BIG ARTS FORUM
Since 2003, BIG ARTS FORUM has offered stimulating lectures and engaging conversations with some of the most important thought leaders of our time.
2024
Commissioner William Bratton
Michael Steele
David Wasserman
Al Franken
Dr. Stephanie Edgerly
Admiral Harry Harris
Robert Kagan
Daryl Johnson
2022
Dr. Donald Berwick
Myron Brilliant
Reed Galen
Dr. Eddie S. Glaude
Jennifer Kingson
Ambassador Douglas Lute
Michael O’Hanlon
Carter G. Phillips
Dr. Michael Tanner
2021
Professor Bridgette Carr
Ambassador Peter Galbraith
Dr. Fiona Hill
Michael J. Hershman
Dr. Arin Reeves
Admiral Michael S. Rogers
Dr. Jeffrey J. Selingo
Kevin Sites
2020
Major General Brian Bishop
Dr. R. Edward Freeman
Dr. Stewart Patrick
Dr. Shannon O’Neil
Gillian Sorensen
2019
Reuben E. Brigety II
James and Deborah Fallows
Michele Flournoy
Martin Indyk
Martin Walker
Peter Wallison
Amy Walter
George Will
2018
William J. Burns
Robert Danin
Stephen Hadley
Rachel Davis Mersey
Johan Norberg
Shanker Ramamurthy
Jason L. Riley
David Shambaugh
Michael Smerconish
2017
Roger Cohen
Ann Compton
General Michael Hayden
Ambassador Christopher Hill
Karim Sadjadpour
Jeff Shesol
Constanze Stelzenmuller
Ruy Teixeira
2016
Heather Conley
Charlie Cook
Steven Cook
Susan Eisenhower
Governor Thomas Kean
Lawrence Korb
Aaron David Miller
Philip Peters
MICHAEL STEELE AMY WALTER GEORGE WILL EDDIE GLAUDE2015
Arthur Brooks
Ambassador Nicholas Burns
Kevin Carey
Ambassador Ivo Daalder
Andrew McAfee
Evan Osnos
Ambassador Dennis Ross
Karen Tumulty
2014
John Dickerson
Nicholas Eberstadt
Edward Luce
Tarek Masoud
David M. Walker
Luis Rubio
Anne-Marie Slaughter
2007
David Brooks
Nicholas Eberstadt
Ambassador Nabil Fahmy
Senator Russ Feingold
Philip Gordon
Martin Indyk
Melvin Laird
Governor Christie Todd Whitman
2013
William J. Dobson
Dr. Fiona Hill
Jane Harman
Ambassador Jon Huntsman
Rami George Khouri
Dr. Stephen Roach
Richard Norton Smith
Frank Verrastro
2012
Robert Gallucci
Deborah A. Gist
Dr. Frederick W. Kagan
Dr. Geoffrey Kemp
Desmond Lachman
Dr. Michael A. Levi
Stuart Rothenberg
Senator Alan K. Simpson
2011
Jonathan Cohn
Senator Judd Gregg
Thomas W. Lippman
M. lshaq Nadiri
Norman Ornstein
Thomas R. Pickering
Karim Sadjadpour
Paul A. Volcker
Kanan Makiya
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker
2006
Dr. George Ayittey
Richard Celeste
Frank Gaffney
Reuel Marc Gerecht
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Jim Lehrer
Ambassador Jean-David Levitte
Jennifer Windsor
Dr. Francis Fukuyama
Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Daniel C. Kurtzer
Ellen Laipson
Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan
Donna Shalala
General Anthony Zinni
2009
Dr. Akbar Ahmed
Dr. Henri Barkey
Ambassador John Bruton
Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin
Jeffrey Goldberg
Gwen lfill
David lgnatius
Robert Kagan
Aaron David Miller
2008
Anne Applebaum
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Linda Greenhouse
Robert Kaplan
Andrea Koppel
William Kristol
Michael O’Hanlon
Radek Sikorski
James Thurber
Ken Pollack
2005
Jagdish Bhagwati
Senator Susan Collins
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Lee Hamilton
Robert Kagan
Walter Russell Mead
Dwight Perkins
James Woolsey
2004
Frank Carlucci
David Gergen
Judith Kipper
Lawrence Korb
M. Ishag Nadiri
Abner Mikva
James Thurber
2003
David Audretsch
David S. Broder
Lawrence Davidson
Jose A. Gomez-lbanez
Marvin Kalb
Ted Koppel
Senator Dick Lugar
John S. Strong
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