The Baltimore Speakers Series presents some of the world’s most celebrated and influential personalities of our time, a virtual Who’s Who of National and global figures - heads of state, political leaders, newsmakers, innovators and cultural icons, each sharing their unique experiences and perspectives as they challenge your mind, enlarge your world and make you laugh. These are our past speakers:
2022-2023
Loretta Lynch
John Brennan
Maria Ressa
Erik Larson
Tom Friedman
Scott Kelly
Anthony Ray Hinton
2021-2022
John Bolton
Platon
Walter Isaacson
Mara Liasson
Jamie Metzl
Theresa May
Bill Nye
2019–2020
John Kerry
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Bob Woodward
Douglas Brinkley
Peter Diamandis
Susan Rice
Jason Alexander
2018–2019
James Comey
Lisa Genova
Gloria Steinem
Jeb Bush
Ian Bremmer
Bryan Stevenson
Jay Leno
2017–2018
David Cameron
Jon Meacham
Jane Pauley
Robin Wright
Rick Steves
Mark Kelly and
Gabby Giffords
Paul Nicklen
2016–2017
Justice Stephen Breyer
Ehud Barak
Rita Moreno
John Cleese
Martin Dempsey
Ted Koppel
Michele Norris, Jason Riley and Morris Dees
2015–2016
Leon Panetta
Sanjay Gupta
Michio Kaku
Diana Nyad
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
John Irving
Dennis Ross
2014–2015
Alan Alda
Julia Gillard
Ken Burns
Olympia Snowe
David Gergen
David McCullough
Dan Rather
2013–2014
Bill Bryson
George Papandreou
Robert Gates
Steve Wozniak
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Dave Barry
2012–2013
President Bill Clinton
Jeannette Walls
Lisa Ling
P. W. Singer
Erskine Bowles
Vicente Fox
Nando Parrado
2011–2012
Ron Chernow
Michelle Rhee
Valerie Plame Wilson
and Joe Wilson
Michael Pollan
Azar Nafisi
Stanley McChrystal
Tom Brokaw
2010–2011
Thomas Friedman
Elizabeth Gilbert
Frank Abagnale
Peggy Noonan
F. W. de Klerk
Mark Shields
Karl Rove and Howard Dean
2009–2010
Pervez Musharraf
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Laura Bush
Robert Reich
Mia Farrow
David Brooks
Greg Mortenson
2008–2009
Steve Forbes
Paul Rusesabagina
Garrison Keillor
Bob Woodward
Anna Quindlen
Jane Goodall
David McCullough
2007–2008
Robert Ballard
Ben Carson
Cokie Roberts
Madeleine Albright
Salman Rushdie
Frank McCourt
The Capitol Steps
2006–2007
Amy Tan
James Lovell
Colin Powell
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Michael Medved
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Beck Weathers
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