Ban Ki Moon
Secretary-General, United Nations (2007-2016)
Fisher Family Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
MPP ‘85
Susan Thornton
Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State (2017-2018)
Nicholas Burns (Moderator)
Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair, Future of Diplomacy Project, Harvard Kennedy School

Juan Manuel Santos
President of Colombia (2010-2018)
2016 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Nicholas Burns (Moderator)
Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2001-2005)

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29th Annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics
Jill Abramson
Senior lecturer, Harvard University; political columnist, The Guardian; former executive editor, The New York Times
Jane Mayer
Staff Writer, The New Yorker; author, "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right"
 
David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism
David Von Drehle
Columnist, The Washington Post
 

Rumana Ahmed
Harvard Kennedy School, MPA/MC ’19
Senior Advisor, Office for Global Engagement and Strategic Communications, National Security Council (2011 – 2016)
Ned Price
Special Assistant to the President, Spokesperson and Senior Director, National Security Council (2016-2017)
Harvard Kennedy School, MPP ‘10
Gautam Raghavan  
White House LGBTQ & AAPI Liaison, White House (2011-2014)
Raina Thiele
Liaison for Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
Harvard Kennedy School, MPP ‘09
Stephanie Valencia
Former Special Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Director of Public Engagement
Aneesh Raman ’01
Speechwriter to President Barack Obama (2011-2013)

Ash Carter
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Belfer Professor of Technology and Global Affairs, HKS
United States Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)
Vanita Gupta
President and CEO, The Leadership Conference
Reid Hoffman
Partner, Greylock Partners
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Latanya Sweeney
Professor of Government and Technology in Residence, Department of Government
Director, Data Privacy Lab, Harvard University
Former Chief Technologist, Federal Trade Commission
David Eaves (Moderator)
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Eloise Kaehny ‘19
Chair, Institute of Politics National Campaign
Eric Lesser '07 HLS '15
Member, Massachusetts State Senate
Lange Luntao ‘12
Member, Board Trustees for the Stockton Unified School District
Svante Myrick
Mayor of Ithaca, New York
2014 New Frontier Award Recipient
Ryan Quarles HGSE ‘09
Agriculture Commissioner of Kentucky
Michelle Wu ’07, HLS ‘12
City Councilor At-Large, Boston City Council
Mark D. Gearan ’78 (Moderator)
Director, Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Wendy R. Sherman
Incoming Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
Senior Counselor, Albright Stonebridge Group
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2011-2015)
 
Nancy Gibbs
Visiting Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice, Harvard Kennedy School
Editor in Chief, TIME (2013-2017)

Chris Hughes '06
Co-chair of the Economic Security Project
Co-Founder of Facebook
Michael Tubbs
Mayor of Stockton, CA
Rema Hanna (Moderator)
Scientific Director, J-PAL Southeast Asia
Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Rev. William J. Barber, II
President & Sr. Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach
Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival
Laverne Berry
Attorney and Voting Rights Advocate
Producer, Capturing the Flag
Alex Keyssar
Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Brittany Packnett (Moderator)
Fall 2018 Resident Fellow, Institute of Politics
Vice President of National Community Alliances & Engagement, Teach For America
Co-Founder, Campaign Zero

Susan Glasser
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Founder, Politico Magazine
Former Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy
Wolfgang Ischinger
Chairman, Munich Security Conference
German Ambassador to the Court of St. James (2006-2008)
German Ambassador to the United States (2001-2006)
Kurt Volker  
U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations
Executive Director, McCain Institute for International Leadership, Arizona State University
U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2008-2009)
Nicholas Burns (Moderator)
Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2001-2005)

A Public Address by His Excellency
Lenín Moreno
President of Ecuador

***LOTTERY HAS CONCLUDED***

A Public Address by His Excellency
Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez
President of Panama

***THIS FORUM WILL BE TICKETED - LOTTERY HAS CONCLUDED***