2012 Speakers

 
 

Gen. Keith B. Alexander
Director
National Security Agency

Adm. William H. McRaven
Commander
U.S. Special Operations Command

Marc Grossman
U.S. Special Envoy to
Afghanistan and Pakistan


 
John S. Pistole
TSA Administrator

Matthew Olsen
Director
National Counterterrorism Center

Gen. Douglas Lute
Deputy National Security Advisor

   
 
 Stephen J. Hadley
Former White House National Security Advisor
 Michael Chertoff
Former Secretary
Department of Homeland Security
David S. Cohen
U.S. Treasury Under Secretary
Terrorism and Financial Intelligence


 

Adm. Mike McConnell
Former Director of
National Intelligence

Gen. Michael Hayden
Former Director
Central Intelligence Agency;
National Security Agency

Jane Harman
Former Representative
36th Congressional District of
California
President, CEO, and Chair
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholar

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Leiter
Former Director
National Counterterrorism Center

Adm. Dennis C. Blair
Former Director
of National Intelligence

John McLaughlin
Former Deputy and Acting
Director
Central Intelligence Agency

 
 

John D. Negroponte
Former Deputy Secretary of State; Former Director of National Intelligence

Juan Zarate
Former Deputy Assistant to the
President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism

Charles E. Allen
Former Under Secretary for
Intelligence and Analysis
Department of Homeland Security

 
 

Fran Townsend
Former White House Homeland Security Advisor

Zalmay M. Khalilzad
Former Ambassador to the United Nations; Iraq; Afghanistan

William Bratton
Former Chief of Police
Los Angeles
Former Police Commissioner
New York; Boston

     

Karl Eikenberry
Former U.S. Ambassador to
Afghanistan

Cofer Black
Former Director
Counterterrorist Center
Central Intelligence Agency

L. Paul Bremer
Former Administrator
Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq


 

Christopher R. Hill
Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq

Daniel Benjamin
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
Ambassador-at-Large
U.S. State Department


Alberto J. Mora
Former General Counsel of the Navy

 

Peter Bergen
Director
National Securities Studies Program
New American Foundation

Shehrbano "Sherry" Rehman
Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States

Gilles de Kerchove
Coordinator for Counterterrorism for the European Union


 
 

Richard Barrett
Coordinator
United Nations Al Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team

Devin Talbott
Managing Partner
Enlightenment Capital 

William H. Webster
Chairman
Homeland Security Advisory Committee

   
   
Ali Soufan
CEO
Soufan Group 
 Christopher Ahlberg
CEO & Co-founder
Recorded Future
 Eklil Hakimi
Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States
 
 
   
Michael Isikoff
Investigative Journalist
NBC News

John D. Harris II
Vice President
Raytheon Company

Hank Crumpton
Chairman & CEO
Crumpton Group LLC

 
       
 Kevin DeSanto
Managing Director
KippsDeSanto & Co.

Daniel Klaidman
Correspondent
Newsweek