Aspen Ideas Festival

Steve Inskeep is co-host of “Morning Edition,” the most widely heard radio news program in the United States. Inskeep’s career as a correspondent has taken him to the changing neighborhoods of American cities, the first presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran, and across North Africa. He is the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, which explores the past and present of one of the world’s most? swiftly growing...
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Mary A. Legere is a lieutenant general and the senior Army intelligence officer in the Pentagon. Legere has served for 30 years in positions of increasing responsibility and leadership. She has commanded at all levels, from company command in Korea to the Commanding General of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command based in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, responsible for complex world-wide operations. She has participated in numerous significant missions including Operation Joint Forge in...
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Mike McConnell is vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton, where his primary roles include serving on the firm’s leadership team and leading Booz Allen’s rapidly expanding cyber business. After retiring from the Navy in 1996 as a vice admiral, McConnell joined Booz Allen and led the development of the firm’s information assurance business and the firm’s intelligence business focused on policy, transformation, homeland security, and intelligence analytics. Upon being asked by...
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Peter W. Singer is director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. One of the world’s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare, he was named by President Obama to the US military’s Transformation Advisory Group. He is the author of three award-winning nonfiction books: Corporate Warriors, Children at War, and Wired for War. Singer has been named by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait...
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James Steinberg is dean of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law. Prior to becoming dean in 2011, he served as deputy secretary of state, serving as the principal deputy to Secretary Clinton. From 2005 to 2008, Steinberg was dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. From 2001 to 2005, he was vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Steinberg served as deputy...
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