Government & Politics speakers

April Ryan
White House Correspondent

Jonathan Evans
Director-General of the British Security Service, the United Kingdom's domestic security and counter-intelligence service

John Sitilides
Washington D.C. government affairs specialist and diplomacy consultant to the U.S. Department of State

Tara Setmayer
Political Contributer, ABC News

Souad Mekhennet
Journalist, Author

Kerry Brown
Prof of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London

Mark Malloch-Brown
Former number two in the United Nations as well as having served in the British Cabinet and Foreign Office

Sayeeda Warsi
Lawyer, politician and member of the House of Lords.

Michael Dobbs
British Conservative politician and best-selling author, most notably for his House of Cards trilogy

Bill Browder
British based Financier, Political Activist & Author

Gillian Tett
Columnist and member of the editorial board for the Financial Times - Provost King's College Cambridge

Gloria Borger
Journalist, Political Analyst

Leila McDowell
News Correspondent and Progressive Communications Strategist

Carl Bernstein
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist

Taavi Kotka
Entrepreneur and first CIO for the Government of Estonia. Pioneer of e-Estonia, the world’s most advanced digital nation, and cofounder of the world’s first e-Residency programme.

Joschka Fischer (DE)
Bundesaußsenminister, Deutschland

Aaron David Miller
Middle East Analyst & Author

Megan Smith
Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States

Bob Woodward
Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist & Author of 23 Bestsellers

Jane Mayer
Investigative Journalist/Author