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Beverley McLachlin

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Swanee Hunt

Chair, Institute for Inclusive Security

Mark Udall

Senator, United States; and Co-Chair, Halifax International Security Forum Congressional Delegation

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg

Distinguished Statesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Mark Carney

Governor, Bank of Canada

Lyse Doucet

Presenter, BBC World News and World Service Newshour

Raghida Dergham

Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Hayat

Bill McCaffrey

President and CEO, MEG Energy Corp.

Ehud Barak

Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister, Israel

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Condoleezza Rice

Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy, The Hoover Institution

Michèle Flournoy

Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, United States

Oscar Izurieta

Undersecretary of Defense, Chile

Song Min-soon

Member, National Assembly, South Korea

Hina Jilani

Advocate of the Supreme Court, Pakistan

Zaffar Abbas

Editor-in-Chief, Dawn, Pakistan

John McCain

Senator, United States; Co-Chair, Halifax International Security Forum Congressional Delegation

Ljubica Jelušič

Minister of Defense, Slovenia

Jeanne Shaheen

Senator, United States

Janet Napolitano

Secretary of Homeland Security, United States

Gideon Rose

Editor, Foreign Affairs

Peter MacKay

Canadian Minister of National Defence

Walter Natynczyk

Chief of the Defence Staff, Department of National Defence, Canada

Victor Toews

Minister of Public Safety, Canada

Pamela Wallin

Senator, Canada

Leon Panetta

Secretary of Defense, United States

Steven Clemons

Senior Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation

Saad Mohseni

Director, Moby Media Group, Afghanistan

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