World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth

Bill Browder - Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Hermitage Capital Management

International Educator of the Year Award Luncheon - Malcolm Gladwell - David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

Author of five New York Times bestsellers

A Conversation with Secretary Leon Panetta - Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace

Secretary of Defense (2011-2013); Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2011)

George Friedman - Flash Points: The Emerging Crisis in Europe

Chairman and Founder, Stratfor

Steve LeVine - The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

Washington Correspondent, Quartz

David Axelrod - Believer: My Forty Years in Politics

Senior Advisor to President Obama (2009-2011); Institute Director, The University of Chicago Institute of Politics

Ambassador Christopher Robert Hill - Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir

Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; Former Ambassador to Iraq, Poland, Republic of Macedonia and Special Envoy to Kosovo

A Conversation with Senator Ted Cruz

His Excellency Yousef Al Otaiba

Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States

Ben Blink - Freedom and Power in the Digital Age

Senior Policy Analyst, Google

Contributors' Circle - John Seigenthaler, News Anchor, Al Jazeera America

Introduced by Ambassador James K. Glassman, former executive director, George W. Bush Institute

Major General James Williams - A Conversation on Iraq, Afghanistan, the Islamic State and Beyond

USMC (retired)

Erin Meyer - The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

Professor and Program Director, INSEAD

Louisa Lim - The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited - Addison

Beijing Correspondent, National Public Radio

His Excellency Sergey Kislyak

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States

Helene Gayle - Pathways to Empowerment: Helping Women Create Real Change

President and CEO, CARE

Russell Gold - The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

Senior Energy Writer, The Wall Street Journal

Public Opinion & White House Decision Making

Mark Penn, Pollster for President Bill Clinton; Jan van Lohuizen, Pollster for President George W. Bush; Moderated by Mark Kennedy, Director, George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management

Bill White - America’s Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph and Collapse

Michael O’Hanlon - Strategic Reassurance and Strategic Resolve in the U.S.-China Relationship

Senior Fellow, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Brookings Institution

NAFTA After Twenty Years

Pia Orrenius, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Antonio Ortiz-Mena, Head of Section, Economic Affairs, Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming

Shibley Telhami - The World Through Arab Eyes

Clement Leung - Hong Kong: Your Access to China and Asia

Hong Kong Commissioner to the United States, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

James Tobin - The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency

A. Scott Berg - Wilson

Learning from Iraq

Kip Tindell - Organization with Heart

Rajiv Chanderasekaran - Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan

Ambassador of Indonesia to the U.S.