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Please see below for the Sedona Forum 2019 participant list.

MIKE ABRAMOWITZ
President
Freedom House

KRISTEN ABRAMS
Senior Director, Combatting Human Trafficking
McCain Institute for International Leadership

RICHARD ADKERSON
President & CEO
Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

ABDULLAH AL-HUSSEIN
Board Member
The White Helmets

RAED AL-SALEH
Head
The White Helmets

ABDALAZIZ ALHAMZA
Next Generation Leader, Syria
McCain Institute for International Leadership

ERNIE ALLEN
Council Member
The McCain Institute’s Human Trafficking Advisory Council

LETTY ASHWORTH
Director Community Engagement/King Center
Delta Air Lines

DAVID AXELROD
Director
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics

SUSAN AXELROD
Founder
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy

KELLY AYOTTE
Former U.S. Senator
New Hampshire

JEAN BADERSCHNEIDER
CEO and Founding Board Member Global Fund to End Modern Slavery

SUSAN BAER

APOORVA BAKSHI
EP, Delhi Crime
Producer Liaison to Ms. Chhaya Sharma

CHERYL BASSETT
Director of Human Trafficking Training Initiatives
McCain Institute for International Leadership

DAVID BERRY
Knight-Swift Transportation

ELIZABETH BERRY
Press Secretary
Office of Arizona Governor Doug Ducey

LESLIE BERRY

STEVE BETTS
President
Betts Real Estate Advisors

YVONNE BETTS
Trustee
The Phoenix Zoo

MICHAEL J. BIDWILL
President
Arizona Cardinals

CARL BILDT
Co-Chair
European Council on Foreign Relations

CHARLIE BLACK
Chairman
Prime Policy Group

SELAMAWIT GIRMAY BIRHANE
Next Generation Leader, Ethiopia
McCain Institute for International Leadership

JUDY BLACK
Principal
Black & Associates

DENIS A . BOVIN
Senior Advisor
Evercore

DIANA BOWMAN
Associate Dean of International Engagement
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law/ ASU

DOREEN BOYD
Associate Director, The Rights Lab
University of Nottingham, UK

DON BRANDT
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Arizona Public Service Company

GINGER BRANDT
Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation

TED BROMUND
Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations in The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom
The Heritage Foundation

GARRETT BUHLIG
Senior Manager IT Support Services First Solar

GRETCHEN BUHLIG
Chief Executive Officer
ASU Foundation

STONEY BURKE
Public Policy
Amazon Web Services

CHRISTY BURTON
Member and Director
Burton Family Foundation

DARYL R. BURTON
Founder
Burton Family Foundation

CHRIS CAMACHO
President & CEO
Greater Phoenix Economic Council

KRISTIE CANEGALLO
Vice President, Trust & Safety
Google

PRISCILLA COHEN
Chief Creative Officer
Wondros

CHRIS COONS
Senator, Delaware
U.S. Senate

JULIE CORDUA
CEO
Thorn

ROGER CRESSEY
Partner
Liberty Group Ventures, LLC

JAMES CROSS
VP-Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst
Franklin Templeton Investments

KELLEE CROSS

MICHAEL CROW
President
Arizona State University

RYAN CROW
Executive Vice President
Overseas Strategic Consulting

JEFF DAVIDOFF
Chief Marketing Officer
Wondros

KAREN DAVIS
Veterinarian
Fort Hunt Animal Hospital

RICK DAVIS
Partner and Chief Operating Officer
Pegasus Capital Advisors

EVELYN DE ROTHSCHILD
Co-Chairman
E L Rothschild LLC

LYNN FORESTER DE ROTHSCHILD
CEO
Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism

JOHN DICKERSON
CBS News Correspondent
Contributing Editor to the Atlantic

SHANE DOAN
Senior Advisor to Hockey Operations
National Hockey League

PIERRE DONAHUE
EVP and General Counsel
Crestline Hotels and Resorts

ANGELA DUCEY
First Lady
Arizona Office of the Governor

DOUGLAS A. DUCEY
Governor
State of Arizona

MILO ĐUKANOVIĆ
President
Montenegro

STEVE DUPREY
President
The Duprey Companies

SUSAN DUPREY
Of Counsel
Bernstein Shur

SOUHEIR DUSHOFF
Professor
Arizona Community Colleges

JESSE DYLAN
Founder & CEO
Wondros

RENEE EASTMAN
Senior Director
Salt River Project

YH EOM
President & CEO
Samsung Electronics America

SOKAYNA EL ALLAM
Next Generation Leader, Morocco
McCain Institute for International Leadership

RIKI ELLISON
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

CARLA EUDY
President
The Eudy Company

NINO EVGENIDZE
Executive Director
Economic Policy Research Center

PAUL FAGAN
Director of Human Rights & Democracy Program
McCain Institute for International Leadership

TOM FAUST
Owner
The TFaust Co LLC

CHERYL FLAKE

JEFF FLAKE
Former U.S. Senator
Arizona

DREW FORSTER
Senior Manager
Charles Schwab

BENJAMIN FREAKLEY
Special Advisor to the President, ASU for Leadership Initiatives
McCain Institute for International Leadership

CHARLEY FREERICKS
Board Member
Arizona Community Foundation

JACQUELLINE FULLER
President
Google.org

DEBORAH GAFFNEY

GLENN GAFFNEY
EVP
IQT

ULF GARTZKE
Managing Partner
Spitzberg Partners LLC

BETSY GEHRING
Deputy Executive Director
McCain Institute for International Leadership

JOSHUA GELTZER
Executive Director
Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection

HOLLY AUSTIN GIBBS
HT Response Program Director
Dignity Health

KATHY GILSINAN
National Security Correspondent
The Atlantic Magazine

NEIL GIULIANO
President & CEO
Greater Phoenix Leadership

SIMONA GRACE

LINDSEY GRAHAM
Senator, South Carolina
U.S. Senate

CHRIS GRANT
Arizona State University

MALCOLM GRANT
Special Advisor to ASU President Michael Crow
Arizona State University

NICK GRONO
CEO
The Freedom Fund

JEFF GULDNER
President
Arizona Public Service

SHIRLEY GUNTHER
VP for External Affairs
Dignity Health Arizona

ALEXANDRA HALL HALL
Brexit Counselor
British Embassy

TERRY HALVORSEN
CIO/EVP B2G
Samsung Electronics

JOSEPH HARPER
Partner
Explorador Capital Management, LLC

OLIVER HARPER
Clinical Assistant Professor
U of A/College of Medicine

SHARON HARPER
President/CEO
Plaza Companies

HEIDI HEITKAMP
Former U.S. Senator
North Dakota

JERRY HIRSCH
Chairman
The Lodestar Foundation

BARBARA HOFFMAN
Vice President, Global Strategic Operations Government, IT & Mobile Communication B2G(B)
Samsung

DALE L. HOPELY, JR.
Reverend
Retired

KIMBERLY A. HOPELY
Senior Vice President
Arizona State University Foundation

WILL HURD
Congressman, Texas 23rd District
U.S. House of Representatives

KEVIN HYLAND
Special Advisor
Santa Marta Group & Council of Europe GRETA

JAMES JONES
President
Jones Group International

NEBOJŠA KALUĐEROVIĆ
Ambassador
Montenegro

VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA
Chairman
Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom

PATRICK KENNEY
Dean of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Arizona State University

KILIAN KERWIN
Creative Executive
Ivanhoe Pictures

SANJEEV KHAGRAM
Dean & Director General
Thunderbird School of Global Management/ASU

ASAD M. KHAN
Ambassador to the United States of America
Republic of Pakistan

WK KIM
EVP of Public Affairs, Samsung
Former Councilor of Korean Embassy in United States

LUKE KNITTIG
Senior Director of Communications
McCain Institute for International Leadership

RUSS KNOCKE
Vice President
Republic Services

NOOR KURDI
Attorney
Noor Kurdi Law

CARYLL KYL

JON KYL
Senior Of Counsel
Covington & Burling LLP

ELISE LABOTT
Foreign Affairs Journalist

MEGHAN LATCOVICH
Strategic Advisor
McCain Institute for International Leadership

SIMON LATCOVICH
Partner
Williams & Connolly LLP

BLAIR LIGELIS

MARIA LOGAN
Director of International Programmes
Open Russia

PETER MACKAY
Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

GREG MAFFEI
President & CEO
Liberty Media

TOM MALINOWSKI
Congressman, New Jersey 7th District
U.S. House of Representatives

ELISA MASSIMINO
Senior Fellow
Harvard Kennedy School

STEVE MAY
Co-Founder
Proven Valor

CINDY MCCAIN
Chair, Board of Trustees
McCain Institute for International Leadership

HOLLY MCCAIN

TOMMY MCKONE
Director of Government Affairs
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

MARTHA MCSALLY
Senator, Arizona
U.S. Senate

RICHIE MEHTA
Film Director
Independent

CLAIRE SECHLER MERKEL
Senior Director, Arizona Programs
McCain Institute for International Leadership

DAVID A. MERKEL
Managing Director
Summit International Advisors, LLC

IA MEURMISHVILI
Senior Editor
Voice of America, Georgian Service

KATHY MITCHELL
Senior Director, Government Affairs
PetSmart

HEATHER MURREN
Private Investor
Murren Family Foundation

JIM MURREN
Chairman & CEO
MGM Resorts International

TED MURREN
Student
Johns Hopkins University

DIKEMBE MUTOMBO
Chairman and President
Dikembe Mutombo Foundation

FRON NAHZI
Senior Director for Global Development
McCain Institute for International Leadership

ADAM NATHANSON
President/CEO
Mapleton Investments, LLC

DIANA VILLIERS NEGROPONTE
Public Policy Fellow
Wilson Center

JOHN NEGROPONTE
Vice Chairman
McLarty Associates

PAM NEWCOMB

RANDY NEWCOMB
Senior Advisor
The Omidyar Group

KIRSTJEN NIELSEN
Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security

JIM O’BRIEN
Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President
Arizona State University

NANCY OKAIL
Executive Director
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

GILBERT M. ORRANTIA
Director
Arizona Department of Homeland Security

MARIA ORRANTIA

MI-AI PARRISH
Media Innovation and Leadership Chair
Arizona State University

LIISA PAST
Next Generation Leader, Estonia
McCain Institute for International Leadership

JOHN PENOTTI
CEO
SK Global

TOM PERRIELLO
Executive Director, U.S. Programs
Open Society Foundations

DAVID PETRAEUS
Chairman
KKR Global Institute

ALIZ POCSUVALSZKI
Next Generation Leader, Hungary
McCain Institute for International Leadership

MICHAEL POLT
Senior Director, Leadership Programs
McCain Institute for International Leadership

TREVOR POTTER
Member
Caplin & Drysdale

DAVID PRESSMAN
Partner
Boies Schiller Flexner

KENAN RAHMANI
Advocacy Manager
The Syria Campaign

JOHN RAIDT
Vice President
Jones Group International

NICHOLAS RASMUSSEN
Senior Director of Counterterrorism and National Security
McCain Institute for International Leadership

SYDNEY REED

KATHRYN RICKARD
Psychologist

STEPHEN RICKARD
Director of Foreign Policy Constituency Building
Open Society Foundations – Washington

DAVID RIGG
Managing Director & Founder
Project Associates

MILAN ROĆEN
Political Advisor to the President
Montenegro

ALI ROGIN
Reporter
PBS News Hour

JOSH ROGIN
Columnist
Washington Post

LIUBOV ROMANOVA
Next Generation Leader, Russia
McCain Institute for International Leadership

JOHN ROOD
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
U.S. Department of Defense

FABIANA ROSALES DE GUAIDÓ
First Lady of Venezuela

FRED ROSEN
President-CEO
Red Carpet Entertainment LLC

DAVID ROUSSEAU
President
Salt River Project

JUAN SALCEDO
Senior Adviser to President Guaidó and First Lady of Venezuela

MARK SALTER
Writer

KORI SCHAKE
Deputy-Director General
International Institute for Strategic Studies

DANIEL SCARPINATO
Chief of Staff
Office of Arizona Governor Doug Ducey

RANDY SCHEUNEMANN
Strategic Counselor
Halifax International Security Forum

NADINE SCHIFF
Writer

MAGNUS SCHÖLDTZ
Senior Advisor
Wallenberg Foundations AB

STEVE SELEZNOW
President / CEO
Arizona Community Foundation

VANCE SERCHUK
Director
KKR

MARY SHANGRAW

RICK SHANGRAW
CEO
ASU Enterprise Partners

CHHAYA SHARMA
Deputy Inspector General
National Human Rights Commission of India

JOSETTE SHEERAN
President and CEO
Asia Society

LAURA SILBER
Chief Communications Officer
Open Society Foundations

FLORENCE SLOAN
Producer
Golden Karavan

HARRY EVANS SLOAN
CEO
Global Eagle

KATERYNA SMAGLIY
Next Generation Leader, Ukraine
McCain Institute for International Leadership

MODOU SOWE
Next Generation Leader, The Gambia
McCain Institute for International Leadership

MATT SPENCE
Professor of the Practice and Advisor to University President Michael Crow
Arizona State University

RAHUL SRIVASTAVA
Advisor, Investor, Consultant

BRETTE STEELE
Director of Prevention and National Security
McCain Institute for International Leadership

BEN STEIN
Founder/Managing Partner
The Spruce House Partnership

PHIL STEPHENSON
Chairman
Freedom Capital Partners LLC

MIKE STONE
Global Head of Technology Transformation for Infrastructure, Government & Healthcare
KPMG

DAN SULLIVAN
Senator, Alaska
U.S. Senate

JULIE FATE SULLIVAN
Covenant House Alaska

J.K. SYMANCYK
President and CEO
PetSmart

JENNIFER SYMANCYK
PetSmart

KIERSTEN TODT
President and Managing Partner
Liberty Group Ventures, LLC

FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND
EVP, Worldwide Government, Legal and Business Affairs
MacAndrews & Forbes, Inc

DANIEL TWINING
President
International Republican Institute

KURT VOLKER
Executive Director
McCain Institute for International Leadership

ANNA VOLOSHIN
Senior Director of Development
McCain Institute for International Leadership

BRAD VYNALEK
Partner
Quarles & Brady LLP

GEORGE WEISZ
Chair of the Board
Scottsdale Community Bank

LEESA WEISZ   

GREG WENDT
Partner
Capital Group

CLAUDIA SANS WERNER
Senior Designer
JD Ireland

JEFF WERNER
Vice President, Corporate and Government Affairs
Panasonic

CHRISTIANE WEST
Contend Projects

BOB WHEELER
CEO
Strategic Consulting Unlimited

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE
Senator, Rhode Island
U.S. Senate

CLINT WILLIAMSON
Senior Director for International Rule of Law and Security
McCain Institute for International Leadership

TYESHA WOOD
Next Generation Leader, United States McCain Institute for International Leadership

GRANT WOODS
Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods Law

MICHELE ZAHNER
Retired
United States Army

RICHARD ZAHNER
Lieutenant General (Retired)
United States Army

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