviser to Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully, special envoy for Prime Minister John Key and accredited as New Zealand’s representative to the Palestinian Authority. Formerly New Zealand’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Read more »
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Secretary José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
José Antonio Meade Kuribreña is the Finance Minister of Mexico and the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. Minister Meade was born in Mexico. He received a degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; a Law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and a PhD in Economics from Yale University. Read more »
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Dr. Rabi Mohtar
Dr. Rabi Mohtar is the TEES Endowed Professor at Texas AM University, College Station, USA. He is the Founding Director of Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) a member of Qatar Foundation, Research and Development and the Founding Director Strategic Projects at Qatar Foundation Research and Development. Read more »
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Mr. John Edwin Mroz
John Edwin Mroz is the President and CEO of the EastWest Institute, a leading international policy organization founded in 1980 to focus on collaborative and practical responses to the most critical threats to global peace and stability. EWI is known for its action bias and results-driven mandate, its fierce independence, and recognized track-record of building trust and fostering collaborative teams which generate practical solutions. Read more »
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Ambassador Cameron Munter
Cameron Munter has been a career diplomat, serving in some of the most conflict-ridden areas of the globe. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan from 2010-2012, where he guided U.S.-Pakistani relations through a strained period, including the operation against Osama bin Laden, while leading a 2,500-employee embassy. Read more »
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Mr. Andrew Natsios
Andrew S. Natsios is an executive professor and director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs. Natsios was most recently a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and former administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Read more »
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Dr. Shannon K. O’Neil
Shannon O’Neil is the Douglas Dillon fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her expertise includes U.S.-Latin American relations, energy policy, trade, political and economic reforms, and immigration. Read more »
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Ambassador Andrew Peacock
Andrew Peacock was born February 13, 1939 in Melbourne and attended Scotch College and the University of Melbourne. He was elected President of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1965 – the youngest person to ever hold that position.In 1966, following the retirement of Sir Robert Menzies, Peacock was elected as the Member for Kooyong in the House of Representatives. Read more »
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General Harry D. Raduege
Lieutenant General Harry D. Raduege, Jr. (USAF, Ret) is Chairman of the Center for Cyber Innovation, Senior Advisor, & Director for Cyber Risk Services for Deloitte & Touche LLP where he works globally with clients across government and industry in reducing risk to their business and mission operations due to cyber attacks and other unauthorized intrusions. Read more »
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Mr. Luis Robles Miaja
Mr. Luis Robles Miaja is Chairman of the Board of Directors of BBVA Bancomer and President of the Mexican Banking Association (ABM), he is also a prominent lawyer with extensive experience and recognition in the financial and banking sectors in Mexico. Read more »
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Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph D. Stafford, III
Ambassador Joseph D. Stafford, III was a career Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, who assumed the position of Charge’ d’ Affaires, (Defacto Ambassador) at the Embassy of the United States Khartoum, Sudan before he retired in February of this year. He may be best known from ARGO, the Oscar winning film by Ben Affleck about his escape from Iran after the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy. Read more »
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Ambassador Elin Suleymanov
In October of 2011, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev appointed Elin Suleymanov as Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to the United States of America. Prior to that, for over five years, Mr. Suleymanov had been the nation’s first Consul General to Los Angeles and the Western States leading the team, which established Azerbaijani diplomatic presence on the West Coast. Read more »
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Dr. Jeremi Suri
Dr. Jeremi Suri has a joint appointment in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the University of Texas at Austin Department of History. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, and Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America’s “Top Young Innovators” in the Arts and Sciences in 2007. Read more »
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Dr. Julia Sweig
Dr. Julia Sweig is the former Senior Fellow for Latin America at the Council on Foreign Relations, Expert on Cuba. Her scholarship and policy innovation on Cuba helped lay the groundwork for President Obama’s current policy initiative. Read more »
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Mr. Reggie Thompson
Reggie Thompson serves as a Latin America analyst, focusing on political and security developments in Latin American and Caribbean at Stratfor. Particular areas of concentration include, Latin American drug trafficking and security issues, along with Venezuelan and Mexico domestic and foreign policy relations. Read more »
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Congressman Javier Treviño
Javier Treviño is a Member of Mexico’s Congress (Diputado Federal, State of Nuevo León, Institutional Revolutionary Party – PRI). He serves as secretary of the Energy Committee and of the Finance Committee, and he is a member of the Migratory Affairs Committee and of the Special Committee on Information and Communication Technologies. Read more »
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Ambassador Chase Untermeyer
Chase Untermeyer has been an international business consultant since returning in 2007 from Qatar, where he served three years as United States ambassador on appointment of President George W. Bush.
Ambassador Untermeyer has held both elected and appointed office at all four levels of government – local, state, national, and international – over a 40- year period, with work in journalism, academia, and business as well. Read more »
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Dr. Yanis Varoufakis
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who previously held the position of Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, and Economist-in-residence for Valve Corporation, is the author of The Global Minotaur. Read more »
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Larry Wright
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He is a graduate of Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the American University in Cairo, where he taught English and received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics in 1969. Read more »
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Mr. Mark Wynne
Mark Wynne is a vice president, associate director of Research and director of the Bank’s Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In the latter role, Wynne is responsible for developing and leading the Bank’s research program on globalization and understanding its implications for the conduct of U.S. monetary policy. Read more »
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He Yafei
Ambassador He Yafei (Ambassador He is pronounced like “Who”) is an experienced Chinese diplomat who was Deputy Director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. Moreover, he was Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, representing the People’s Republic of China during the negotiations of the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009. Read more »
Photos from Past Events
Valerie Hudson
General Robert B. Neller
Admiral Bobby Inman
Fred Burton – What’s Next with Iran??
Katherine Tobin
Ildefonso Guajardo
Ambassador Larry E. André, Jr.
Dr. Arthur Ding
Ambassador Tony Garza with James Taylor
Rob Gardner
Alexis Andres
Dr. Jeremi Suri
Dr. George Friedman
He Yafei
Pedro Morenés Eulate
Chancellor William McRaven
János Csák and Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy
Bill Brands
Ambassador Jonathan Addleton
Chase Untermeyer
Matthew Dowd
Magistrate Manuel González Oropeza
Secretary Manpreet Anand
Robert Chesney and William Inboden
Ambassador Cameron Munter
David J. Firestein
Larry Wright
Chairman Michael McCaul
Mr. Luis Robles Miaja
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov
Consul General Adrian Farrell
Ambassador Cameron Munter
Secretary José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
Ambassador Jim McLay
Ambassador Ramón Gil-Casares Satrústegui
General Harry D. Raduege
Ambassador Lewis Lucke
Engagement versus Isolation: the U.S. and Cuba at a Crossroads
Ambassador Joseph D. Stafford, III
Major General Meir Dagan
Ambassador Henry Crumpton
Andrew Natsios
John Mroz – A World in Rapid Change: A Global Insiders Perspective on 2014
Dr. Phil Levy
Michele Ferenz and Dr. Rabi Mohtar
Congressman Javier Treviño
Mark Wynne
Ambassador Andrew Peacock
Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo
Senator Dick Lugar
l to r: Senator Dick Lugar, Ambassador Andrew Peacock, Ben Turner, Jack Gray
Senator Dick Lugar and Dr. Jeremi Suri
Nancy Inman with Senator Dick Lugar (center) and Admiral Bob Inman
l to r: Tom Granger, Ben Turner, Geoff Connor, Senator Dick Lugar, Ambassador Lewis Lucke, Ambassador Rosalba Ojeda
l to r: Ambassador Pam Willeford, Elizabeth Christian, Ambassador Rosalba Ojeda
l to r: Tom Granger, Admiral Bob Inman, Senator Dick Lugar