Past Speakers

The Council has been host to many outstanding speakers since its founding in 1981. Our past roster of speakers:

Former Secretary of the Treasury, William L. Simon
Ambassador Gerald L. Smith
Former Ambassador Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., Henry Grunwald
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering
George Plimpton
Peace Corps Director Loret Ruppe
Former U.S. Diplomat and Teheran Hostage Moorhead Kennedy
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Senator Eugene McCarthy
German Ambassador Rudiger von Wechmar
Senator Claiborne Pell
Soviet political analyst Sergey Plekhanov
The Honorable Muriel Siebert
Author Arnaud de Borchgrave
Senator Alphonse D'Amato
Author Stephane Groueff
Former Ambassador to Haiti, Heyward Isham
Author Tom Wolfe
King Simeon of Bulgaria
Prince Sisowath Sirirath of Cambodia
Harriet Fullbright
Shmuel Ben-Shmuel
The Hon. Edward R. Finch, Jr.
John Hurford and The Hon.Heyward Isham