Politics & World Affairs speakers

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Ravi Agrawal is the Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy, the world’s leading website and print magazine on international relations and author of INDIA CONNECTED: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.

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Bestselling author of White Rage & One Person, No Vote

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One of the foremost authorites on foreign policy and world affairs

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Senior National Correspondent for NPR News

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• Award-winning journalist, author, media executive

• Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy

• National political correspondent for NBC News

• Co-author of #1 NY Times Bestseller 'Shattered'

• Bestselling author of White Rage & One Person, No Vote

• Human and civil rights advocate

• Expert on African American history & 20th century politics

• Associate Professor of Practice of International and Public Affairs at Brown University's Watson Institute

• Senior Fellow of The Growth Lab at Harvard Center for International Development

• Award-winning NPR National Desk reporter covering the Pentagon

Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

• Scholar at American Enterprise Institute & Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

• Author of the book Goodbye, Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024)

• Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

• Award-winning foreign correspondent

• Author of Samsung Rising


• Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Washington Correspondent at the Independent

• Author of We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

• Founder of The Brown Girls Guide to Politics

• President of Emerge 

• Global Director of Research for More in Common, overseeing studies on the psychology of political division in nine countries

• Author of Fragile Neighborhoods (2023)

• Professorial Lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University

A longtime geopolitical expert, historian and bestselling author

The Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal 

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute

James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College

• Global political risk & security analyst

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter

• Author of The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took over Big Government

• Author of Stealth of Nations & Shadow Cities on the power of the informal economy 

• Senior Editor at The Atlantic

Host of the podcasts, Floodlines and Holy Week


Deputy editor at Foreign Policy and expert on all things China

• Author of The Death of Mao and The Bloody White Baron

• Senior White House Correspondent at The Hill & CNN Political Analyst

• Co-author of #1 NY Times Bestseller 'Shattered' 

Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist and former executive editor of The New York Times

• Author of several books, most recently Silent Cavalry (2023)

• Journalist & leading political commentator on elections & politics

• Political correspondent 

• Author of The People Are Going To Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shore


• Reporter for TIME covering Russia and Ukraine; author of The Fight Is Here: Volodymyr Zelensky and the War in Ukraine


• Former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence 

• Expert on international cyber security & other geopolitical issues 

• Edward R. Murrow recipient and 7-time Emmy Award-winning CBS News National Correspondent


• Senior National Correspondent for 'NPR News' giving a veteran's take on today's news