Past Events
Council Speakers
Foreign Ambassadors
Ambassador Thomas Pickering
Ambassador Herman J. Cohen
Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann
Ambassador Jesus Silva-Herzog
Ambassador Shunji Yanai
The Honorable David Ivry
Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger
Ambassador Kunihiko Saito
Minister Counselor Dai Yunlou
Ambassador T.P. Sreenivasan
Dr. Shafeeq Ghabra
Ambassador Raymond Chrétien
Ambassador Marwan Jamil Muasher
The Honorable Sheila Sisulu
Ambassador Volkan Vural
Alain de Keghel
Ambassador François Bujon de l’Estang
Colonel Tang Pusheng
The Honorable Li Zhaoxing
Ambassador Naresh Chandra
The Honorable Hasan Abdel Rahman
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed
Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer
Ambassador Mohammed Mahallati
Ambassador Sir David Manning
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Lenny Ben-David
Ambassador to Russia, India, and the UN
Ambassador to Gambia and Senegal
Ambassador to Afghanistan, Bahrain, and Algeria
Ambassador of Mexico
Ambassador of Japan
Vice President, Boeing International
Ambassador of Israel
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ambassador of Japan
Republic of China
Ambassador of India
Director, Information Office, Kuwait
Ambassador of Canada
Ambassador of Jordan
Deputy Executive Director, World Food Programme
Ambassador of South Africa
Ambassador of Turkey
Consul General of France
Ambassador of France
Attaché for the Chinese Embassy
Foreign Minister, China
Ambassador of China
Ambassador of India
Chief Representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Ambassador of Palestinian National Authority
Ambassador of Pakistan
Ambassador of the United Kingdom
Ambassador of Iran
Ambassador of Britain
Ambassador of Pakistan
Deputy Chief of Mission – Israel
U.S. Government Officials
Senator Jim Webb
Senator Tim Kaine
Representative Eric Cantor
Senator Mark Warner
Governor Bob McDonnell
Governor George Allen
Secretary Lawrence S. Eagleburger
General Richard Lee Armitage
Ambassador William Milam
Ambassador W. Nathaniel Howell
Ambassador Anthony Quainton
Ambassador Philip T. Reeker
Ambassador L. Bruce Laingen
Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.
Representative James Leach
Ambassador James R. Lilley
Secretary John Snow
Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat
Secretary Caspar Weinberger
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer
Joseph J. Sisco
Ambassador Richard Sklar
Ambassador Donald P. Gregg
Lt. General Samuel V. Wilson
Secretary Paul H. Nitze
Ambassador B. Lynn Pascoe
Dr. David Gompert
Frederick Hitz
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering
C. Thomas Burke
Michael McCurry
2016 Presidential Candidate
Congressman, D-Virginia
Congressman, D-Virginia
Governor of Virginia
House Majority Leader
Congressman for Virginia’s 7th District, R-Virginia
Congressman, D-Virginia
Governor of Virginia
Governor of Virginia
Governor of Virginia
Secretary of State
Deputy Secretary of State under Colin Powell
Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ambassador to Bangladesh and Pakistan
Ambassador to Kuwait
Ambassador to Peru, Kuwait, Nicaragua, and the Central African Republic
Consul General in Milan, Italy
Ambassador to Macedonia
Principal Officer and Hostage Spokesperson during the 1979-1981 Iranian Hostage Crisis
Ambassador to Malta
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Congressman, R-Iowa
Ambassador to China
Secretary of the Treasury
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Ambassador to the European Union
Secretary of Defense
Chief Administrator of Iraq
Negotiator during the 1970 Syrian Invasion of Jordan, 1971 India-Pakistan War, and 1974 Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations
Undersecretary for Political Affairs for Henry Kissinger
Representative to the United Nations
Ambassador to South Korea
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Navy
Director of Policy Planning, Department of State
Undersecretary General for Political Affairs, United Nations
Ambassador to Indonesia
Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Inspector General, CIA
Ambassador to Russia, India, UN, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan
Commissioner to the Canal Zone
White House Press Secretary
Media
Cathy Scott Clark
Romesh Ratnesar
Eason Jordon
Karen Kasmauski
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Kinzer
Charles McDowell
William Millsaps
Linda Fasulo
Don Oberdorfer
Adrian Wooldridge
Stephen Emerson
Dr. Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
Paul Duke
Sabrina Squire
Henry Chu
Author, Journalist
Deputy Managing Editor, TIME
Chief News Executive, CNN
Director of Operations and Communications, The Malala Fund
Photographer, National Geographic
Author, Journalist, and Senior Policy Analyst
Author, The New York Times
Syndicated Columnist, The Richmond Times-Dispatch
Sports Editor, The Richmond Times-Dispatch
Correspondent, NBC News, MSNBC, and NPR
Diplomatic Columnist, The Washington Post
Management Editor, The Economist
Author
Commonwealth Public Broadcasting
Public Broadcasting
WWBT-12
Beijing Bureau Chief for The Los Angeles Times
International Organizations
Ben Bernanke
John Hofmeister
Susan Eisenhower
Dr. Ashley J. Tellis
Thomas F. Farrell, II
Roger Winter
Ted Galen Carpenter
Michael Mussa
Dr. Robin Edward Poulton
Dr. Patrick Clawson
Dr. Simon Serfaty
Dr. Douglas Ollivant
Dr. Clifford G. Gaddy
Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Ribal al-Assad
Dr. Mary Habeck
Dr. James Zogby
Dr. Eric Trager
Chairman, United States Federal Reserve
President and CEO, Shell Oil Company
President, Eisenhower Group, Inc.
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
President and CEO, Dominion
Director, U.S. Committee for Refugees
Senior Fellow, CATO Institute
International Monetary Fund
International Peace Consultant, United Nations
Director of Research, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Director of the Europe Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
CEO, Valens Global
Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Founder and Director, Organisation for Democracy and Freedom in Syria
Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Arab American Institute
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Academia
Dr. William Newmann
Dr. Eugene Trani
Dr. Mihailo Crnobrnja
Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci
Dr. Joshua Muravchik
Dr. John Echeverri-Gent
Dr. Michael Fischbach
Dr. Stephen Long
Dr. Sheila Carapico
Dr. Scott Harrop
Dr. Todd Sechser
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
Dr. Elżbieta M. Goździak
Dr. Allen Lynch
Dr. Sinan Ciddi
Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University
President, Virginia Commonwealth University
Visiting Scholar, College of William & Mary
Faculty, Georgetown University
Faculty, Institute of World Politics
Faculty, University of Virginia
Faculty, Randolph-Macon College
Faculty, University of Richmond
Faculty, University of Richmond
Faculty, University of Virginia
Faculty, University of Virginia
Faculty, College of William & Mary
Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell
Research Professor, Institute for the Study of International Migration
Faculty, University of Virginia
Faculty, Georgetown University
