Speakers
This year’s conference speakers are among the top authorities on international trade: researchers, strategists, practitioners, and policy influencers. Their insights into current issues will help attendees better understand the challenges and opportunities ahead, and their active engagement with attendees during breakout sessions and Q&A periods will allow potential solutions to emerge on complex issues.
- David Sanger
- Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times David E. Sanger writes compelling front-page analyses from the White House and around the globe that explain the most complex events of our time. For over two decades as a Times correspondent, including six years as Chief White House Correspondent, Sanger has become known as one of the nation’s most lucid analysts of foreign policy, national security and the politics of globalization.
- Stephen Blank
- Stephen Blank is a Senior Fellow at CIGI and is Co-Chair of the North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council. He recently retired as a professor of international business and management at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business. Previously, he served as director of the Lubin Center for International Business Development and founded the Pan American Partnership for Business Education, an alliance of four North American business schools. Dr. Blank is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the North American Forum on Integration. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Robert Bonner (invited)
- Robert Bonner is a former American prosecutor, former federal judge, former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration and former Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institue of Technology and former Chair of the California Commission on Judicial Performance.
- Christopher "Kit" Bond (via video)
- Christopher S. ‘Kit’ Bond, former Governor of the state of Missouri, was elected to the United States Senate in 1986 and was re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004. While serving in the Senate, he has built a reputation as a statesman who advocates for a strong U.S. military, improved care for veterans and men and women in uniform, an expert in Southeast Asia, and a reformer of the U.S. intelligence community. He is recognized as a national leader in the promotion of plant biotechnology. He serves as the Vice Chairman on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, is a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and is ranking member of the subcommittee that funds the nation's housing and transportation needs.