
2011 Speakers

Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman, Coalition of Change and Hope, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Madeleine Albright,Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group, and Former U.S. Secretary of State
Maryam Al-Khawaja, Head of the foreign relations office at the Bahrain Riz Khan, Host, The Riz Khan Show, Al Jazeera English
Hafez Al-Mirazi, Director, Adham Center for Journalism
Mohammed Abdullah Mutib Al Rumaihi, Assistant Foreign Minister for Follow-Up Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar
Salahuddin Aminuzzaman, Professor of Public Administration, University of Dhaka
Hossam Bahgat, Founder and Director, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)
Howard Berman, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
David Brooks, Columnist, The New York Times
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Robin Bush, Country Representative, The Asia Foundation
Yasmin Busran-Lao, Executive Director, Al-Mujadilah Development Foundation
Daniel Byman, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution
Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Robert J. Einhorn, Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, U.S. Department of State
Khaled Elgindy, Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution
Keith Ellison, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
Nabil Fahmy, Founding Dean, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, American University of Cairo; former Ambassador of Egypt to the U.S.
Jose Fernandez, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic Energy and Business Affairs
Stephen Grand, Director, Project on U.S.-Relations with the Islamic World, The Brookings Institution
David Gregory, Host, NBC’s Meet the Press
Shadi Hamid, Director of Research and Fellow, Brookings Doha Center
Ibrahim Kalin, Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister, Republic of Turkey
Rashad Hussain, Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Visiting Professor, Center on Religion, Culture, and Conflict, Drew University Center for Human Rights
Anwar Ibrahim, Parliamentary opposition leader; former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General, Organization of the Islamic Conference
Martin Indyk, Vice President of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Nasser Judeh, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Ibrahim Kalin,Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister, Republic of Turkey
Hisham Kassem, Former publisher, Cairo Times and Al-Masry Al-Youm
John Kerry, Senator and Chairman, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Joe Klein, Columnist, TimeMagazine
Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research Center
Robert Malley, Middle East and North Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group; former Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs
Hisham Melhem, Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Arabiya News Channel
Dalia Mogahed,Senior Analyst, Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Gallup Center
Paul Monteiro, Associate Director, Office of Public Engagement, White House
Robert Mosbacher, Former Chief Executive Officer of the Overseas Private
Martin O’Malley, Governor, State of Maryland
Farah Anwar Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities, U.S. Department of State
Kenneth Pollack, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution
Sherry Rehman, President, Jinnah Institute
Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution
Dennis Ross, Senior Director for the Central Region, National Security Council
Mahmoud Salem, Blogger, Rantings of a Sandmonkey
Salman Shaikh, Director, Brookings Doha Center
Hassina Sherjan, Founder and CEO, Aid Afghanistan for Education
Mohammad Shtayyeh, Former Minister of Public Works and Housing and Minister in Charge of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR)
Aref Tayfour, Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Republic of Iraq
Shibley Telhami, Non-Resident Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution; Anwar Sadat Chair, University of Maryland
Toni Verstandig, Executive Director, the Aspen Institute
Bryan Wagner, VP Global Sustainable Finance, Morgan Stanley
Margaret Warner, Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Dov Weissglas, Senior Partner, Weissglas-Almagor; former Chief of the Prime Minister’s Bureau and Special Foreign Advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Quintan Wiktorowicz, Senior Director for Global Engagement, White House
Jennifer L. Windsor, Associate Dean for Programs, Georgetown University
Michael Young, Opinion Editor, The Daily Star
Fareed Zakaria, Editor-at-Large, TIME Magazineand host, CNN’s GPS






