Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Helle Dale
Deputy Director,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, and Director,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

PANEL 1
Fritz Ermarth
Former Chairman,
National Intelligence Council
and former Senior Director,
USSR/Russia,
National Security Council

Irina Yasina, Ph.D.
Director,
Regional Journalism Club (via satellite)

Baker Spring
F.M. Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy,
The Heritage Foundation

Col. (Ret.) Alexander Sharavin – invited
Director,
Institute for Political and Military Analysis (via satellite)

Moderator
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security, The Heritage Foundation

PANEL 2
Yevgeny Volk, Ph.D.
Coordinator,
Moscow Office,
The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation (via satellite)

Janusz Bugajski
Director,
New European Democracies Project Senior Fellow,
Europe Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Sanford M. Saunders, Jr.
Partner,
Greenberg/Traurig

Moderator
Peter Brookes
Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

CLOSING REMARKS
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Ilan Berman
Vice President for Policy,
American Foreign Policy Council

Kenneth Katzman
Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs,
Congressional Research Service

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

James Jay Carafano
Assistant Director,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies
and Senior Research Fellow,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Richard Brookhiser
Author

Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.
Director,
B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable Bob Graham
Former Member of the United States Senate (D-FL),
and Chairman,
Commission for the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism

The Honorable Jim Talent
Former Member of the United States Senate (R-MO),
and Vice-Chairman,
Commission for the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism

Peter Brookes
Senior Fellow,
National Security Affairs,
and Chung Ju-Yung Fellow for Policy Studies,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Sheriff Charles A. ("Chuck") Jenkins
Frederick County, Maryland

Jena Baker McNeill
Homeland Security Policy Analyst,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Featuring Opening Remarks from:
Brad Thor
Author of the best-selling books The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin, State of the Union,
Blowback, Takedown, The First Commandment, and The Last Patriot

John-Peter Fogarty
Director,
Donor Relations,
The Heritage Foundation

Brad O’Leary
Author

John Edward Hilboldt
Director,
Lectures and Seminars,
The Heritage Foundation

Stephen C. Meyer, Ph.D.
Author

Becky Norton Dunlop
Vice President,
External Relations,
The Heritage Foundation

John McLaughlin
Former Deputy Director,
Central Intelligence Agency

Dov Zakheim
Vice President,
Booz Allen Hamilton

Daniel Twining
Senior Fellow for Asia,
German Marshall Fund

Dan Goure
Vice President,
Lexington Institute

Kim Holmes
Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies,
and Director, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation

and

Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute

General Norton A. Schwartz
Chief of Staff,
United States Air Force

Mackenzie Eaglen
Senior Policy Analyst for National Security,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering (USAF, Ret.)
Former Director of the Missile Defense Agency
(July 2004-January 2009)

Walter Lohman
Director,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

James Dean
Deputy Director,
Government Relations,
Foreign, Defense, Trade and Homeland Security Policy,
The Heritage Foundation

Michael Novak
George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy,
American Enterprise Institute

Jennifer Marshall
Director,
Domestic Policy Studies and the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society,
The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Member,
United States House of Representatives

Robert Moffit
Director,
Center for Health Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Welcome and Introduction:
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
President,
The Heritage Foundation

Keynote Remarks:
The Honorable Joe Wilson (R-SC)
Member,
House Foreign Affairs Committee
and Member,
Congressional Taiwan Caucus

Panel Discussion featuring:
Chris Nelson
Senior Vice President,
Samuels International Associates;
Editor,
The Nelson Report;
and former Professional Staff,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Matthew Reynolds
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs,
George W. Bush Administration

Jeremy Kadden
Legislative Assistant,
Office of Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Co-Chair,
Congressional Taiwan Caucus

Dennis Halpin
Professional Staff Member,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs (Minority)

Martin and Annelise Anderson
Authors

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
President,
The Heritage Foundation

Featuring Keynote Remarks by:
The Honorable Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Member,
United States Senate

With commentaries from:
Major General (Res.) Yaakov Amidror
Program Director,
Institute for Contemporary Affairs,
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
and former Commander of Israel’s National Defense College

Dan Diker
Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs,
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Major General (Res.) Giora Eiland
Senior Research Fellow,
Institute for National Security Studies,
Tel Aviv University
and former head of the Israeli National Security Council

Brigadier General James Hutchens, U.S. Army (Ret.)
President and Chairman of the Board,
Jerusalem Connection International

Daniel Pipes
Director,
Middle East Forum,
and Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow,
The Hoover Institution,
Stanford University

Jonathan Schanzer
Deputy Executive Director,
Jewish Policy Center
and author of Hamas Vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine

The Honorable R. James Woolsey
Co-Chairman,
Committee on the Present Danger,
and former Director,
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow,
The Heritage Foundation

Sarah Stern
President,
The Endowment for Middle East Truth

Featuring Keynote Remarks by:
The Honorable John Thune (R-SD)
Member, U. S. Senate

Introductory Remarks by:
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D
President,
The Heritage Foundation

Followed by Commentary from:
John Palatiello
President,
Business Coalition for Fair Competition (BCFC)

Ron Utt
Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow,
Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Dr. Wang Dan

Introductory Remarks by:
The Honorable Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Member,
U.S. Senate

Dr. Lee Edwards
Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought,
The Heritage Foundation

James W. Muller, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science,
University of Alaska, and
Academic Chairman,
The Churchill Centre,
Cambridge, England

Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.
Director,
B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

A MESSAGE FROM THE CUBAN PEOPLE

Bertha Antúnez
Sister of prominent dissident Cuban activist
Jorge Luis "Antúnez" Garcia Paz

COMMENTARY – MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE IN CUBA

Ambassador Lino Gutierrez
Former Ambassador to Argentina and Nicaragua
and Senior Advisor on Cuba
to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez

Adolfo Franco
Former Assistant Administrator,
Agency for International Development

Mauricio Claver-Carone
Director,
U.S.-Cuba Democracy Political Action Committee

Ray Walser, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America,
The Heritage Foundation

Lance Izumi
Executive Producer and Author

Nick Tucker
Director

The Pacific Research Institute

and

The Heritage Foundation

Dennis Schrader
Former Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
and President of DRS International, LLC

Followed by Commentary from:

Matt Mayer
Visiting Fellow,
The Heritage Foundation;
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Provisum Strategies, LLC;
Adjunct Professor,
Ohio State University; and
Author of Homeland and Federalism: Protecting America from Outside the Beltway

Jena Baker McNeill
Policy Analyst for Homeland Security,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Roger Clegg
President and General Counsel,
Center for Equal Opportunity

Gail Heriot
Professor of Law,
University of San Diego School of Law,
and Commissioner,
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Jocelyn Samuels
Vice President for Education and Employment,
National Women’s Law Center

Theodore Shaw
Professor of Professional Practice,
Columbia Law School,
and former Director-Counsel and President,
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Todd Gaziano
Senior Legal Fellow,
The Heritage Foundation,
and Commissioner,
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

General Craig R. McKinley
Chief,
National Guard Bureau

Mackenzie Eaglen
Senior Policy Analyst for National Security,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Pete Hegseth
Chairman of Vets for Freedom
and former Captain, U.S. Army

Gabe Ledeen
Freelance Writer
and former Captain, U.S. Marine Corps

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Ranking Member,
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions,
United States Senate

Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D.
Vice President,
Domestic and Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute

and

The Heritage Foundation

Hillel Neuer
Executive Director,
UN Watch

Gregg Rickman
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Public Policy,
and former U.S. Special Envoy for the Secretary of State to
Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism

Brett D. Schaefer
Jay Kingham Fellow International Regulatory Affairs,
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom,
The Heritage Foundation

Sam Haskell
Author of the new book, Promises I Made My Mother,
and former Worldwide Head of Television,
William Morris Agency

James L. Swanson
Senior Legal Scholar,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Featuring Opening Remarks by:

The Honorable Sherry Rehman
Member of Parliament,
National Assembly of Pakistan

Followed by a Panel Discussion with:

Lisa Curtis
Senior Research Fellow,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Joshua White
Research Fellow,
Center on Faith & International Affairs,
Institute for Global Engagement

Haider Mullick
Senior Fellow,
Joint Special Operations University, USA,
and Associate,
Pakistan Security Research Unit,
University of Bradford, UK

Walter Lohman
Director,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Jay W. Richards
Author

Jennifer Marshall
Director,
Domestic Policy Studies,
DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society,
The Heritage Foundation

Stuart Bowen
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

Michael O'Hanlon
Senior Fellow,
Foreign Policy,
Director of Research,
21st Century Defense Initiative
and the Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair,
The Brookings Institution

James Carafano
Assistant Director,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies
and Senior Research Fellow,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs,
The Heritage Foundation

Dr. Gabriel Calzada
Professor,
King Juan Carlos University,
Madrid, Spain

Robert Murphy
Economist,
Institute for Energy Research

William T. "Tom" Bogart
Professor of Economics,
York (Pa.) College

Ben Lieberman
Senior Policy Analyst,
Energy and Environment,
Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Matthew Sinclair
Research Director,
TaxPayers’ Alliance (United Kingdom)

Barbara Crook
Associate Director and North American Representative,
Palestinian Media Watch

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Nile Gardiner, Ph.D.
Director,
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom,
The Heritage Foundation

Mohan Guruswamy
Chairman and Founder,
Centre for Policy Alternatives,
India

Walter Andersen
Senior Adjunct Professor,
South Asia Studies,
The Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University

Daniel Twining
Senior Fellow for Asia,
German Marshall Fund of the United States

Lisa Curtis
Senior Research Fellow,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Julie Myers Wood
Former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Stewart Verdery
Former Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Robert Rector
Senior Research Fellow,
Domestic Policy,
The Heritage Foundation

Jena Baker McNeill
Policy Analyst for Homeland Security,
The Heritage Foundation

Featuring Keynote Remarks by:

The Honorable Ed Royce (R-CA)
Ranking Member,
U.S. House of Representatives
Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade,
and Senior Member,
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment

Followed by a Panel Discussion Featuring:

Joel Charney
Vice President for Policy,
Refugees International

Roberta Cohen
Non Resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies,
The Brookings Institution
and Senior Associate in the Institute for the Study of International Migration,
Georgetown University

Jared Genser
Partner,
DLA Piper LLP (U.S.) and
President,
Freedom Now

Carl Gershman
President,
National Endowment for Democracy

Bruce Klingner
Senior Research Fellow,
Northeast Asia,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

David Skeel
S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law,
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Peter J. Wallison
Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies,
American Enterprise Institute

Bert Ely
President,
Ely & Company

Douglas J. Elliott
Fellow,
The Brookings Institution

Jeff Lemieux
(PowerPoint presentation)
Senior Vice President,
Center for Policy and Research,
America’s Health Insurance Plans

Robert Berenson, M.D.
Senior Fellow,
The Urban Institute

Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
Director,
Center for Health Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

John B. Taylor, Ph.D.
Author

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
President,
The Heritage Foundation

Dennis Wilder
Visiting Fellow,
The Brookings Institution

Dan Blumenthal
Resident Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute

Renato Cruz de Castro
Associate Professor,
De La Salle University,
Manila

Dr. Marvin Ott
Professor of National Security Policy,
National War College

Walter Lohman
Director,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

John B. and Elizabeth A. Roberts
Authors

John Edward Hilboldt
Director,
Lectures and Seminars,
The Heritage Foundation

Rebecca Hagelin
Best-Selling Author

John Edward Hilboldt
Director,
Lectures and Seminars,
The Heritage Foundation

Paul Rahe
The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the
Western Heritage,
Hillsdale College

And responses from:
James Ceaser
Professor of Politics,
University of Virginia

Thomas G. West
Professor of Politics,
University of Dallas

Joseph Postell
Assistant Director,
B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

 

Steven J. Milloy
Author

Becky Norton Dunlop
Vice President,
External Relations,
The Heritage Foundation

Andrew J. Gerber
Manager,
Civil and Commercial Space Division,
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
The California Institute of Technology

Brian H. Wilcox
Member,
Technical Staff,
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jena Baker McNeill
Policy Analyst,
Homeland Security,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Timothy P. Carney
on THE BIG RIPOFF: HOW BIG BUSINESS AND BIG GOVERNMENT STEAL YOUR MONEY

Matthew B. Crawford
on SHOPCLASS AS SOULCRAFT

Discussant
Dr. Peter Koslowski
Professor of Philosophy,
Free University Amsterdam

Dr. Richard Brake
Director,
Culture of Enterprise Initiative,
Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought,
The Heritage Foundation

Joseph Postell
Assistant Director,
B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow,
Foreign Policy,
The Brookings Institution

Kimberly Kagan, Ph.D.
President,
Institute for the Study of War

Sally McNamara
Senior Policy Analyst in European Affairs,
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom,
The Heritage Foundation

Nile Gardiner, Ph.D.
Director,
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom,
The Heritage Foundation

Ray Walser, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America,
The Heritage Foundation

Steven Bucci, Ph.D.
Cyber Lead, Global Leadership Initiative, IBM, and
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Homeland Defense,
Department of Defense

Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow,
Council on Foreign Relations

Jena Baker McNeill
Policy Analyst for Homeland Security,
The Heritage Foundation

Dr. Michael J. Green
Associate Professor,
Georgetown University,
and Senior Advisor and Japan Chair,
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Yoichi Kato
Bureau Chief,
Asahi Shimbun

Dr. Derek Scissors
Research Fellow,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Bruce Klingner
Senior Research Fellow,
Northeast Asia,
The Heritage Foundation

J.D. Foster, Ph.D.
Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the Economics of Fiscal Policy,
Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Desmond Lachman, Ph.D.
Resident Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Jeremy Rabkin, Ph.D.
Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law

Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.
Margaret Thatcher Senior Research Fellow,
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom,
The Heritage Foundation

PANEL ONE

Stephen Blank, Ph.D.
Research Professor,
National Security Affairs,
Strategic Studies Institute,
U.S. Army War College

Svante E. Cornell, Ph.D.
Research Director,
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University

Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center
for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Moderator
Peter Brookes
Senior Fellow,
National Security Affairs
and Chung Ju Yung Fellow for Policy Studies,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

PANEL TWO

Robert O. Freedman, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Political Science,
Johns Hopkins University
and Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science, Baltimore Hebrew University

Donald N. Jensen, Ph.D.
Resident Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations,
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University

Stephen Blank, Ph.D.
Research Professor,
National Security Affairs,
Strategic Studies Institute,
U.S. Army War College

Moderator
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Peter Brookes
Senior Fellow, National Security Affairs
and Chung Ju Yung Fellow for Policy Studies,
Asian Studies Center,

and

Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Michael Wynne
Former Secretary,
U.S. Air Force

General Dennis Reimer
Former Chief of Staff,
U.S. Army

Baker Spring
F.M. Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy,
The Heritage Foundation

Mackenzie Eaglen
Senior Policy Analyst for National Security,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable John McCain
United States Senator

Lodi Gyari
Special Envoy of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Harry Wu
Executive Director,
Laogai Research Foundation

Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought,
B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Peter Bradford
Vermont Law School,
former NRC Commissioner
and Union of Concerned Scientists Board Member

Marlo Lewis
Senior Fellow,
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Doug Koplow
Founder,
Earth Track

Ben Lieberman
Senior Policy Analyst,
Energy and Environment,
The Heritage Foundation

Jack Spencer
Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy Policy,
The Heritage Foundation

Henry Sokolski
Executive Director,
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC)

Patrick Sookhdeo, Ph.D., D.D. F.Sy.I.
Director,
Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity

John Hilboldt
Director,
Lectures and Seminars,
The Heritage Foundation

Frank Jannuzi
Professional Staff Member,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Majority)

Keith Luse
Senior Professional Staff Member,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Minority)

Jasmeet Ahuja
Professional Staff Member,
House Committee on Foreign Affairs (Majority)

Edward Burrier
Professional Legislative Staff,
Representative Ed Royce (R-CA)

Walter Lohman
Director,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

PANEL 1 – SAUDI GLOBAL AND REGIONAL POLICIES (10:00 A.M.)

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs,
The Heritage Foundation

Nina Shea
Senior Fellow,
The Hudson Institute

Walid Phares
Senior Fellow,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Moderator
Ali Alyami
Executive Director,
The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia

PANEL 2 – NEW STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE (11:30 A.M.)

Ali Alyami
Executive Director,
The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia

Jack Pearce
Board Member,
The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia

Aiyah Saihati
Saudi native and businesswoman

Moderator
Sarah Platts
Associate Fellow and Program Director,
Henry Jackson Society

The Heritage Foundation

and

The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia

Christopher Monckton
Chief Policy Advisor,
Science and Public Policy Institute

Ben Lieberman
Senior Policy Analyst,
Energy and Environment,
Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Sally C. Pipes
President and CEO,
Pacific Research Institute

Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
Director,
Center for Health Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Walter Dellinger III
Former Acting Solicitor General of the United States for President Clinton,
and Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law,
Duke University School of Law

Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Senior Writer,
National Journal,
and Contributing Editor,
Newsweek

Jonathan Adler
Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation,
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Edwin Meese III
Chairman,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

The Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith MP
Former Leader of the British Conservative Party

Featuring:

Evan Sayet
Writer, Lecturer and Pundit

 

Featuring Remarks by:
Paul Ingrassia
Former Detroit Bureau Chief,
Wall Street Journal and Co-Author,
Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry

Douglas M. Foley
Chairman,
Restructuring and Insolvency,
McGuireWoods LLP

Andrew M. Grossman
Senior Legal Policy Analyst,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

James L. Gattuso
Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy,
Thomas A Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Indur Goklany, Ph.D.
Author of The Improving State of the World

David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst in Energy Economics and Climate Change,
Center for Data Analysis,
The Heritage Foundation

Featuring:
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Director,
American Center for Democracy and Author,
Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It

Andrew C. McCarthy
Chairman,
Center for Law and Counterterrorism,
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Andrew M. Grossman
Senior Legal Policy Analyst,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Robert Alt
Deputy Director,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Michael Rowan
Author of The Threat Closer to Home

Ambassador Otto J. Reich
Former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela and
President,
Otto Reich Associates, LLC

Dr. Ray Walser
Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America,
The Heritage Foundation

Bradley C.S. Watson, Ph.D.
Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and
Western Political Thought,
Saint Vincent College

Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.
Director,
B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Homer L. Deakins, Jr.
Shareholder,
Ogletree Deakins

Rian Wathen
Former Organizing Director and Director of Collective Bargaining,
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700,
Indianapolis

James Sherk
Bradley Fellow in Labor Policy,
Center for Data Analysis,
The Heritage Foundation

Featuring Keynote Remarks by:

Marshall I. Goldman, Ph.D.
Kathryn Davis Professor of Russian Economics Emeritus,
Wellesley College
and Senior Scholar,
Davis Center for Russian Studies,
Harvard University

Followed by a Commentaries from:

Karen Harbert
Executive Vice President and Managing Director,
Institute for 21st Century Energy,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Jonathan Elkind
Senior Fellow,
Foreign Policy Program and Energy Security Initiative,
The Brookings Institution

David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst,
Energy Economics and Climate Change,
The Heritage Foundation

László Deák, Ph.D.
Counselor, Political,
Delegation of the European Commission to the United States,
European Union

Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Seth Jones
Political Scientist,
RAND Corporation and Adjunct Professor,
Georgetown University

Ashley Tellis
Senior Associate,
South Asia Program,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Lisa Curtis
Senior Research Fellow,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy,
The Heritage Foundation

Nonie Darwish
Author

Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute

and

The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable Chris Padilla
Managing Director,
C & M International, Ltd, and
Former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade

Rupert Hammond-Chambers
President,
U.S.-Taiwan Business Council

Walter Lohman
Director,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Featuring Keynote Remarks by:

Andrew Yarrow
Vice President and Director,
Washington DC Office,
Public Agenda

Followed by Commentaries from:

Stuart Butler
Vice President,
Domestic and Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Diane Lim Rogers
Chief Economist,
The Concord Coalition

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Senior Fellow,
Roosevelt Institute,
and Social Insurance Research Assistant,
Economic Policy Institute

Ryan Lynch
National Director,
Students for Saving Social Security

Featuring Remarks by:
General Barry R. McCaffrey (ret.)
President,
BR McCaffrey Associates LLC

Followed by Commentaries from:
Stephen Johnson
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere,
Office of the Secretary of Defense

Dr. Andrew Selee
Director,
Mexico Institute,
Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars

Dr. Ray Walser
Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America,
The Heritage Foundation

William Beach
Director,
Center for Data Analysis,
The Heritage Foundation

Victor Carrillo
Supervisor,
Imperial County, California

Lurita Doan
Former Administrator,
General Services Administration

Ron Rienas
General Manager,
Peace Bridge Authority,
New York

Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow,
Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Jena Baker McNeill
Homeland Security Policy Analyst,
The Heritage Foundation

Lewis E. Lehrman
Member of the Advisory Committee of the
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission,
and author of Lincoln at Peoria

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
President,
The Heritage Foundation

L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President,
Media Research Center

John Edward Hilboldt
Director,
Lectures and Seminars,
The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable Jim DeMint (R-SC)
United States Senator

Phillip N. Truluck
Executive Vice President,
The Heritage Foundation

OPENING KEYNOTE

S. Frederick Starr, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute,
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute,
School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University

PANEL 1 – REGIONAL SECURITY AFTER THE AUGUST WAR

Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security, The Heritage Foundation

Cory Welt, Ph.D.
Associate Director,
Eurasian Strategy Project,
Georgetown University

Colonel Jon E. Chicky
Military Faculty,
Department of Strategy and Policy,
National Defense University

Moderated by:
Helle C. Dale
Deputy Director,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis
Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

PANEL 2 – ENERGY AND PIPELINES: BACK TO THE GREAT GAME? CHALLENGES FOR THE U.S. AND EUROPE

Neil Brown
Special Advisor,
Senator Richard G. Lugar,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Fariz Ismailzade
Director,
Advanced Foreign Service Program,
Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy

Alexandros Petersen
Policy Scholar, The Wilson Center,and Adjunct Fellow,
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Moderated by:
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Russian and Eurasian Studies & International Energy Security,
The Heritage Foundation

Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute

and

The Heritage Foundation

Gerald A. Reynolds
Chairman,
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
and former Assistant Secretary of Education,
Office of Civil Rights

Todd Gaziano
Director,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation
and Commissioner,
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Charlotte Ponticelli
Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs,
U.S. Department of Labor

Brett D. Schaefer
Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs,
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom,
The Heritage Foundation

Featuring Remarks by:
Jon Alterman
Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Followed by Commentaries from:
Ilan Goldenberg
Policy Director,
National Security Network

Derek Scissors
Research Fellow,
Asia Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Mackenzie Eaglen
Senior Policy Analyst for National Security,
Douglas and Sarah Allison
Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Greg Forster, Ph.D.
Author of The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics