Students who study at The Institute of World Politics have access to outside 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 at IWP classes and events.
Col. Carl Glenn Ayers USA, chief of Psychological Operations, Joint Staff, Department of Defense
Dr. Piotr Bajda, Assistant Professor, Cardinal Wyszynski University in Poland
Timothy Beardson, Founder, Crosby Financial Holdings; China expert
Luke Bencie, President, Security Management International, LLC
Ilan Berman, Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council
Dr. Randall Bowdish, Retired Navy Captain; published author on terrorism
Shawn Brimley, former Director of Strategic Planning, White House National Security Council
Scott Carpenter, Deputy Director, Google Ideas
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
Andrew Garfield, founder, Glevum Associates; former senior military intelligence advisor to British Ministry of Defence
Bill Gertz, National Security Correspondent, Washington Times
Joel Harding, Information Operations Association
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
Michael V. Hayden, former Director, National Security Agency (NSA); former Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Max Holland, journalist; editorial board member, The Nation magazine
Dr. Paula Holmes-Eber, Professor of Operational Culture at Marine Corps University
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
Oleg Kalugin, former Soviet KGB major general
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
Andrzej Kolodziej, President, Pomorska Inicjatywa Historyczna Foundation
Francisco Lainez, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of El Salvador
Stanislav Levchenko, former Soviet KGB officer
Todd Leventhal, Director, Office to Counter International Misinformation, US Department of State
Samuel Liles, Associate Professor, Purdue University-West Lafayette
Aaron Linderman, Doctoral Candidate, Texas A&M
Clare Lockhart, CEO of the Institute for State Effectiveness
Carnes Lord, former national security advisor to the Vice President of the United States; Professor of Military and Naval Strategy, US Naval War College
Michael Maibach, Senior Fellow at The Aspen Institute, formerly President and CEO of the European-American Business Council
Brig. Gen. Jack Nicholson (Ret.), veteran of 30 years active duty
Michael Novak, Director of Social and Political Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Michael E. O’Hanlon , Senior Fellow, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence; Director of Research for the Foreign Policy Program , Brookings Institution
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 (CIA), former Secretary of Energy, and former Secretary of Defense
Maj. Gen Michael A. Snodgrass USAF (Ret), former Chief of Staff, US Africa Command (AFRICOM)
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
Col. Larry M. Wortzel (Ret.), former Director of the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College; Commissioner, US-China Economic Security Review Commission
HIH Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie, Chairman of the Crown Council of Ethiopia
Susan Yoshihara, Director, International Organizations Research Group; Senior Vice President for Research, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute