World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Hermitage Capital Management

Author of five New York Times bestsellers

Secretary of Defense (2011-2013); Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2011)

Chairman and Founder, Stratfor

Washington Correspondent, Quartz

Senior Advisor to President Obama (2009-2011); Institute Director, The University of Chicago Institute of Politics

Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; Former Ambassador to Iraq, Poland, Republic of Macedonia and Special Envoy to Kosovo

Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States

Senior Policy Analyst, Google

Introduced by Ambassador James K. Glassman, former executive director, George W. Bush Institute

USMC (retired)

Professor and Program Director, INSEAD

Beijing Correspondent, National Public Radio

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States

President and CEO, CARE

Senior Energy Writer, The Wall Street Journal

Mark Penn, Pollster for President Bill Clinton; Jan van Lohuizen, Pollster for President George W. Bush; Moderated by Mark Kennedy, Director, George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management

Senior Fellow, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Brookings Institution

Pia Orrenius, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Antonio Ortiz-Mena, Head of Section, Economic Affairs, Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Hong Kong Commissioner to the United States, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region