Past Speakers
Former Ambassador Deputy Spokesperson, State Dept
U.S. Ambassador for Syria Engagement
Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia
Former Ambassador to the Republic of Malta
Former US Ambassador & distinguished Fellow & Chairman Emeritus at the Stimson Center
Former U.S. Ambassador
Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the United States
Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States
U.S Ambassador to NATO (Former)
US Ambassador to Syria (Former)
Iranian Ambassador (Former)
Co-Founder of People Demand Change, Former Syrian Diplomat
Director of Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council and Former Ambassador to Ukraine
Former Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S.
Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry Official (Former)
UK Foreign Affairs Ministry/EU (Retired)
Former German Amb. to NATO
Former Turkish Amb. to Lebanon and ICAO., Director General for Bilateral Political and Maritime-Aviation-Border Affairs (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey)
Director General for Syria, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Former U.S Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey
Former Turkish Diplomat & Chairman, Global Resources Partnership, UK
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
Retired Navy Admiral-Former EU NATO Commander
Senior Military Adviser, State Department
Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff & 34th Commandant of the US Marine Corps
Retired United States Army Lieutenant General, Former Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, Senior Counselor for International Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
26th Turkish Joint Chief of Staff General
Retired Brigadier General -16th Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
(Ret) Former Armed Forces Attache at the Turkish Embassy in Washington
Turkish Navy Rear Admiral (Ret)
Turkish Brigadier General (Ret.)
Turkish Military General(Ret)
General Commander of the Turkish Land Forces(Ret)
Brigadier General (Retired)
U.S. Army War
Military Judge (Former)
Turkish Air Force (Former)
Turkish Admiral (ret.), Director of Koc University Maritime Forum, Former THO Speaker
Former Deputy Chief of the Turkish General Staff
Turkish Navy Vice Admiral (Ret.)
U.S. Air Force (Brig. Gen. Ret.)
Four-star navy admiral who served as the commander of United States Naval Forces Europe
Retired Colonel in US Army
Lieutenant General
US Admiral
Former THO Speaker, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and former White House Official
Former THO Speaker and Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School of Government discusses America’s strategy in the Middle East
Chief Operating Officer, EastWest Institute
Director of the Heritage Foundation
Regional Deputy Director of Europe, International Republican Institute
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute; Research Professor, Georgetown University; and Commissioner, Women’s Refugee Commission
Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
President of the Global Policy Institute
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political Military Analysis at Hudson Institute
Research Professor, U.S. Army War College; Senior Fellow, Center for Global Policy
Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University
Professor of Political Science at Tennessee Technological University, THO Advisory Board member
Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council
Professor of national security and intelligence at Columbia Law School & Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism
Rector, Altinbas University
Johns Hopkins University
Bilkent University
Executive Board Member of the Council of Higher Education of Turkey
President of Koc University
President of Bogazici University
MEF University
Spokesperson, Syrian Negotiations Commission
CATO institute
Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council
AIPAC Official (Former)
Director, Atlantic Council Turkey
Georgetown University & Atlantic Council
CEO of Japan Society & Fellow at the German Marshall Fund
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
President, Bay Atlantic University
Rep. of the Syrian National Coalition to the United Nations
VP, American Enterprise Institute
Senior Fellow with the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute
Institute of International Education (IIE)
Fellow at the Center for New American Society
Coastal Carolina University & German Marshall Fund
Istanbul Bilgi University
New York University
Deputy Director of Climate and Advanced Energy at the Atlantic Council
Visiting Fulbright Scholar, SAIS Johns Hopkins
A member of Yekiti Party and the Political Commission of ENKS
President of the Independent Kurdish Association
Co-Founder of the Syrian Culture House
Syrian American Council Policy and Advocacy Officer
White Helmets Volunteer From Idlib
National Board Chairman, Syrian American Council
Department Head of International Security Studies, National Defense University
The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Uyghur Congress
CEO, Emgage Foundation
Executive Director for the Council of the United Syrians and Americans
CEO, Gulf State Analytics
Senior Navy Fellow, Atlantic Council
Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University
Co-Chair, US-Europe Alliance
Senior Fellow & Director, The Iraq Initiative, Atlantic Council
Dept. of International Relations, Middle East Technical University
Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, and the E. W. Richardson Fellow
Associate Professor of Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University, USA
Visiting Professor at George Mason University
President of the North Free Doctors Syndicate
Dept. of International Relations at Uludag University
Professor of Political Science at Boston College, and Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University
China Director at Human Rights Watch
Director of Global Advocacy at Uyghur Human Rights Project
President of Med Global
Faculty Director of Innovate Health, Yale University
Professor at the Jackson Laboratory
Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative, Scowcraft Center for Strategy and Security at Atlantic Council, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy
Professor for the Practice of International Diplomacy at Columbia University, Former U.S. State Department and National Security Council Official
Director, Global Business and Economics Program at the Atlantic Council
Senior Adviser and School Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Director of the Hariri Center and Middle East Programs, Atlantic Council
Senior Fellow and Defense Scholar, Defense Priorities
Representative of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
Representative of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America
Chairman of Center for Strategic Research, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Vice President at International Peace Institute
Senior Director of Communications at the McCain Institute
Director of Inst. of Social Sciences, Istanbul Aydin University
President and CEO, World Affairs Councils of America
President, Halifax International Security Forum
President of the Center of Mediterranean Security (CEMES)
Heritage Foundation
Chair, Department of International Relations, Middle East University
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Executive Vice President of the Atlantic Council
Author and Deputy Director of Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council
Syrian American Medical Society Chair
Professor of Political Science and Endowed Chair of International Studies, Elizabethtown College
Director of Cyprus Policy Center and a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Sabanci University
C. Boyden Gray Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the Atlantic Council
Term Faculty & Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center at the American University
Founder and Executive Director of the Syrian Community Network
Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
President of Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation
Asst. Prof. of War Studies and Security Studies at Edam Fellow at German Institute for international and Security Affairs
ASU Future of War senior fellow at New America
Professor at Department of Industrial Engineering of Boğaziçi University
Associate Fellow at King's College in London and Nonresident Fellow at Middle East Institute
Research fellow at EUROPEUM
TEPAV Area Studies Program Director
President of Center for American Relations at Bahcesehir University
Professor at Bezmialem Hospital
Scholar based in Istanbul, Turkey, working in the areas of global political economy, international business and foreign policy.
Founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
PhD candidate in Government & Politics at the University of Maryland and a Graduate Fellow in Advanced Israel Studies
Dr Mark Meirowitz is Professor of Humanities at SUNY Maritime College.
Professor of Middle East Politics at Missouri State University
Transatlantic Fellow of the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund
THO Contributor and Faculty member of the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Center for Social, Economic and Political Research at Antalya Bilim University
President of Jamestown Foundation
President of the European Center for Kurdish Studies, Germany on Kurdish groups
Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar
President Turkish Marine Research Foundation (TUDAV)
Syrian refugee in Turkey, who briefed the United Nations Security Council and Co-founder of the Families for Freedom movement
United Nations Director at Human Rights Watch
President of the United Nations General Assembly
THO Non-Resident Fellow for Syrian Refugees and Refugee Integration
THO Non-Resident Fellow for Security, Economy, and History
THO Non-Resident Fellowship Co-Chair
Director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, columnist for Al Monitor
Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Politics at Catawba College, THO Advisory Board member
LLM, Koc University and 2018 Summer Research Program participant
2018 Summer Research Program participant
2018 Summer Research Program participant
2018 Summer Research Program participant
Research fellow at New America
President of Project American Today
Co-Founder and President of the United Macedonian Diaspora
Executive Director for the Syrian Emergency Task Force
Professional Educator
Director of the Millennium Leadership Program (MLP) with the Atlantic Council
Member of THO’s Advisory Board and is a Scholar-in-Residence at SUNY Cortland
Secretary General of the European Parliament’s Turkey Forum
Syrian Activist
Co-Founder & CEO of Karam Foundation
Nonresident senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe's Turkey Project at Brookings
Nonresident fellow at New America
Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of the Migration Policy Institute
Research Assistant with the Migration Policy Institute’s International Program
Distinguished Chair in European Security at the RAND Corporation
Fellow at The Catholic University of America & THO Advisory Board Member, United States of America
Vice Rector of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy
Professor at Kadir Has University
Senior Research Fellow at the Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE) and Visiting Lecturer at the European Institute affiliated with it.
MBA (Int’l Defense & Resources Planning and Management) PhD
President of the Turkish Franchise Association
Former Congressman, Turkish Caucus Co-Founder
Co-Founder of the Turkish Caucus and Former U.S. Congressman
Co-Chairman of Turkish Caucus, Former Members of Congress
Former Senior Director, National Security Council
AER Honorary President
Senior fellow contributing to George Marshall Fund’s work on global energy, climate, and resource challenges, with a particular focus on European energy security
Former Assistant Secretary of Treasury
Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey
Turkey’s Minister of Treasury and Finance
Turkish Minister of Trade
Turkish Foreign Minister
Senior Advisor to the President of Turkey
Vice President of Turkey
Prime Minister(Former)
Deputy Prime Minister(Former)
President of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD)
Former Congressman
President of Turkish Red Crescent
UNHCR
USAID (Former Chief Economist)
Department of Defense (Former Official)
Senior Vice President, Atlantic Council, Former NSC Official
Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) & Served as Director of the Center for Strategic Research at the Institute for National Strategic Studies
Vice President in Albright Stonebridge Group’s Europe practice
National security lobbyist and media commentator & Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs in the Obama Administration
Mayor of Gaziantep and President of the Union of Municipalities of Turkey
Former Political Advisor, US Central Command
Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister
Co-Founder & CEO, Syrian Forum - First Head of an Interim Government
Former Defense Minister of the Republic of Turkey
Turkish MP, Chairman of Turkish-American Inter Parliamentary Friendship Group
U.S. Congressman, Co-Chair of Turkish Caucus
Founder of M B Long & Associates, PLLC, an international legal and advisory firm First woman confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and as Chair of NATO’s High Level Group
Elected as the Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile
House of Lords, UK Parliament, United Kingdom, member of the Parliamentary Group Friends of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Former Undersecretary of the Presidency, Former Chief Negotiator, Northern Cyprus
Turkish Deputy Minister of Trade
Turkish Defense Minister
IMF Executive Director
Executive Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Turkey Business Council
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Nonresident Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economic
President of ATC
US Representative, Invest Turkey
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Chairman, American Chamber of Commerce in China
Epidemiologist & Advisor at the World Bank
Head of TUBITAK (Turkey's leading agency for the management, funding, and conduct of research)
National Security Team Leader at The Washington Times
National Security Analyst at CNN and the Director of Communication at the Center for a New American Security
Washington Correspondent, Daily Sabah
Editor and Writer, The Washington Post
Milliyet & Posta Newspaper
CNN
CNN Turk
CCTV America
TRT World
Fellow in New America's International Security program. Former defense intelligence officer and Department of Defense foreign affairs
Producer of the Documentary, “Killing Ed”
Pentagon Correspondent, Foreign Policy
Middle East Correspondent, TRT World
Pentagon Correspondent of the Voice of America
Journalist
Washington Bureau Chief for Al-Hayat Newspaper
Global development professional, and an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker
Project Director of “Why am I in Turkey”
Part of a Prominent Group of Scholars with Extensive Fieldwork, Khan on Gulen Movement's Involvement in the Coup Attempt
News Presenter at TRT World office in London
