Terrorism Speakers

Jeffrey Baxter

Grammy Award-winning rock guitarist with the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, Baxter is now an advising member of Congress, the defense industry, and the military. Baxter teaches audiences what he has taught leading Pentagon and government officials - challenging old assumptions and adapting to change.

Bing West

A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Bing West previously served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs where he was responsible for defense policy around the globe during the Reagan administration. He is an expert on the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as defense, ...

Anne-Marie Slaughter

As Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department, Anne-Marie Slaughter touched on nearly every foreign policy issue. She was named a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.

Nicholas Kristof

A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. As a seasoned journalist who has traveled China, Africa, India, and South Asia, he offers a compassionate glimpse into such issues as global health, poverty and ...

Mariane Pearl

Pearl is a unique and versatile award-winning journalist who has written A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, a gripping and profound narrative of her experience and the pursuit of those who captured and killed her husband, Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall ...

Neil Livingstone

Livingstone, author and world-renowned crisis management expert, is Chairman and CEO of GlobalOptions. He has spent more than two decades providing clients in the U.S. and abroad with extraordinary services.

Anthony Shadid

He is the Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times. Since 9/11, he has reported from most of the countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank.

Richard Carmona

As the 17th Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona developed comprehensive knowledge of the environmental influences on healthy living today. He offers a close look at the epidemic of asthma in young children as well as other issues directly related to the state of our environment and how we can work towards not only a healthy body, ...

Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh is widely acknowledged as the most influential and acclaimed investigative reporter of the past 35 years. His special focus is, and has always been, the abuse of power in the name of national security. His journalism and publishing has received a record 5 Pulitzer Prizes.

Paul M. Joyal

Paul M. Joyal is responsible for supporting client market services in the public safety, intelligence, and security vertical on the State, Local, and Federal levels as the Vice President of Public Safety and Homeland Security National Strategies, Inc.

Neal Cohen

Appointed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Dr. Cohen served as the Commissioner of Health of New York City for four years from February 1998 to 2002. While Commissioner, Dr. Cohen oversaw the public health responses to several major crises unprecedented in the history of New York City or the nation. The West Nile virus ...

Chris Hedges

A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, he writes and speaks extensively on war, religion and the conflict in the Middle East. He is the author of the bestseller War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a book ...

John King

John King is the anchor of CNN's John King, USA. On the air and in his speaking engagements, King offers in-depth analysis, discussion and commentary on a blend of politics, national and world affairs,and social, cultural and media trends.

Stephen Kinzer

Kinzer is an award-winning correspondent who has reported from more than 50 countries on four continents. His book, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, is an account of the fourteen times the United States has overthrown foreign governments.

Stella Rimington

Dame Stella Rimington was the first woman to hold the post of Director General of MI5, the UK’s Security Service. She also made history as the first Director General whose name was publicly announced on appointment.

Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Nawaz is a former member of the Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir, and the co-founder and executive director of Quilliam, the world's first counter-extremism think tank. He is also the co-founder of Khudi, a counter-extremism social movement working towards the promotion of social democratic change in Pakistan.

Jason Recher & Doug McMarlin

Recher & McMarlin have served as aides to prominent US officials, creating major media & strategy campaigns for the likes of George W. Bush & Sarah Palin.

Peter Lance

Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and lawyer now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a masters degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a JD from Fordham University School of Law, Lance spent the first 15 years of his career as a print reporter and ...

Roya Hakakian

A celebrated poet and filmmaker, Hakakian’s recent film, Armed and Innocent, takes a close look at the involvement of underage children in wars around the world. Speaking on the Middle East and the importance of human rights, Hakakian is passionate about raising awareness of current happenings that many either ...

George Packer

George Packer is a novelist and columnist for the New Yorker . He has written Blood of the Liberals and The Assassins Gate, an in depth look at the war in Iraq through the eyes of ordinary Iraqi citizens. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's and The Nation.