Aspen Ideas Festival

Nicholas Burns is director of the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Strategy Group. He is also professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics and faculty chair for programs on the Middle East, India, and South Asia at the Harvard Kennedy School. Burns is a senior counselor at The Cohen Group. Previously, he was undersecretary of state for political affairs, the State Department’s third-ranking official; US ambassador to NATO... Read More →

Hala Gorani is an anchor on “International Desk” and correspondent for CNN International. In addition to her anchoring duties, Gorani often goes into the field to report on major breaking news stories. She was part of a small team of journalists allowed into Syria last summer for the first time since the protests began. She reported extensively from Jordan and Egypt and has been instrumental in CNN’s coverage of the Arab Spring... Read More →

David Rothkopf is CEO and editor at large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, a division of the Washington Post Company. He is also president and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm. Rothkopf is the internationally acclaimed author of a number of books including Power, Inc.; Superclass; and Running the World. Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he directs... Read More →