Speaker History

2022-2023

• Tom Friedman and David Brooks with David Gergen
• Lonnie G. Bunch III
• Tara Stoinski
• Marlee Matlin
• Ian Bremmer
• Jonathan Haidt
• Robert P. George and Cornel West
• Martha Stewart

2021-2022

• Jon Meacham and Fareed Zakaria with David Gergen
• George W. Bush
• Jerome Adams
• Ayesha Khanna
• Walter Isaacson
• Carla Harris
• Kendra Scott

2020-2021

• Michael Beschloss and Jon Meacham with David Gergen
• David Axelrod and Karl Rove
• Spike Lee
• Arthur C. Brooks
• Tammie Jo Shults
• Kara Swisher
• Bob Costas
• Zanny Minton Beddoes
• Adm. William H. McRaven
• Paul Nicklen

2019-2020

• Robert Gates and James Stavridis with David Gergen
• Shiza Shahid
• Raj Chetty
• David Rubenstein
• Misty Copeland
• Brian Grazer
• Zanny Minton Beddoes
• David Axelrod and Karl Rove

2018-2019

• James Baker, III and Leon Panetta with David Gergen
• Jon Meacham
• Thomas Friedman
• Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Bill Browder
• Lisa Randall
• Howard Schultz
• Amy Cuddy
• Kathy Bates

2017-2018

• Richard Haass and Fareed Zakaria with David Gergen
• Amanda Lindhout
• Sarah Parcak
• Ian Bremmer
• Darren Walker with Walter Isaacson
• David Petraeus
• Shawn Achor
• Jeff Bridges

2016-2017

• Tom Brokaw and Doris Kearns Goodwin with David Gergen
• Bryan Stevenson
• Scott Kelly
• David Leonhardt
• Angela Duckworth
• Brandon Stanton
• Indra Nooyi
• Alan Alda

2015-2016

• Richard Haass and Condoleezza Rice with David Gergen
• Robert Edsel
• Shankar Vedantam
• Ken Burns
• Sarah Kay
• Rob Lowe
• Keith Alexander and Kevin Mandia
• James Carville and Karl Rove with Jim Lehrer

2014-2015

• Madeleine K. Albright and Colin L. Powell with David Gergen
• Peter Thiel
• David Brooks
• Platon
• Robin Roberts
• Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Michio Kaku
• Nate Silver

2013-2014

• Robert Gates and Leon Panetta with David Gergen
• Robert A. Caro
• Sir Ken Robinson
• Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpson
• Khaled Hosseini
• Garry Kasparov
• A.J. Jacobs
• Cokie Roberts, Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer

2012-2013

• William Bennett and Chris Matthews with David Gergen
• Regis Philbin
• Jane McGonigal
• Sanjay Gupta
• Michael Beschloss, Douglas Brinkley
• M.K. Asante, Jr.
• Niall Ferguson
• Álvaro Uribe

2011-2012

• James A. Baker, III and Fareed Zakaria with David Gergen
• Special event: Robert M. Gates
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Katie Couric
• Michael Lewis
• Dambisa Moyo
• Michael Pollan
• Walter Isaacson
• Charles Krauthammer and Bill Moyers

2010-2011

• Richard Haass and Robert Rubin with David Gergen
• Ray Kurzweil
• Michael J. Fox
• Joseph Stiglitz
• T.D. Jakes
• Joshua Cooper Ramo
• Geoffrey Canada and Margaret Spellings
• Tina Brown

2009-2010

• Thomas L. Friedman and Fareed Zakaria with David Gergen
• Clarence Thomas
• Christopher Buckley
• Buzz Aldrin
• Ian Bremmer, Stephen Hadley and Claire Shipman
• Jill Bolte Taylor
• Kenneth Cole
• Special Event: George W. Bush and Laura W. Bush
• Diane Keaton

2008-2009

• James A. Baker, III and Sam Nunn with David Gergen
• Clark T. Randt, Jr.
• Quincy Jones
• Philippe de Montebello
• Chris Jordan
• Nicholas D. Kristof
• Her Excellency President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
• Cokie Roberts

2007-2008

• Jim Lehrer and George Stephanopoulos with David Gergen
• Marcus Buckingham
• Dick Rutan and Brian Binnie
• Azar Nafisi
• Martin Sheen with Gary Cogill
• Bob Woodruff with Lee Woodruff
• Special event: Tony Blair
• Ralph J. Cicerone, Harvey V. Fineberg and Charles M. Vest
• Douglas Brinkley

2006-2007

• Tom Brokaw and Ted Koppel with David Gergen
• Lee Kuan Yew
• Anderson Cooper
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Vicente Fox
• Steve Levitt
• Jared Diamond

2005-2006

• Colin Powell with David Gergen
• David McCullough
• Eliot Spitzer
• Carly Fiorina
• Frank Gehry
• Isabel Allende
• Juan Enriquez
• Christiane Amanpour

2004-2005

• Bob Dole and Al Gore with David Gergen
• Michael Lewis
• Fareed Zakaria
• Ward Connerly and Tavis Smiley with Catherine Crier
• Ken Burns
• Laurie Garrett
• Wade Davis
• Barbara Walters

2003-2004

• Bill Cohen and George Mitchell with David Gergen
• Zahi Hawass
• Tom Clancy with Rena Pederson
• James A. Baker, III
• William Bennett, Jack Valenti with Michelle Malkin
• Stockard Channing with John Guare
• George Will
• Michael Dell with Alan Webber

2002-2003

• Thomas Friedman and Bernard Shaw with David Gergen
• Sidney Poitier
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Paul Sereno
• Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reilly
• Ward Connerly, Bob Gates and Charlie Rose
• John Irving
• Gary Hamel 
• Dick Cheney

2001 - 2002

• Jane Goodall
• Dave Barry
• Elizabeth Dole and Robert Dole
• Sandy Berger and Richard Holbrooke with David Gergen
• Francis Collins
• Robert Hughes
• David Halberstam
• Special event: Rudolph W. Giuliani
• Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward with Hugh Sidey
• Madeleine Albright

2000 - 2001

• Bill Kristol and Bill Moyers with David Gergen
• Pat Conroy
• Ambassador Richard Butler
• Walter Cronkite
• Hanan Ashrawi and Itamar Rabinovich with Tom Friedman
• Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard
• Lou Dobbs
• Robert Ballard
• Julie Andrews

1999 - 2000

• Cokie Roberts and William Safire with David Gergen
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• George Stephanopoulos
• Marvin Hamlisch
• Sam Abell and Dr. Stephen Ambrose
• F. W. de Klerk
• Ann Compton
• Newt Gingrich and Sam Nunn with Tim Russert
• Stephen Jay Gould

1998 - 1999

• Bill Moyers and George Will with David Gergen
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Professor Stephen Hawking
• Mary Matalin
• Dr. Robert Ballard
• Li Lu
• John Major
• Dick Cheney, Robert Crandall and Eckhard Pfeiffer with Jane Bryant Quinn
• President George H.W. Bush

1997 - 1998

• Bill Bradley and Jack Kemp with David Gergen
• David McCullough
• Bernadine Healy, M.D.
• General Brent Scowcroft
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• The Honorable Oscar Arias and The Honorable Lech Walesa
• Ted Turner
• Robert Reich
• Barbara Bush

1996 - 1997

• David Brinkley, Andrea Mitchell and Pierre Salinger with David Gergen
• Herb Cohen
• Carol Burnett
• Paul Harvey
• Dr. Nicholas Negroponte
• Tom Brokaw and General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
• Dr. Johnnetta Cole
• Ambassador James Laney
• James Carville, John Sununu and Judy Woodruff with Warren Rudman

1995 - 1996

• Gregory Peck
• Dr. Nannerl Keohane
• President George H.W. Bush
• Brian Mulroney
• Sam Donaldson and William Safire
• Maya Angelou
• Herbert D. Kelleher
• Peter Jennings

1994 - 1995

• General Colin Powell
• The Honorable Margaret Thatcher
• President Jimmy Carter
• Dr. Francis Collins
• Cokie Roberts
• Dr. Lester Thurow
• John Grisham
• Marian Wright Edelman
• Professor Stephen Hawking

1993 - 1994

• Larry King
• Akio Morita
• Jack Kemp
• Bill Moyers
• Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar
• Secretary Dick Cheney
• Tom Peters
• Hodding Carter III and Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick
• Benno Schmidt

1992 - 1993

• Charles Kuralt
• William Bennett and Mayor Edward Koch
• Dr. Sally Ride
• Gov. Mario Cuomo
• Dr. Red Duke
• Dan Rather
• Ambassador Vernon Walters
• Jesse Jackson

1991 - 1992

• David Brinkley Edwin Newman
• William F. Buckley, Jr and George McGovern
• George F. Will
• The Honorable Winston Churchill III
• Carlos Fuentes
• Beverly Sills
• Special event: General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

1990 - 1991

• Robert MacNeil
• Judge Robert Bork
• Dr. Henry Kissinger
• Alistair Cooke
• Art Buchwald
• William Safire
• Elizabeth Dole
• The Crisis in American Education

1989 - 1990

• Tom Brokaw
• David Stockman
• Simon Wiesenthal
• Vladimir Sakharov
• Liv Ullmann
• Tom Wolfe
• Alex Haley

1988 - 1989

• Mike Wallace
• The Honorable Caspar Weinberger
• Financial Institution and Markets for the 1990's
• Dr. Richard Leakey
• President Gerald Ford

1987 - 1988

• Sam Donaldson
• Dr. Robert Ballard
• The Right Honorable Edward Heath
• Elie Wiesel

1986 - 1987

• Drs. Christiaan Barnard and William DeVries
• Edwin Newman
• Charlton Heston
• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

1985 - 1986

• Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick
• Dr. Rollo May
• George F. Will
• Steve Allen

1984 - 1985

• Dr. Jonas Salk
• Dr. Carl Sagan
• Eric Sevareid
• Jane Bryant Quinn

1983 - 1984

• George Ball
• Ted Koppel
• Lorin Hollander
• William F. Buckley, Jr.

1982 - 1983

• Dr. Henry Kissinger
• Sander Vanocur
• Beverly Sills