Afghanistan: Part One

Hassan Abbas, PhD (Panelist), Distinguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) 

Javid Ahmad (Panelist),
Scholar, Middle East Institute and Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Lieutenant General (Ret) Robert Ashley (Panel Moderator), former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Commissioner at Afghanistan War Commission, and Principal, Pallas Advisors

Ian Bickford, PhD (Panel Moderator), President, American University of Afghanistan

Shamila Chaudhary (Featured Speaker), Co-Chair, Afghanistan War Commission and former White House Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan on the National Security Council

Adib Farhadi, PhD (Conference Host)
Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Executive Education College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida

Colin Jackson, PhD (Featured Speaker)
Co-Chair, Afghanistan War Commission and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Aghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia

Ambassador Ali Jalali (Panelist), Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) and former Afghani Ambassador to Germany

Ambassador Said Tayeb Jawad (Panelist)
former Afghanistan Ambassador to the United States and United Kingdom

President Hamid Karzai (Video Remarks), former President of Afghanistan

Ambassador Zalmay Khalilizad (Ret) (Featured Remarks)
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Iraq and Afghanistan and Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation

General (Ret) Frank McKenzie (Featured Remarks)
Executive Director, Global and National Security Institute, USF
Former commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)

Ambassador Michael McKinley (Ret) (Plenary Remarks), Senior Counselor at the Cohen Group, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan

Mohsen Milani, PhD (Moderator)
Professor, Executive Director for the Center of Strategic & Diplomatic Studies, University of South Florida

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Chris Molino (Panelist), Commissioner, Afghanistan War Commission

Ambassador Omar Samad (Panelist), former Afghanistan Ambassador to Canada and France

Barnett Rubin, PhD (Panelist), Distinguished Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University

Habiba Sarabi (Panelist), former Afghanistan Minister of Women Affairs

Naheed Sarabi (Panelist), Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute and former Afghanistan Deputy Minister of Finance

Jonathan Schroden, PhD (Panel Moderator), Senior Project Director, Center for Naval Analysis

Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, PhD (Panelist), Oral History Project Manager - HART, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Marvin Weinbaum, PhD (Panelist), Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan Studies, Middle East Institute (MEI)

Andrew Wilder, PhD (Panel Moderator)
Vice President, United States Institute of Peace and Commissioner, Afghanistan War Commission

Scott Worden, JD (Panelist), Director, Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs, United States Institute of Peace