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Open Forum Speakers: 2000 - Present

Abu-Nimer, Muhammad, American University

Ackerman, Peter, Chair, International Center for Nonviolent Conflict

Akukwe, Chinua, The George Washington University; Constituency for Africa, Board of Directors

Allen, Claude, Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services

Al-Marayati, Salam, Executive Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council

Altman, Drew E., The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Asali, Ziad J., President, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

Bahr, Morton, Communications Workers of America

Basso, Peter "Jack", former Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs, U.S. Department of Transportation

Bingaman, Jeff, United States Senate (D-NM)

Bloom, Barry, Harvard School of Public Health

Blount, Stephen B., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Campbell, John, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Human Resources

Carlucci, Frank C., Chairman, Independent Task Force on State Department Reform

Cheney, Elizabeth, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs

Chow, Jack C., U.S. Department of State

Christensen, Thomas J., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Clark, Wesley K., U.S. Army (Retired)

Clarke, John, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Coates, Thomas J., University of California, San Francisco

Comras, Victor, retired from the Foreign Service, coordinated the international enforcement of sanctions against Serbia

Crawford, Lester M., Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Cuellar, Henry, former Secretary of State, State of Texas

Dangermond, Jack, President and Founder, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)

Davis, Joyce, Knight Ridder Newspapers

Dellums, Ronald, Constituency for Africa

Diamond, Larry, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Djerejian, Edward P., Former Ambassador

Dobriansky, Paula J., Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Douglas, Richard J., Chief Republican Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Ebel, Robert, Director, Energy and National Security, Center for Strategic and International Affairs

Edmonds, Jae, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington Office

Evans, Donald, Secretary of Commerce

Evertz, Scott, former Director, White House Office on National AIDS Policy

Feachem, Richard G.A., Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Finckenauer, James O., National Institute of Justice-International Center, U.S. Department of Justice

Frist, Bill, United States Senator, TN

Fuerth, Leon, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Gaffney, Frank J., Director, Center for Security Policy

Gardner, Richard N., Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius

Gayle, Helene, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

George, Terry, Film Director and Screen Writer

Glendening, Parris N., former Chairman, National Governors Association

Godson, Roy, President, National Strategy Information Center

Goodall, Jane, Primatologist

Goodby, James E., The Brookings Institution

Green, Kass, President, Space Imaging Solutions, Inc.

Grossman, Marc, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Hagel, Chuck, U.S. Senator, (R-NE)

Hamburg, Margaret, Nuclear Threat Reduction Initiative

Harding, Harry, Dean, The George Washington University Elliott School of Intl. Affairs

Harmon, Christopher C., Professor of International Relations, Marine Corps Command and Staff College

Harnisch, Christoph, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Hathout, Maher, Muslim Public Affairs Council

Hayes, Stephen, Corporate Council on Africa

Holbrooke, Richard C. (via video)

Iglesias, Enrique, President, Inter-American Development Bank

James, Makila, Policy Planning Staff Member

Johnstone, L. Craig, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Jolie, Angelina, Goodwill Ambassador to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Juma, Calestous, Harvard University Center for International Development

Kalathil, Shanthi, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Kallstrom, James K., Director, New York State Office of Public Security

Kaplan, Robert D., Atlantic Monthly

Katz, Mark N., George Mason University

Kerr, Vincent E., Ford Motor Company

Kirby, Chris, Kenya National AIDS Council and Global Business Coalition

Klein, Morton A., President, Zionist Organization of America

Kristol, William, Chairman of the Project for the New American Century; editor, The Weekly Standard; media commentator

La Montagne, John R., National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Leathers, Kim, Howard University School of Divinity

Lenchner, Charles, Jewish Unity for a Just Peace

Lisboa-Farrow, Elizabeth, Chair, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, President and Chief Executive Officer, LISBOA, Inc

Lubbers, Ruud, UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Luks, Harold P., Chairman, NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia

Mandelbaum, Michael, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Manning, Lory, USN (retired)

Marks, G. Lynn, GlaxoSmithKline

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

McKeon, Brian P., Chief Democratic Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Miller, Aaron, Dr., President, Seeds of Peace Organization

Miller, John R., Ambassador, Director, Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons

Myers, Richard B., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Natsios, Andrew S., Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

Newman, Connie, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs

Oakley, Robert National Defense University, Institute for International Strategic Studies

Obayuwana, Alphonsus, Association of Scientists and Physicians of African Descent

Olcott, Martha Brill, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Ottaway, Marina, Dr., Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Owens-Kirkpatrick, Barbro, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Niger

Pace, Peter, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Palmer, Mark, Ambassador, Author, Breaking the Real Axis of Evil

Perry, William J., former U.S. Secretary of Defense; Stanford University

Petersen, John, President, Arlington Institute

Peterson, E. Anne, U.S. Agency for International Development

Phillips, James, Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Pineau, Carol, Film Director

Pipes, Daniel, Director, Middle East Forum

Pollack, Kenneth, Brookings Institution

Powell, Colin L., Secretary of State

Priest, Dana, Military Affairs Correspondent, The Washington Post

Prosper, Pierre, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues

Robbins, James S., Professor of International Relations, National Defense University

Rossello, Pedro, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Sachs, Jeffrey D., Columbia University, Earth Institute

Satcher, David, 16th Surgeon General of the United States

Schneier, Arthur, President, Appeal of Conscience Foundation

Sciolino, Elaine Senior Writer, The New York Times

Sherjan Samad, Hassina, Executive Director of Afghanistan Libre

Shine, Kenneth, President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

Shoemaker, Jolynn, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

Simmons, Emmy, U.S. Agency for International Development

Slater, Eve E., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Slater, Rodney, former Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation

Soros, George, International Philanthropist, Financier, Author, Sage. Founder of the "Open Society Fund."

Steele, Robert David, CEO of OSS.NET

Steinberg, Donald K., Deputy Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State


Thomas-Greenfield, Linda, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureaus of Population, Refugees and Migration

Venter, J. Craig, President and Chief Scientific Officer, Celera Genomics Corporation

Watkins, James D., USN (Retired), President Emeritus, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE)

Wedel, Janine, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh and Fellow, National Institute of Justice

Weldon, Curt (7th-PA), U.S. House of Representatives

William Makgoba, Malegapuru, Medical Research Council of South Africa

Williams, Richard, Church World Service

Williams, Yvonne, American Red Cross

Wilson, Phill, African American AIDS Policy and Training Institute

Wood, William B., The Geographer and Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State

Zogby, James J., President, Arab American Institute

Zogby, John, President and CEO of Zogby International


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