KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Best-Selling Author, Political Analyst & Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Entrepreneur, Author & Communications Strategist; Former Director of White House Message Strategy; Chairman of Telegraph Creative; Founder of C.D. Sims & Co.

News Anchor; Host of “Prime Time with Rosanna Lockwood”; Business, Economics, Geopolitics & Sustainability Specialist

Award-Winning Journalist, ABC Contributor & Co-Host of BBCWorld's "The Global Story" Podcast

Geopolitical Analyst, Author, Senior Fellow at CNAS

Chief National Security Correspondent for CNN & Co-Anchor of CNN Newsroom; Bestselling Author

Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Human Rights Advocate; Executive Director of The Reckoning Project; Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs

Journalist, Author & Speaker; Hostage & Free Speech Advocate; Falsely Accused of Espionage & Held Hostage in Iran for 544 Days; Bestselling Author of "Prisoner"

Historian, Journalist & Author; Director of Tricontinental Institute & Chief Editor of LeftWord Books

Chief International Correspondent, Award-Winning Journalist, Author

Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist; Associate Editor, The Washington Post & Author of 23 Bestsellers

Author & Contributing Writer for the New York Times Magazine; Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for "Notes on a Foreign Country"

Columnist for The New York Times & Bestselling Author of "Rise of ISIS"; Former Constitutional Litigator & Past President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

Political Economist, Commentator, Lawyer, Author & Actor

Award-Winning Journalist & Anchor; NYT Bestselling Author; U.S. Special Correspondent for BBC & MSNBC Contributor

Broadcast Journalist & Political Commentator; Anchor of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°"; Host of "All There Is" Podcast

Moderator of "Open to Debate"; Award-Winning Journalist & Filmmaker; Author of "In a Different Key: The Story of Autism"

Political Commentator, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity & Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center

Award-Winning Afghan-American Journalist & Author

President of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs