Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

Marlene Johnson
Executive Director and CEO,
NAFSA: Association of International Educators

Clarence W. (Wes) Kitchens
Technical Fellow,
Science Applications International Corporation

Kei Koizumi
Director,
R&D Budget and Policy Program,
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Marek Chodakiewicz, Ph.D.
Academic Dean and Professor of History,
Institute of World Politics

H.E. Janusz Reiter
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland

Randall Shriver
Partner,
Armitage Associates, and
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs

Dr. Shelley Rigger
Brown Associate Professor of East Asian Politics,
Davidson College

Dr. Vincent Wei-sheng Wang
Coordinator of International Studies,
University of Richmond

Larry P. Arnn, Ph.D.
President,
Hillsdale College

Richard Vedder
Director,
Center on College Affordability and Productivity,
and
Author of Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much

The Honorable George J. Terwilliger III
Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States (1991-93)

The Honorable Larry D. Thompson
Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States (2001-03)

With Introductory Remarks by
Edwin Meese III
Chairman, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

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

Carolyn Bartholomew
Vice Chairman,
United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Daniel A. Blumenthal
Commissioner,
United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission

Thomas Donnelly
Commissioner,
United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission

The Hon. Patrick A. Mulloy
Commissioner,
United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission

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

Professor Uri Ra’anan
Director,
Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy,
Boston University, and
Editor of Flawed Succession

Stephen J. Blank, Ph.D.
Research Professor of National Security Affairs,
Strategic Studies Institute,
U.S. Army War College, and
Contributor to Flawed Succession

Michael P. Smith
President,
Reserve Officers Association

and

Mackenzie Eaglan
Senior Policy Analyst,
National Security,
The Heritage Foundation

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

Robert Spencer
Author

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

Jesús Mena
Chief Strategy Officer,
InferX Corporation

Marcus H. Sachs, P.E.
Deputy Director,
Computer Science Laboratory,
SRI International

David Strand
Vice President,
Information Technology,
ECD Ovonics

Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Author of Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges

Carl Minzner
Visiting International Affairs Fellow,
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Moderator
Amb. Harvey Feldman
Distinguished Fellow in China Policy,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Peggy Binzer
Counsel,
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

David Siegrist, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Potomac Institute

Morley Stone, Ph.D.
Branch Chief,
Hardened Materials & Manufacturing Directorate,
Air Force Research Laboratory/Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Ken Ballen
President,
Terror Free Tomorrow

Mark Ward
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East,
USAID

Col. Christopher Allen
Director,
U.S. Special Operations Command

Jeremiah Norris
Director,
Center for Science and Public Policy,
The Hudson Institute

The Honorable Condoleezza Rice
United States Secretary of State

Mark Esper
Executive Vice President,
Aerospace Industry Association of America

Robert Bauerlein
Vice President,
The Boeing Company

Charles Jameson
Vice President,
Northrop Grumman Corporation

The Honorable Arun Shourie
Member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament and
former Minister for Disinvestment

Dr. David Gratzer
Author

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

Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D.
Colonel,
United States Army (Ret.)

Andrew Scobell, Ph.D.
Research Professor of National Security Affairs,
Strategic Studies Institute,
U.S. Army War College

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

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

KEYNOTE REMARKS

Dr. John Gannon
Vice President,
BAE Systems and
former Chief of Staff,
House Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee

MARINE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL’S (MTSNAC) MARITIME TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM & GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN EDUCATIONAL OVERVIEW

John Gaughan
Chairman,
Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council

Theodore (Ted) Prince
Vice President,
Kansas City Southern

MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS PRESENTATION

Dana Goward
Director,
Maritime Domain Awareness Program,
US Coast Guard

POLICY ISSUES AND THE IMPACT OF SECURITY CHALLENGES ON THE MARITIME TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE – Part 1

Kim Petersen
Executive Director,
Maritime Security Council

Rosa Baumanis Hakala
Senior Vice President,
GeoLogistics Americas Inc.

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
The Heritage Foundation (Moderator)

POLICY ISSUES AND THE IMPACT OF SECURITY CHALLENGES ON THE MARITIME TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE – Part 2

Richard Lolich
MARAD Office of Ports and Domestic Shipping

SUMMARY AND CLOSING REMARKS (3:45 p.m.)

Philip Murray
Chairman,
Maritime Security Council

CHAIRMAN’S RECEPTION (4:00 to 6:00 p.m.)

The Heritage Foundation

and

The Maritime Security Council

Robert Fiedler
Director,
Strategic Defense Education,
The Reserve Officers Association

and

Mackenzie M. Eaglen
National Security Analyst, 
The Heritage Foundation

Stephen Blank
Research Professor of National Security Affairs,
U.S. Army War College

Sumit Ganguly
Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University

Sung-Yoon Lee
Research Associate,
Korea Institute,
Harvard University

Yuki Tatsumi
Research Fellow,
The Henry L. Stimson Center

Bill Allison
Sunlight Foundation

N.Z. Bear
Truthlaidbear.com

Rebecca Carr
National Correspondent,
Cox Newspapers

Justin Rood
TPMmuckraker.com

Mark Tapscott
Washington Examiner

Walton Francis
Economist and author of CHECKBOOK’s Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees

David B. Kendall
Senior Fellow for Health Policy,
Progressive Policy Institute

Thomas P. Miller
Resident Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute

With Keynote Remarks by:
The Honorable Alex M. Azar II
Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services

Hernando de Soto
President,
Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD)

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

Michael Needham
Director,
Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation

Colonel Michael Meese
Professor and Head of the Department of Social Sciences,
United States Military Academy

General (Ret.) Wayne Downing

Chairman,

Combating Terrorism Center,

United States Military Academy

David Goldfischer

Director,

Institute of Globalization and Security,

The University of Denver

Margaret M. Sanders
Senior Fellow,

Institute of Globalization and Security,

The University of Denver

Scott Bates
Vice President and Senior Fellow for National Security,
Center for National Policy

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

John Hilboldt
Director,
Lectures and Seminars,
The Heritage Foundation

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

Featuring Panel Discussions on:

FOCUSED SECURITY

Zvi Kremer
Senior Consultant,
Harbinger Technologies Group

Sharon Pinkerton
Vice President,
Government Relations,
Air Transport Association

Robert W. Poole
Director of Transportation Policy,
Reason Foundation

COUNTER-MAN AIR PORTABLE DEFENSE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY

Tom Blank
Vice Chairman,
Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates

Jack Pledger
Director,
IRCM Business Development,
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Mark P. Slivinski
Vigilant Eagle Capture Leader,
Raytheon Missile Systems

His Excellency Jarosław Kaczyński
Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland

Note: A simultaneous English translation will be available for our Auditorium guests.

Dr. Walter Andersen
Acting Director,
South Asia Studies Program,
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University

Ambassador Teresita Schaffer
Director,
South Asia Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Dr. Marvin Weinbaum
Scholar-in-Residence,
Middle East Institute

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Government and
Director of the Washington Program at
Claremont McKenna College, and
Author of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism

With Commentary from:
Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D.
F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute, and
Author of Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders

Keynote Speaker:

James Gilmore, III
Former Chair of the Gilmore Commission

Panel:

Becky Baum
Special Assistant to the Executive Director,
Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration

Lieutenant Colonel Pete Schneider
Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff,
Louisiana National Guard Joint Force Headquarters

Dr. J. Doug Stringer
Founder and President, 
Turning Point Ministries and
Founder,
Somebody Cares America

Lisa Hamilton
Public Affairs Manager,
United Parcel Service of America

James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Douglas and Sarah Allison
Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

2:00 P.M.
The '96 Reform: What It Was and Why It Worked

Kate O?Beirne
National Review (Moderator)

Eloise Anderson
The Claremont Institute

Ron Haskins
The Brookings Institution

Michael Wiseman
George Washington University

Robert Rector
The Heritage Foundation

3:00 P.M.
Welfare Reform in America and Abroad

Matthew Weidinger
U.S. House of Representatives Human Resource Subcommittee (Moderator)

June O?Neill
Baruch College

Mark Greenberg
Center for Law and Social Policy

Lawrence Mead
New York University

Jason Turner
The Heritage Foundation

4:00 P.M.
Building on the Foundation

The Honorable Wade Horn
Administration for Children and Families,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

John Hasnas, J.D., Ph.D., LL.M.
Associate Professor of Business, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Brad Berenson
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

Ron Tenpas
Associate Deputy Attorney General,
U.S. Department of Justice

Moderator:
Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
Founder and President,
Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny

Ward Connerly
Founder and Chairman,
American Civil Rights Institute

Kerr Johnson
President,
Kerrent Electric, and
BOND Board Member

Patrick F. Fagan
FitzGerald Research Fellow in
Family & Cultural Issues,
The Heritage Foundation

Reverend Grant Storm
Minister and New Orleans Activist

John H. McWhorter, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow,
The Manhattan Institute
and Author of Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

David J. Kramer
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Eurasian Affairs,
U.S. Department of State

Andrew Kuchins, Ph.D.
Senior Associate and Director,
Russian and Eurasian Program,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Angela Stent, Ph.D.
Professor and Director,
Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies,
Georgetown University, and
former National Intelligence Officer,
Russia and Eurasia

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

Panel I (11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon)

Gregory Garre
Principal Deputy Solicitor General,
U.S. Department of Justice

Tom Goldstein
Partner,
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Andrew McCarthy
Senior Fellow,
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

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

Panel II (12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.)

Charles Lane
Supreme Court Correspondent,
The Washington Post

Stephen Henderson
Supreme Court Correspondent,
McClatchy Newspapers

Greg Stohr
Supreme Court Correspondent,
Bloomberg News

Moderator:
Todd Gaziano
Director,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Introduction by:

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

PANEL 1: INDIA AND THE STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP (9:00 a.m.)

Brigadier Arun Sahgal, Ph.D.
Deputy Director,
Strategic Studies,
United Service Institution of India

Stephen Cohen, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution

John Schlosser
Director,
Office of South Asian Regional Affairs,
Department of State

BREAK

PANEL 2: TRADE AND ECONOMICS (10:40 a.m.)

Kiran Pasricha
Deputy Director,
Council of Indian Industries

Daniella Markheim
Trade Analyst,
The Heritage Foundation

Ambassador Douglas Hartwick
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative,
South Asia

LUNCH

KEYNOTE (1:00 p.m.)

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)

PANEL 3: THE UNITED STATES, INDIA AND ENERGY SECURITY (1:30 p.m.)

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

Michael Gadbaw
Vice President & Senior Counsel,
International Law & Policy,
General Electric

K. Alan Kronstadt
Analyst in Asian Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
Defense and Trade Division,
Congressional Research Service

Panels moderated by:

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

William J. Bennett
Author and
Host,
Bill Bennett's Morning in America

The Honorable Mike Rogers (R-MI)
Member,
House Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Health

The Honorable Tom Coburn (R-OK)
United States Senate

Eric Shawn
Author and Fox News Anchor

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

Hon. Fumio Kyuma
MP, Liberal Democratic Party
(Former Minister of Defense)

Hon. Tokuichiro Tamazawa
MP, Liberal Democratic Party
(Former Minister of Defense)

Hon. Gen Nakatani
MP, Liberal Democratic Party
(Former Minister of Defense)

James Bodner
The Cohen Group

Stanley O. Roth
Former Assistant Secretary of State for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Balbina Y. Hwang, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst,
Northeast Asia,
The Heritage Foundation

Carrie Lukas
Author

Keynote Remarks by:

The Honorable Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
United States Senate

With a panel discussion following:

William R. Hawkins
Senior Fellow,
The U.S. Business & Industry Council

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

Jeff Hamond
Economic Policy Director,
Office of Senator Charles Schumer

Moderated by:

Ambassador Harvey Feldman
Distinguished Fellow,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

Capt. James Howe
Chief,
Congressional Affairs,
U.S. Coast Guard

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

Peter Swartz
Senior Analyst,
Center for Naval Analyses

Dr. Loren Thompson
Chief Operating Officer,
The Lexington Institute

H.E. Dr. Ali Abdul Ameer Allawi
Minister of Finance, The Republic of Iraq

Dr. Sinan al-Shabibi
Governor,
Central Bank of Iraq

Suhaib Albarzinji
Program Officer, Iraq,
Center for International Private Enterprise

Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D.
Vice President,
Foreign and Defense Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Co-Hosted and Moderated by:
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
Defense and Homeland Security,
Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

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

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

Jeanne Shaheen
Director,
Harvard University's Institute of Politics,
and
Former Governor of the State of Vermont

David King
Harvard Lecturer in Public Policy,
and
Director of Research,
Harvard University's Institute of Politics

John Della Volpe
Partner,
Prime Group LLC

Krister Anderson
Survey Co-Chair and
Harvard University Class of 2007

Caitlin Monahan
Survey Co-Chair and
Harvard University Class of 2006

Karlyn H. Bowman
Resident Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute

Ruy Teixeira
Senior Fellow,
The Century Foundation

Karen Harbert
Assistant Secretary for
Policy and International Affairs,
U.S. Department of Energy

Gustavo Coronel
Former Board Member,
Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A.

R. Kirk Sherr
Principal Member,
The Scowcroft Group

Carl Meacham
Senior Professional Staff Member,
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Stephen Johnson
Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America,
The Douglas and Sarah Allison
Center for Foreign Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D.
Vice President,
Foreign and Defense Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Hugh Hewitt
Bestselling author and Talk Radio Host

Fred Barnes
Executive Editor,
The Weekly Standard

and

Bob Beckel
FOX News Analyst and
Democratic Campaign Expert

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

Mark Tapscott
Director,
Center for Media and Public Policy,
The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable Norm Coleman (R-MN)
United States Senator

Introduction by:

Mark P. Lagon
Deputy Assistant Secretary,
United States Department of State

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

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

On Education Data:
Dr. Kirk Johnson
Senior Policy Analyst,
Center for Data Analysis,
The Heritage Foundation

On Social Science Data:
Dr. Heather Boushey
Economist,
The Center for Economic and Policy Research

On Crime Data:
Dr. David Mulhausen
Senior Policy Analyst,
Center for Data Analysis,
The Heritage Foundation

Sunshine Week: Your Right to Know
A Project of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
with support from the Knight Foundation

The Honorable Claude Bolton
(PowerPoint Presentation)
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology

James Jay Carafano
Senior Research Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security, The Heritage Foundation

Ginger M. Cruz
Deputy Inspector General, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)

Ambassador James Jeffrey
Senior Advisor for Iraq to the Secretary of State

Jim Phillips
Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation

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

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

Dr. Christopher Harmon
Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency & Terrorism,
Marine Corps University

Dr. Kenneth Katzman
Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs,
Congressional Research Service

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

Michael Kraft
Counterterrorism Consultant

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

Josh Eisenman
Fellow in Asia Studies,
American Foreign Policy Council

Dr. R. Evan Ellis
Associate,
Booz Allen Hamilton

Stephen Johnson
Senior Policy Analyst,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis
Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

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

Ambassador Harvey Feldman
Distinguished Fellow in China Policy,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

The Honorable R. Nicholas Burns
Under Secretary for Political Affairs
U.S. Department of State

Dr. Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate,
Harvard University?s Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies and
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and Associate Professor,
The Whitehead School of
Diplomacy and International Relations,
Seton Hall University

Dr. Stephen J. Blank
Research Professor,
U.S. Army War College

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

Adnan Vatansever
Associate Fellow, 
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security

Moderator

Andrew Kuchins
Senior Associate,
Russia and Eurasia Program,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Thomas L. Bock
National Commander,
The American Legion

Steve Short
Command Sergeant Major (Ret.),
U.S. Army

Jennifer Daskal
Advocacy Director,
U.S. Programs,
Human Rights Watch

Bryan Del Monte
Deputy Director, Policy Development and International Issues, Office of Detainee Policy,
U.S. Department of Defense

James L. Swanson
Author

Richard Miniter
Author and Journalist

Kamal Nawash
President,
Free Muslims Coalition Against Terrorism

Mike Rolince
Senior Associate,
Booz Allen Hamilton

Dell Spry
Former Special Agent,
FBI

Aaron Mannes
Author of Profiles in Terror

Moderated by:

Stephen Johnson
Senior Policy Analyst,
Latin America,
The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis
Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

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

Welcome

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

Keynote Remarks

The Hon. Josette Shiner
Under Secretary of State for
Economic, Business & Agricultural Affairs

Panel I ? Trade and Economics

Daniella Markheim
Senior Policy Analyst,
Center for Data Analysis,
The Heritage Foundation

Rick Rossow
Director,
U.S. - India Business Council

Esperanza Gomez
Executive Director,
U.S.-Pakistan Business Council

Panel II ? India, Pakistan and the U.S.: The Strategic Relationship

Veena Siddharth
Advocacy Director,
Asia,
Human Rights Watch

Stephen Cohen
Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution

Col. David Smith (Ret.)
Former Defense Attaché to Pakistan

Lunch Address

William Cohen
Former Secretary of Defense

Panel III ? Next Steps

Peter Ahlf
Director,
Science Division,
External Relations,
NASA

James George Jatras
Partner,
Venable LLP

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

Johnny Munkhammar
Author

Bridgett G. Wagner
Director,
Coalition Relations,
The Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation

The Retirement Security Project

and

AARP

William Baker, Ph.D.
(PowerPoint Presentation)
Chief Scientist,
Directed Energy Directorate Air Force Research Laboratory

Colonel Craig A. Hughes, USAF
(PowerPoint Presentation)
Office of Force Transformation,
Office of the Secretary of Defense

Lieutenant Colonel Jim Wallace
(PowerPoint Presentation)
Deputy Director,
Combat Capabilities Division,
Air Force Combat Support Office,
United States Air Force

Daniel Wildt, Ph.D.
(PowerPoint Presentation)
Director of Business Development,
Directed Energy Systems,
Northrop Grumman

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

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

Shibley Telhami, Ph.D.
Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, The University of Maryland

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Ph.D.
Research Fellow,
The Saban Center for Middle Eastern Policy,
The Brookings Institution

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

R. James Woolsey
Former Director,
Central Intelligence Agency, and
Vice President,
Booz Allen Hamilton

Todd Gaziano
Director,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation

Mark P. Lagon
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs,
U.S. Department of State

Ted Piccone
Executive Director,
Democracy Coalition Project

Joe Loconte
William E. Simon Fellow in
Religion and a Free Society,
The Heritage Foundation

Lee Feinstein
Deputy Director of Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations

Anne Bayefsky
Senior Fellow,
Hudson Institute;
Professor,
Touro Law School;
and
Editor,
EyeontheUN.com

Ambassador Petr Kolar
Embassy of the Czech Republic

Ambassador John Bruton
Delegation of the European Union
to the United States

Ambassador Janusz Reiter
Embassy of Poland

Ambassador András Simonyi
Embassy of Hungary

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

Lisa Curtis
Professional Staff Member,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Frank Jannuzi
Professional Staff Member,
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Dennis Halpin
Professional Staff,
House Committee on International Relations

Jacob Kurtzer
Legislative Assistant,
U.S. Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL)

Dino Teppara
Legislative Director,
U.S. Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC)

Andrew Apostolou
Contributor,
U.S.-U.K. Relations at the Start of the 21st Century

Michael Calingaert
Visiting Scholar,
Center on the United States and Europe,
Foreign Policy Studies,
The Brookings Institution

John C. Hulsman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow,
European Affairs,
The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom,
The Heritage Foundation

Colonel Jeffrey D. McCausland, Ph.D. (Ret.) Director,
Leadership in Conflict Initiative,
Department of International Studies,
Dickinson College

Moderated by:

Douglas T. Stuart
J. William Stuart and Helen D. Stuart
Chair In International Studies, Business & Management,
Stern Center,
Dickinson College

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

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

William Perry Pendley
Author and President, 
Mountain States Legal Foundation

Frank J. Donatelli
Chairman,
Reagan Ranch Board of Governors

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

Amb. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute

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

Dick Cheney
Vice President of the United States

Phillip N. Truluck
Executive Vice President,
The Heritage Foundation

Ambassador James Dobbins
Director,
International Security and Defense Policy Center,
RAND Corporation

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

John Norris
Washington Chief of Staff,
International Crisis Group

Charles A. Kupchan, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow and Director for Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations