Eamon Gilmore
Eamon Gilmore concluded his mandate at the European Union’s Special Representative for Human Rights on February 29th, 2024. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (2011- 2014). Since 2015, he has been the EU Special Envoy for the Peace Process in Colombia. He was a member […]
Senator John McCain
John McCain was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982. Senator McCain’s reform agenda to reduce federal spending and lower taxes quickly elevated him to statewide office and he was elected to the United States Senate in 1986, after serving two terms in the U.S. House. In November of 2010, […]
President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States. During his tenure, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history. From war-torn Bosnia to the Battle of Mogadishu to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, he continuously played a pivotal role in international affairs. Prior to his presidency, Clinton was elected […]
Pasquale J. D’Amuro
Pasquale J. D’Amuro serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Risk & Investigative Diligence, LLC (GRID) a full-service security, crisis management and investigative consulting firm. Mr. D’Amuro also serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani Security and Safety, which he joined in April of 2005. Mr. D’Amuro’s efforts in […]
General Montgomery C. Meigs (Ret.)
General Montgomery C. Meigs served as CEO and President of Business Executives for National Security from 2010 to 2013. During his U.S Army career, he served as Commander, U.S. Army Europe from 1998 to 2002. For the first year, he also served as Commander of SFOR, NATO’s peacekeeping force in Bosnia. In addition, he commanded […]
Humera Khan
Humera Khan is the Executive Director of Muflehun, a think tank specializing in preventing radicalization and violent extremism in the American Muslim community through engagement, empowerment and the fulfillment of social responsibilities. Her combined research and experience in security strategy and Islamic Studies provide insight into analysis of recruitment and prevention mechanisms for domestic radicalization […]
Dr. Peter Neumann
Dr. Peter Neumann is founding director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, and currently serves as a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies. He is the author of five books (most recently, Old and New Terrorism, published by Polity Press in 2009) and […]
Luis Alberto Moreno
Luis Alberto Moreno assumed the presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank on October 1, 2005. He was re-elected to a five-year term during a special meeting of the Bank’s Board of Governors on July 6, 2010. As President of the Bank, Moreno also serves as Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American […]
Shiraz Maher
Shiraz Maher is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at Kings College London. He is currently writing an intellectual history of al-Qaeda, exploring the development of its political thought by drawing on hitherto unexamined material. Prior to joining ICSR, Maher was a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange […]
Richard Falkenrath
Richard Falkenrath is the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis adjunct senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations. He also currently serves as principal of the Chertoff Group, LLC. From 2006 to 2010, Falkenrath served as the New York City Police Department’s deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, where he strengthened […]
President Mikheil Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili was born on December 21, 1967. He was the President of Georgia since 2004 to 2013. When elected after the peaceful “Rose revolution” he became the youngest President in the world. Under his leadership Georgia became The World bank’s world’s number 1 economic reformer, moved from 127th place of the World Bank’s ease of […]