2009
Adam Liptak – The Roberts Supreme Court in the Obama Era
Liptak is the Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times.

Phil Sharp – Energy and Climate Policy: The Heat Is Rising in Washington about What to Do
Sharp, former member of the U.S. House of Representative from Indiana, is the President of Resources for the Future.

Paul Tagliabue – Drugs and Sports: The Evolving Playbook
Tagliabue is the former Commissioner of the National Football League.

Alive Rivlin – The Future of Capitalism
Rivlin, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, was Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board.

2008
Michael Osterholm – The Next Influenza Pandemic: A Harbinger of Things to Come? 
Osterholm is Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at University of Minnesota.  

Strobe Talbott - Why Foreign Policy Issues in the 2008 U.S. Election Matter So Much to
the World
Talbott, President of The Brookings Institution, is a former Deputy Secretary of State.

Swanee Hunt – Women Waging Peace: Lessons from the Bosnian War
Hunt is Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Galia Golan – Israel, Palestine and the Chances for Peace
Golan, a founder of Peace Now, was professor of Soviet and East European studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2007
David Cole and Stuart Taylor – A Dialogue on National Security and Civil Liberties: Detention Interrogation and More
Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and author of books on civil liberties. Taylor is a National Journal columnist and senior fellow at The Brookings Institution.

Vali Nasr – The United States and the Middle East after Iraq: Taking Stock of Iran and the Shia Revival
Nasr, author of “The Shia Revival,” is a professor of Middle East and South Asia politics at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Fritz Hitz – The Deceptive Nature of Intelligence Reform
Hitz is a former Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Steven Schroeder – Critical Issues Facing U.S. Health Care: Access, Availability and Cost
Schroeder is the former President of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2006
Linda Chavez – Facing Facts About Immigration Policy
Chavez, a syndicated columnist, is the Chairman of The Center of Equal Opportunity.

Steve Bell – The Media and Politics
Bell is a professor of telecommunications at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

Steve McCormick – Protecting the Environment:  What We Can Do Nationally and Locally
McCormick is the President of the Nature Conservancy. 

Robert Scales – What’s Going On in Iraq
Scales, a retired Army Major General, is a commentator on National Public Radio and Fox News.

2005
David Brooks – Barbeque Grills and the Future of America: How Our Stratifying as a Society is Affecting Lifestyles and Politics
David Brooks is a New York Times columnist, PBS commentator, and author.

James MacNeill – Modern Environment Concerns and Sustainable Development
MacNeill was the Secretary General of the World Commission on Environment and Development.
 
John Kane – The War on Drugs and Its Effects on the Criminal Justice System
Kane is a Senior Judge in the U.S. District Court in Denver and member of various commissions on drug laws. 

Jay Garner – U.S. Policy in Iraq
Garner, a retired Army Lieutenant General, was the First Director of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq in 2003

2004
Andre Davis – Terrorism and the Courts Since 9/11: A View From The Federal Bench
Davis is a Judge in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

Strobe Talbot – Foreign Policy in an Election Year
Talbott is President of The Brookings Institution and a former Deputy Secretary of State.

E.J. Dionne – Why The American Electorate Is So Polarized
Dionne, a syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution.

Daniel Marcus – The Report of 9/11 Commission, What It Found and How It Got There
Marcus, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., is General Consul of the 9/11 Commission. 

2003
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. – The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone
Nye, Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, is the former Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance.

Changes in the American Family, a panel discussion
Sue Birch, Executive Director, Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association
Sara McLanahan, Director, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University
Irwin Garfinkle, Professor, Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia University
Belle Sawhill, The Brookings Institution.