• David L. Aaron Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade (1997–2000); U.S. Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (1993–1997); Deputy National Security Advisor (1976–1980)
• Shaukat Aziz Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004–2007)
• José María Aznar Prime Minister of Spain (1996–2004)
• Cheryl C. Benard Director, RAND Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth
• Kakha Bendukidze Head of the State Chancellery of Georgia
• JudyAnn Bigby Secretary of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Carl Bildt Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs; Prime Minister of Sweden (1991–1994); Trustee, RAND Corporation (2002–2006)
• Robert Blackwill Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation; Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning (2003–2004); U.S. Ambassador to India (2001–2003)
• Susan J. Bodilly Director, RAND Education
• Harold Brown U.S. Secretary of Defense (1977–1981); Trustee Emeritus, RAND Corporation
• John E. Bryson Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President, Edison International (1990–2008)
• Frank C. Carlucci U.S. Secretary of Defense (1987–1989); Trustee Emeritus, RAND Corporation
• Albert Carnesale UCLA Chancellor (1997–2006); Member, U.S. delegation on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I); Member, RAND Center for Global Risk and Security Advisory Board
• Geoffrey Cowan University Professor and Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership, University of Southern California; Director, Voice of America (1994–1996)
• Kim Cragin International Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation
• Lynn E. Davis Director, Washington Office, RAND Corporation; Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs (1993–1997)
• Donald de Brier Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, Occidental Petroleum Corporation
• James Dobbins Director, RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center; U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan (2001–2002); Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (2000–2001); U.S. Ambassador to the European Community (1991–1993)
• Kenneth Feinberg Managing Partner, The Feinberg Group LLP; Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (2001–2005); Chair, RAND Institute for Civil Justice Board of Overseers
• Vicente Fox Founder, Vicente Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum; President of Mexico (2000–2006)
• Francis Fukuyama Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Trustee, RAND Corporation
• Stephen (Jamie) Gayton Commissioned Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Fellow, Pardee RAND Graduate School
• David C. Gompert Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation; Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush for National Security Affairs (1990–1993)
• Jonathan Grant President, RAND Europe
• John W. Handy General, U.S. Air Force (Ret.); Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (2000–2001); Trustee, RAND Corporation
• Ryan Henry Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation; Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2003–2008)
• Antonia Hernández President and Chief Executive Officer, California Community Foundation; President, MALDEF (1985–2003)
• Andrew R. Hoehn Vice President and Director, RAND Project AIR FORCE; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy (1998–2004)
• Stuart G. Hoffman Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The PNC Financial Services Group
• Robert D. Hormats Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs (International); Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Robert E. Hunter Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation; U.S. Ambassador to NATO (1993–1998)
• Jeffrey A. Isaacson Vice President and Director, RAND Army Research Division
• Brian Michael Jenkins Senior Advisor to the President, RAND Corporation; Author, Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?; Advisor, National Commission on Terrorism (1999–2000); Member, White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (1996–1997)
• Seth G. Jones Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
• Arie Kapteyn Director, RAND Labor and Population
• Lynn A. Karoly Senior Economist, RAND Corporation; Director, RAND Labor and Population (1995–2003)
• Dalia Dassa Kaye Associate Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy
• Zalmay Khalilzad U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (2005–2007); U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2003–2005); Corporate Chair in International Security (1999–2001), RAND Corporation
• Debra Knopman Vice President and Director, RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, Department of the Interior (1993–1995)
• Ann McLaughlin Korologos Chairman, RAND Corporation; U.S. Secretary of Labor (1987–1989); Cochair, Politics Aside
• Lindsey C. Kozberg Vice President for External Affairs, RAND Corporation
• Janet W. Lamkin President, Bank of America California
• F. Stephen Larrabee Distinguished Chair in European Security, RAND Corporation
• Robert Lempert Director, RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition; Member, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Paul C. Light Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
• Linda G. Martin Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation; President, Population Council (1999–2004)
• Elizabeth A. McGlynn Distinguished Chair in Health Quality, RAND Corporation; Associate Director, RAND Health
• Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty White House Chief of Staff (1993–1994)
• Thomas L. McNaugher Acting Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy; Vice President and Director, RAND Army Research Division (2001–2007)
• David Ochmanek Director, Strategy and Doctrine Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy (1993–1995)
• Olga Oliker Senior International Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation
• Paul H. O'Neill U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2001–2002); Chairman, Alcoa (1987–2000); Trustee, RAND Corporation
• William H. Overholt Senior Research Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy (2005–2008)
• Bill Owens Senior Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Studies, University of Denver; Governor of Colorado (1999–2007)
• Michael Portillo Journalist and broadcaster; Member of Parliament (1984–1997; 2000–2005) and Secretary of State for Defence (1995–1997)
• Robert Reville Director, RAND Institute for Civil Justice
• Michael D. Rich Executive Vice President, RAND Corporation; Vice President and Director, RAND National Security Research Division (1986–1993)
• Charles P. Ries Minister for Economic Affairs and Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, U.S. Embassy Baghdad (2007–2008); U.S. Ambassador to Greece (2004–2007); Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2000–2004)
• K. Jack Riley Associate Director, RAND National Security Research Division
• Leonard Schaeffer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, North Bristol Partners, LLC; Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration (1978–1980); Member, RAND Health Board of Advisors
• Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia (1994–1996)
• Carlos Slim Helú Honorary Life Chairman, Grupo CARSO, S. A. de C. V.
• James P. Smith Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies, RAND Corporation
• James A. Thomson President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND Corporation
• Michael Toman Director, RAND Environment, Energy, and Economic Development Program (2006–2008)
• Gregory F. Treverton Director, RAND Center for Global Risk and Security; Vice Chair, National Intelligence Council (1993–1995)
• Martin Wachs Director, RAND Transportation, Space, and Technology Program
• Gail Warden President Emeritus, Henry Ford Health System; Member, RAND Health Board of Advisors
• James Q. Wilson Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University; 2003 recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom; Trustee, RAND Corporation (1994–2004)
• Pete Wilson Of Counsel, Bingham McCutchen; Principal, Bingham Consulting Group; Governor of California (1991–1999)
• Charles Wolf, Jr. Distinguished Chair in International Economics and Senior Economic Advisor, RAND Corporation; Dean, Pardee RAND Graduate School (1970–1997)

This list reflects confirmed featured speakers as of October 28, 2008.