International Affairs & Security speakers
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Gideon Rachman
Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times
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Mark Sedwill
National Security Adviser (2017-20)
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Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer prize winning author and acclaimed writer on International Affairs and Foreign Policy
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Mark Leonard
Expert on Geopolitics and Geoeconomics
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Ryan Hass
Top Level Adviser on International Relations - US and Asia
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Thomas J. Wright
Incisive analyst of geopolitics, security and foreign policy
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Tina Fordham
Geostrategist for Business and Markets - Founder, Fordham Global Foresight - Author of 'Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders' (2026)
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Maha Aziz
Author, Illustrator and Professor at New York University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
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Edward Lucas
Independent Expert in European and Transatlantic security
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David Pilling
Associate Editor & Africa Editor - Financial Times
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A. Wess Mitchell
American Foreign Policy Expert, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
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Kurt Volker
U.S Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (2017-19) - US Ambassador to NATO (2008-09)
Basim Al-Ahmadi
Political Risk and Strategy Consultant
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Jeremy Hunt
Chancellor of the Exchequer (2022-2024) - Secretary of State for Health (2012-2018)
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Suzanne Williams
International Hostage Negotiator
Toomas Ilves
Former President of Estonia
Jonathan Hill
Expert on the EU's financial services sector
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James Crabtree
Author - Former Executive Director of the Asia office of the International Institute of Strategic Studies
Arlene Foster
First Minister of Northern Ireland on two occasions (between 2016-21) and Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) (2015-21)
Frank McKenzie
Commander of the United States Central Command, 2019-22
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