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 upcoming 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

• 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