Kelly Bissell joined Microsoft as Corporate Vice President in 2022. Prior to this, he led Accenture’s Global Security business. With more than 25 years of security industry experience, Bissell ...

Dr. Evan Ellis is a research professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute with a focus on the region's relationships with China and other non-Western ...

Ben Buchanan is a Senior Faculty Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he directs the Cybersecurity and AI Project. Currently, Ben is an Assistant Teaching ...

Alex Bolling served 28 years in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations as Chief of Station and Deputy Chief of Station in several war zones in the Middle East, North Africa and Southwest Asia. He was ...

Carmen Landa Middleton is the former deputy executive director of the CIA. During her CIA career, Middleton served in a variety of senior positions, including the director of the Open Source Center ...

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, US Army (Ret) was the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2008-2009. Prior to that, he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for ...

Ali Soufan is a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent who investigated and supervised highly sensitive and complex international terrorism cases, including the East Africa Embassy Bombings, the attack ...

David Bridges is the senior geopolitical and security advisor at Fidelity Management and Research Company, the investment advisor for Fidelity’s family of mutual funds. In this role, Mr. Bridges ...

William Green founded TD International, a leading global advisory firm based in Washington, DC in 1999 to help clients navigate the complex and often opaque business environments in which they operate ...

Kody McKinley is a U.S. Army Special Operations noncommissioned officer with 12 years of experience and holds an M.S. in National Security from Liberty University. He has deployed multiple times ...

The question of how the U.S. should approach Iran may have answers in Iraq, irregular warfare and an unlikely figure: Muqtada al-Sadr.

On April 21, 2005, Ambassador John Negroponte was sworn in as the country’s first Director of National Intelligence. Amb.