Past DLS Speakers
LIST OF PAST SPEAKERS:
1999
Ken Bode
Richard Morningstar
Alan Simpson
2000
David Broder
Lynn Martin
George Plimpton
John Rowland
Alan Starkey
2001
Michael Beschloss
William Kristol
Peggy Noonan
Nina Totenberg
2002
Fred Barnes
Winston S. Churchill
Frank Gaffney
Bill O'Reilly
2003
William Bennett
Tom Friedman
Larry Kudlow
Roger Pilon
2004
Karen Hughes
Richard Perle
William Roper
Tim Russert
2005
Roxanne Farmanfarmaiian
Tom Kean
Richard Lugar
Mary Matalin
Oliver North
2006
Tom Brokaw
Walter Isaacson
Dennis Ross
Shao Wen-Guang
2007
Benazir Bhutto
David Brooks
Newt Gingrich
John McCain
2008
Steve Forbes
Colin Powell
Alan Simpson
Fareed Zakaria
2009
Vernon Jordan
Perrez Musharraf
Mitt Romney
Karl Rove
2010
Ayann Hirsi Ali
Roland Fryer, Jr.
John Howard
Ben Stein
2011
Erskine Bowles
Michael Chertoff
Brit Hume
Charles Krauthammer
Joshua Cooper Ramo
2012
Charlie Cook
Mitch Daniels
Niall Ferguson
Richard Haass
Stanley McChrystal
2013
Cory Booker
Richard Clarke
Robert Gates
Robin Wright
2014
George W. Bush
Robert D. Kaplan
Leon Panetta
General Robert Scales
2015
Ian Bremmer
Dick & Liz Cheney
Mike Rogers
Stuart Varney
2016
Ken Burns
Condoleezza Rice
Bret Stephens
Eric J.Topol, M.D
2017
James Balog
Arthur Brooks
Sir Salman Rushdie
Bob Woodward
2018
Ash Carter
David Cameron
Phil Gramm
Christopher Hill
2019
Mitch Daniels, Jr.
Paul Ryan
Admiral (RET.) James Stavridis
Kimberley Strassel
2020
Alan Dershowitz
General John Kelly
Heather Mac Donald
Jon Meacham
2021 Canceled due to COVID-19
2022
The Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP
Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Brigadier General (Ret.) Robert Spalding
Rana Foroohar
2023
Sec. Mike Pompeo
General (Ret) James Mattis
Bjorn Lomborg
Walter Isaacson (rescheduled to 2024)
2024
Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr.
Shannon Bream
Karl Rove
Lawrence H. Summers
Walter Isaacson