Peter Baker
1918 Society -- White House Correspondent, The New York Times; author of the upcoming book Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
Senator Richard Blumenthal
Co-Chair, Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking
NASA Administrator, on U.S. education
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court on making our democracy work
Former Chairman and CEO, Carlson, on human trafficking
The Honorable Michael Chertoff
Former Secretary of Homeland Security; and Chairman and Co-Founder, The Chertoff Group, on cybersecurity
Frank J. Cilluffo
Former Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security; Associate Vice President, George Washington University; Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute, on cybersecurity
Massimo Cirasino
Manager, Financial Infrastructure Service Line, The World Bank, on the virtual economy
Steve Clemons
Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic; Editor, Atlantic Live; and Senior Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation, on global economic realignment
Deputy Commander, U.S. Cyber Command, on cyber security
Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky
Senior Fellow, Harvard University JFK Belfer Center for Science and Internationall Affairs; former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs; Chair, WACA National Board of Directors
Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., on energy and the environment
Bob Dudley
Group Chief Executive, BP
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, on global economic realignment
Tom Gjelten
Correspondent, NPR
Ambassador Marc Grossman
Former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and former Chair, WACA National Board of Directors, on making our democracy work
John Hofmeister
Founder and Chief Executive, Citizens for Affordable Energy; and former President, Shell Oil Company, on U.S. energy policy and the environment
Kevin Johnson
Chief Executive Officer, Secure Ideas; and Senior Instructor, SANS Institute, on cybersecurity
Mwangi S. Kimenyi
Director, Africa Growth Initiative, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution; and Founding Executive Director of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Co-Director & Senior Fellow, Energy & National Security Program, CSIS
Michael Levi
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations, on U.S. energy policy and the environment
William F. Martin
Former Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury and former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan; Chairman, Washington Policy & Analysis, Inc., on U.S. energy policy and the environment
Tarek MasoudAssociate Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, on the Middle East
Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, on emerging economies
Co-Chair, Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking
Michelle A. Rhee
Former Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools, and Founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, on U.S. education
Josh Rogin
Senior Correspondent for National Security and Politics, Newsweek and The Daily Beast, will keynote the discussion with the WACA Student Scholarship Winners
Managing Director, Thomson Reuters, on the virtual economy
Vice President, Editor-at-Large and co-founder, Global Post
