Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

Dr. James Mulvenon
Deputy Director, Defense Group Inc.,
Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis

Daniel Blumenthal
Resident Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute

John Tkacik
Research Fellow in China Policy,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Eric A. McVadon
Director, Asia-Pacific Studies,
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis

Moderated by:

Ambassador Harvey Feldman
Senior Fellow for Asian Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Jed Babbin
Author

Rebecca Hagelin
Vice President, Communications and Marketing,
The Heritage Foundation

Phillip N. Truluck
Executive Vice President,
The Heritage Foundation

Keynote Address by:

Brigadier Andrew D. Mackay
Former Commanding General,
Civilian Police Assistance Training Team (CPATT),
Multi-National Security Transition Command -Iraq (MNSTC-I)

Panel I: Training Police Forces in Post-Conflict Environments

Michael W. Smith
Vice President, USIS International and former U.S. State Department Senior Consulant for CPATT, Counterterrorism and Special Operations Division

Karl Wycoff
Associate Coordinator for Press, Policy, Programs, and Plans, Office of Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security, The Heritage Foundation

Moderator:

Brigadier Andrew D. Mackay


Panel II: Logistics of Police Training in Post-Conflict Environments

Dean Bromiley
Vice President, DFS Logistics

Karen Nies-Vogel
Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce (Invited)

Kais Hikmet Hadi Kubba
Vice Chairman, Kubba Group, Iraq

Amy Burns
Director for Communications, Iraq Project and Contracting Office, U.S. Department of Defense

Moderator:

Dana R. Dillon
Senior Policy Analyst, Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Panel III: Force Protection

Alan Bigler
Vice President, USIS International and former Program Director, Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) Program, Bureau of Diplomatic Security,
U.S. Department of State

Bill Miller
Chief, Security and Law Enforcement Training Division, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State and former Regional Security Officer, U.S. Embassy, Baghdad

Doug Brooks
President, International Peace Operations Association (IPOA)

Moderator:

Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analyst, Defense and National Security, The Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation, USIS International, and DFS Logistics

John J. Hamre, Ph.D.
President and CEO,
Center for International and Strategic Studies

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

Opening Remarks

Phil Truluck
Executive Vice President,
The Heritage Foundation

David Hartman
President,
Lone Star Foundation

Keynote Address

Gregory Mankiw
Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisors

Panel 1: The Case for Reform

David Burton
Principal,
The Argus Group

Norman Stein
Professor of Law,
University of Alabama School of Law

Rep. John Linder (R-GA)
US Congress

Judy Xanthopoulos
Principal,
Quantria Strategies, LLC

Thomas Field
Founder,
Tax Analysts

Luncheon Address

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Director,
Congressional Budget Office

Panel 2: What Needs to Be Done?

Dan Mastromarco
Principal,
The Argus Group

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

Martin Sullivan
Contributing Editor,
Tax Notes

Stephen Entin
President,
Institute for Research on the Economies of Taxation

Jason Fichtner
Senior Economist,
Joint Economic Committee,
House of Representatives

David Burton
Principal,
The Argus Group

Welcome

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow for Homeland Security and Defense, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analysts for Defense and National Security, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Keynote Address

The Honorable Dov Zakheim
Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, and former Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Defense
Download PDF of Dov Zakheim's comments on The Quadrennial Defense Review: Some Guiding Principles

Panel 1: Service Priorities for the QDR

Ronald O?Rourke
Specialist in National Defense, Congressional Research Service

Daniel Goure, Ph.D.
Vice President, The Lexington Institute

Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analyst, Defense and National Security, The Heritage Foundation

Panel 2: Priorities for the Next QDR

Ambassador Henry Cooper
Chairman, High Frontier

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow for Homeland Security and Defense, The Heritage Foundation

Edward Bruner, Ph.D.
Specialist in National Defense,
Congressional Research Service

Hon. John Winkler, Ph.D.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Personnel, U.S. Department of Defense

Panel 1: Speaking to the World

Panelists:

Spencer Ackerman
Associate Editor,
The New Republic

Judith Yaphe
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Said Arikat
Bureau Chief,
al-Quds

Moderator:

Daniel Kaniewski
Deputy Director,
Homeland Security Policy Institute,
The George Washington University

Panel 2: Speaking to Ourselves

Panelists:

Siobhan Gorman
Homeland Security/Justice Correspondent,
National Journal

Elisa Massimino
Director, Washington DC Office,
Human Rights First

Deroy Murdock
Columnist, Scripps Howard News Service

Moderator:

Jennifer Marshall
Director, Domestic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-IL),
Chairman of the House Committee
on International Relations

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Hosted by: The Heritage Foundation

Carl-Johan Westholm
Secretary, Mont Pelerin Society,
and
Former CEO of The Swedish Federation of Private Enterprises and The Swedish Federation of Trade

Remarks by:
Matthew R. Simmons
Chairman and Founder,
Simmons & Company International

With Featured Conferees:
Peter Brookes
Director, Asian Studies Center, and Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs, The Heritage Foundation

Gal Luft
Executive Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security

Mike Rodgers
Senior Director, E&P Portfolio and Business Development Unit, Upstream Group, PFC Energy

Tara Ross
Author

With commentary by:

John Fortier
Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Dr. Lawrence J. McQuillan
Project Director,
U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2004 Report
Director, Business and Economic Studies,
Pacific Research Institute

Dr. Robert McCormick
Co-author,
U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2004 Report
Professor, John Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University

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

Chris Atkins
Advisor, Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force, American Legislative Exchange Council,
and Staff Attorney, The Tax Foundation

Daniel Clifton
Chief Economist and Federal Affairs Manager, Americans for Tax Reform

Moderated by:

Darren Gersh
Washington Bureau Chief, Nightly Business Report

Opening Remarks:

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

Presentation of The Heritage Proposal:

Alison Fraser
Director, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Commenting on Achieving True Reform:

The Honorable Lindsey Graham
U.S. Senator from South Carolina

The Honorable Jim DeMint
U.S. Senator-elect from South Carolina

The Honorable Paul Ryan
U.S. Representative from Wisconsin

Adrian Wooldridge
Author
(View PowerPoint Presentation)

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

James Jay Carafano
Senior Research Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,The Heritage Foundation

Wesley J. Smith
Author and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute

With commentary by:
David A. Prentice, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow for Life Sciences, Center for Human Life and Bioethics, Family Research Council

Joseph Loconte
William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society, The Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, The Heritage Foundation

With commentary by:

Nile Gardiner
Fellow in Anglo-American Security Policy,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Jason DeParle
Reporter, The New York Times

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

Bruce Reed
President, Democratic Leadership Council

Featuring, on the Left:

Alan Colmes
Fox Radio Network

Lionel
WOR Radio Network

Karen Hunter
WWRL New York

Stephanie Miller
Jones Radio Network

Thom Hartmann
The Thom Hartmann Show

and, on the Right:

Bill Bennett
Salem Radio Network

Michael Graham
WMAL The Nation?s Capital

Steve Malzberg
WABC New York

Shmuley Boteach
Liberty Broadcasting

Dom Giordano
WPHT Philadelphia

Michael Harrison
Editor, Talker's Magazine

Rebecca Hagelin
Vice President, Communications and Marketing, The Heritage Foundation

Justin Oberman
Director, Office of National Risk Assessment, Transportation Security Administration

Lisa S. Dean
Privacy Officer, Transportation Security Administration

Paul Rosenzweig
Senior Legal Research Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Rebecca Hagelin
Vice President, Communications and Marketing, The Heritage Foundation

John J. Miller
Author and
National Political Reporter, National Review
(View remarks)

Edwin Meese III
The Heritage Foundation

Lee Edwards, Ph.D.
The Heritage Foundation

Kenneth Boehm
National Legal and Policy Center

Roger Clegg
Center for Equal Opportunity

John Eastman
Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence

Thor Halvorssen
First Amendment Scholar and former head of FIRE

Jordan Lorence
Alliance Defense Fund

William H. Mellor
Institute for Justice

Ronald Zumbrun
The Zumbrun Law Firm
(Formerly with Pacific Legal Foundation)

Philip Jenkins, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University and the author of The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

With a response from:
Reverend Peter Phan, Ph.D.
Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University

Bill Gertz
Author

Rebecca Hagelin
Vice President, Communications and Marketing, The Heritage Foundation

Bill Gertz
Author

Rebecca Hagelin
Vice President, Communications and Marketing, The Heritage Foundation

Ronald O'Rourke
Specialist in National Defense
Congressional Research Service
(View presentation)

Commander Gregory Glaros
Office of Force Transformation
Office of the Secretary of Defense

Robert Work
Senior Policy Analyst
Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessment
(View Powerpoint presentation)

Dr. H.H. Gaffney
Director, Strategy and Concepts, Center for Strategic Studies, The CNA Corporation

Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analyst,
Defense and National Security,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation

John Steele Gordon
Author, American Heritage Columnist

John Hilboldt
Director, Lectures and Seminars, The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable Dick Armey
Former Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives

John Cohen
Special Policy Advisor for Homeland Security, Commonwelath of Massachusetts

George Foresman
Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, Commonwealth of Virginia

Dan Kaniewski
Deputy Director,
Homeland Security Policy Institute,
The George Washington University

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Homeland Security and Defense, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Joseph Antos
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
(View PowerPoint presentation)

John Sheils
Vice President, The Lewin Group

Jeff Lemieux
Executive Director, Centrists.Org
(View PowerPoint presentation)

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

Dick Wirthlin
Author and Founder, Wirthlin Worldwide

Edwin J. Feulner
President, The Heritage Foundation

Hon. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ)
U.S. House of Representatives

Nadia Diuk
Director of Central Europe and Eurasia,
National Endowment for Democracy

Taras Kuzio
Visiting Professor,
The George Washington University

Stephen Nix
Director, Eurasia, International Republican Institute

Douglas Seay
Professional Staff Member,
International Relations Committee,
U.S. House of Representatives

Damon Wilson
Director Central,
Eastern and Northern European Affairs,
National Security Council

Eugene Fischel
Senior Analyst,
Office of Russian and Eurasian Analysis,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
United States Department of State

Ariel Cohen
Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Sally C. Pipes
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Pacific Research Institute,
and author of Miracle Cure: How to Solve America?s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn?t the Answer
(View PowerPoint Presentation)

Ed Haislmaier
Visiting Research Fellow,
Center for Health Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Richard K. Baker
Principal, Timely Medical Alternatives Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia

Moderator:
Mark Crane
Editorial Writer, USA Today

William J. Bennett, Ph.D.
Distinguished Fellow in Cultural Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Mamoun Fandy, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow,
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy

Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Moderated by:
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Ali Alatas
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia

Yuli Ismartono
Executive Editor (English Edition), TEMPO

Eugene Keith Galbraith
President Commissioner, Bank Central Asia

Fu?ad Jabali
Lecturer, Graduate Studies, State Islamic University (UIN), Indonesia

Yoost Mengko
Retired Rear Admiral, Indonesian Navy

Les T. Csorba
Author 

Baker Spring
F. M. Kirby research Fellow in National Security Policy, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institutefor International Studies, The Heritage Foundation

John J. Tkacik
Research Fellow in China Policy, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Homeland Security and Defense

Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analyst,
Defense and National Security,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Paul Rosenzweig
Senior Legal Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Christopher Bolkcom
Specialist in National Defense,
Congressional Research Service

Christopher Bowie, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Air Force Strategic Planning, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs, Headquarters U.S. Air Force

Major General (Ret.) Robert McIntosh
Executive Director, Reserve Officers Association of the United States

Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analyst, Defense and National Security, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Edwin Meese, III
Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy, The Heritage Foundation

Al Felzenberg
Deputy for Communications, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Peter Brookes
Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs and Director, The Heritage Foundation

Mike Franc
Vice President, Government Relations,
The Heritage Foundation

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

The Honorable Richard Thornburgh
Of Counsel, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart

Joe Scarborough
Author

Edward F. Bruner
Specialist in National Defense,
Congressional Research Service

Brigadier General David A. Fastabend
Director, Concepts, Development, and Experimentation, Futures Center, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

Lieutenant General Theodore Stroup, Jr.
Vice President, Education: Association of the United States Army

Mary R. Habeck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History,
Yale University

John McCaslin
Author

Rebecca Hagelin
Vice President, Communications and Marketing, The Heritage Foundation

Steven E. Rhoads
Author

Patrick F. Fagan
William H. G. FitzGerald Research
Fellow in Family and Cultural Issues,
The Heritage Foundation

David A. Price
Author

Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Bart Marcois
former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs,
U.S. Department of Energy
(View Prepared Remarks)

Dr. Ariel Cohen
Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Gordon O.F. Johnson
Adjunct Scholar, Acton Institute
(View Prepared Remarks)

Don North?s documentary film
Remembering Saddam
Followed by a discussion featuring
Seven Iraqi Men
whose hands were severed in Saddam Hussein?s arbitrary act of terror
and
Don North
Producer, Northstar Production

Mike Franc
Vice President, Government Relations,
The Heritage Foundation

John Kneuer
Counselor to the Acting Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information.
U.S. Department of Commerce

Harold Furchtgott-Roth
Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises
and former Commissioner,
Federal Communications Commission

David McIntosh
Partner,Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw
and former Member of the
U.S.. House of Representatives

Peter Pitsch
Director of Communications Policy, Intel Corporation and former Chief of Staff,  Federal Communications Commission

Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analyst,
The Kathryn And Shelby Cullom Davis Institute For International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Alison Fraser
Director of Economic Policy Studies,
Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Krista Kafer
Senior Education Policy Analyst,
The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable Mehmet Ali Talat
Prime Minister of the Turkish
Cypriot Republic of Cyprus

Soner Cagaptay
2002 Soref Fellow and
Coordinator of the Turkish Research Program, The Washington Institute

John C. Hulsman, Ph.D.
Research Fellow in European Affairs,
The Heritage Foundation

John Sitilides
Executive Director,
Western Policy Center

Dr. John Hulsman
Research Fellow, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Dr. Gabriel Weimann
Research Fellow, Middle Eastern Affairs, United States Institute of Peace

Dr. Robert Leiken
Director, Immigration and National Security Programs, The Nixon Center

The Heritage Foundation and
the American Enterprise Institute

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Defense and Homeland Security,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom
Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analyst,
Defense and National Security,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom
Davis Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Daniel H. ?Stormy? Johnson, Jr., M.D.
Former President of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the World
Medical Association
(PowerPoint Presentation)

Followed By A Panel Discussion Featuring:

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

Stan Dorn J.D.
Senior Policy Analyst, Economic and Social Research Institute
(PowerPoint Presentation)

Dr. John Goodman
President, National Center for Policy Analysis

Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D.
R. W. Woodruff Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
(PowerPoint Presentation)

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

Michael Franc
Vice President, Government Relations,
The Heritage Foundation

Gov. James S. Gilmore, III
Distinguished Fellow,
The Heritage Foundation

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

The Honorable Stewart Verdery
Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, Border and Transportation Security,
Department of Homeland Security

Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director,
The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis
Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Phillip N. Truluck
Executive Vice President,
The Heritage Foundation

Hon. Peter Deutsch
(D-FL) United States Congress

William Kristol
Chairman,
Project for the New American Century

Ross Terrill
Author of The New Chinese Empire:
And What It Means for the United States

John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Arthur Waldron
Lauder Professor of International Relations, The University of Pennsylvania

Ariel Cohen, Research Fellow,
The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Intitute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation