Interact with Today's Newsmakers

One of the highlights of The Washington Center’s Academic Seminars is the access you’ll have to some of the day’s most prestigious newsmakers. In addition you’ll have the rare opportunity to question them directly.

Past seminar speakers have included

• Juan Zarate, Fmr. Deputy, National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism [ Watch His Speech ] [1]
• Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff [ Watch His Speech ] [2]
• Mickey Edwards, Fmr. Congressman from Oklahoma [ Watch His Speech ] [3]
• Ed Gillespie, Fmr. RNC Chairman [ Watch His Speech ] [4]
• Juan Williams, NPR News Analyst [ Watch His Speech ] [5]
• Brian Lamb, C-SPAN Founder [ Watch This Video ] [6]
• Ann Compton, ABC News
• Charlie Cook, Cook Political Report
• Andrea Mitchell, ABC News
• Sam Donaldson, ABC News
• Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
• Chuck Hagel (R-NE), US Senate
• Ted Koppel, ABC News
• Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary
• Antonin Scalia, US Supreme Court
• Brian Lamb, C-SPAN
• Bob Schieffer, CBS News
• Bob Woodward, The Washington Post
• Ambassador Nabil Fahmy, Arab Republic of Egypt
• Ambassador Husain Haqqani, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• Mike McCurry, Fmr. White House Press Secretary