Past Guest Lecturers
Students who study at The Institute of World Politics have access to several guest lecturers, many of whom are among the most prominent figures in government and the broader policy community. Here is a partial list of past guest lecturers.
Frank Cilluffo, former Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security (External Affairs); Senior Analyst, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Angelo Codevilla, Department of International Relations, Boston University; former Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; former Staff Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
Douglas J. Feith, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy
Francis Fukuyama, former Deputy Director of Policy Planning, Department of State; author, The End of History and the Last Man
Bill Gertz, National Security Correspondent, Washington Times
Richard Haver, former Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; former National Intelligence Officer for Special Activities, CIA; and former Executive Director, Intelligence Community Affairs
Peter Huessy, Senior Defense Consultant, National Defense University Foundation; President, GeoStrategic Analysis
Mark Hewitt, former Director, Defense Continuity Program Office; former Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict
David Kay, Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; former IAEA Inspection Team Leader, Iraq
Jon Kyl, U.S. Senator from Arizona; Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security
Stanislav Levchenko, former Soviet KGB officer
Michael Novak, Director of Social and Political Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Robert Reilly, then Director, Voice of America
Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
Diane Roark, then Senior Staff Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
James Schlesinger, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Secretary of Energy, and Secretary of Defense
George Tenet, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Michelle Van Cleave, former National Counterintelligence Executive; formerly Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense
R. James Woolsey, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Brig. Gen. Simon P. Worden USAF (Ret.), former deputy director of operations at SPACECOM and is a noted authority on military satellites and missile defense, and former director of the Office of Strategic Influence (OSI), at the Office of the Secretary of Defense
