International Affairs & Security speakers


Mary Aiken
World's leading forensic cyberpsychologist

Bilahari Kausikan
Singapore's Ambassador-At-Large

Tim Willasey-Wilsey
Senior British diplomat and Member of Council at Chatham House


Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
World-leading expert in Chemical and Biological weapons, Director, NGO 'Doctors Under Fire' & Advisor, Syrian Medical charity, UOSSM

Yaya Fanusie
Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security

Johanna Maska
CEO, Global Situation Room and Former White House Aide to President Obama

Alyssa Farah
American political advisor and Former White House Director of Strategic Communications

Sebastián Edwards
Professor of International Economics, UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management


Cath Bishop
Olympic Rower, Former British Diplomat and Author, ‘The Long Win: The search for a better way to succeed’


Oliver Lewis
Former Deputy Chief Negotiator in UK Government for UK-EU Trade Negotiations and Head of Research for ‘Vote Leave’

Ivan Krastev
Award winning author and renowned Political Scientist


Josep Colomer
Professor of political science, Georgetown University, Washington DC,

Matthew Pottinger
U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor (2019-2021)


Bradley Hope
Co-Author, New York Times bestseller 'Billion Dollar Whale'

Anthony Scaramucci
Investor, Author, White House Communications Director (2017) and co-host of "The Rest is Politics- US" with Katty Kay (BBC)

Andrew Heyn
British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao from 2016 to 2020

Kathryn Childers
Former U.S. Secret Service Agent

Bonnie Glaser
Expert on Chinese Foreign Policy
- Director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund.

Douglas Laux
Former War Zone Case Officer, CIA & Assessor on Bravo Channel's "Spy Games"

Robert Hannigan
Cyber Security Specialist, Former Director of GCHQ, European Executive Chairman of BlueVoyant