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
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
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, on global economic realignment
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
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
Managing Director, Thomson Reuters, on the virtual economy
Barbara Slavin
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Center's South Asia Center; and Washington Correspondent, Al-Monitor, on the Middle East
Ambassador Ross Wilson
Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey; Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Lecturer, The George Washington University, on the Middle East
Robin Wright
Joint Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic world, on the Middle East
Embassy Receptions
Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco
The World Affairs Councils of America will host its 2013 National Conference, Six Top Issues for 2014, November 13-15, 2013 at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel.
