The Common Good Forum focused on national security, economic prosperity, the 2016 election campaign, and investment advice presented by our long list of knowledgeable speakers to speak on each of these topics.
Our distinguished participants included:
Joel Benenson, Democratic Pollster and Chief Strategist for Hillary For America
Ian Bremmer, Founder & President of Eurasia Group and author of Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World
David Burstein, CEO & Co-Founder of Run for America, commentator on Millennials, social innovation and politics, and author of Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation is Shaping our World
Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Former Chief Economist at State Department and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Stephanie Cutter, Founding Partner at Precision Strategies and Former Deputy Campaign Manager for Obama 2012
Seth Flaxman, Co-Founder of Democracy Works
Senator Lindsey Graham, (R-SC), 2016 Presidential candidate
William Galston, Former policy advisor to President Bill Clinton, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, and Wall Street Journal columnist
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Economist, President of the American Action Forum (AAF), and former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Abby Huntsman, Fox News reporter
General (Ret.) Ron Keys, USAF, Advisory Board Member of the Center for Climate and Security
Ted Koppel, Legendary journalist, former anchor of ABC’s Nightline, and author of Lights Out
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States
Larry Kudlow, CNBC Senior Contributor and economist
Andrew McAfee, Technology and business expert, Co-Director of the MIT Initiative on Digital Economy, and author of The Second Machine Age
Kayleigh McEnany, CNN Political Commentator and Trump supporter
General (Ret.) David Petraeus, Former CIA Director, Former U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) Commander, and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute
Governor Ed Rendell, Former Governor of Pennsylvania and Chair of the 2016 Democratic National Convention
Alan Schwartz, Executive Chairman of Guggenheim Partners
Stephanie Sharis, CEO DailyClout and creator of BillCam
Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York Founder
Michael Steele, Former RNC Chairman and MSNBC political analyst
Jeanne Sullivan, Co-Founder of StarVest Partners
Arun Sundararajan, Stern Professor and author of the upcoming book, The Sharing Economy
Kim Taipale, Executive Director of the Stilwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy
Jacob Weisberg, Chairman of The Slate Group, whose roster includes Slate magazine
