2026 Speakers

 Josephine Wolff is a professor of cybersecurity policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her research interests include liability for cybersecurity incidents, cyber-insurance, government responses to cyberattacks, and the economics of information security. She is the author of two books: You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches (MIT Press, 2018) and Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks (MIT Press, 2022). Her writing on cybersecurity has also appeared in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired.

Jacqueline Bhabha is a Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is Director of Research at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.  She received a first-class honors degree and a M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London. From 1997 to 2001 she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. 

Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.  She has published extensively on issues of transnational child migration, refugee protection, and children’s rights and citizenship. She is the editor of Children Without A State (2011), author of Moving Children: Young Migrants and the Challenge of Rights (Princeton University Press, 2014), and the editor of Coming of Age: Reframing the Approach to Adolescent Rights (UPenn Press, 2014).

She serves on the board of the Scholars at Risk Network, the World Peace Foundation and the Journal of Refugee Studies.

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.” He was Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe, and then spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, with extended postings in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a visiting fellow at the Watson School for International and Public Affairs Studies at Brown University. His most recent book is The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War.

Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn, a research lab focused on civic education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a professor of political philosophy, ethics, and public policy as well as a seasoned nonprofit leader, democracy advocate, tech ethicist, distinguished author, and mom.

She is a contributing columnist at The Atlantic and was the 2020 winner of the Library of Congress' Kluge Prize, which recognizes scholarly achievement in the disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prize. She received the Prize "for her internationally recognized scholarship in political theory and her commitment to improving democratic practice and civics education." Her many books also include the widely acclaimed Our Declaration: a reading of the Declaration of Independence in defense of equality; Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.; Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus; and Justice by Means of Democracy.

Kalpen Trivedi is Senior Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Commonwealth’s flagship land-grant campus, where he leads campus-wide strategy and initiatives for global engagement.  He also serves as a Senior Advisor on Global Strategies in the University of Massachusetts System in the Presidents. 

Trivedi has more than two decades of experience in the fields of global partnerships, program design and evaluation, global operations, and risk management.  His expertise is sought by academia, governments, and professional organizations and Trivedi is a regular contributor on current topics in fora such as APLU (Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities), NAFSA (Association of International Educators), and AIEA (Association of International Education Administrators).

Recognized as one of the “50 Voices of North America” by PIE in 2023, Trivedi’s other recent distinctions include the Fulbright Fellowship (France, 2024), IIE’s Senior International Officer of the Year (2021), and the AIEA Presidential Fellowship (2019).  He is a member of AIEA’s Board of Directors and serves on the Executive Committee of the Commission on International Initiatives of APLU.  He has also been Past-Chair (2023) for NAFSA’s International Education Leadership Knowledge Community, as well as having served as the Co-Chair of the Academic Sector for the Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC).

Trained as a medievalist specializing in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century religious culture in Britain, Trivedi was educated in India and the U.K., with degrees from Gujarat University, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Manchester.  He has served previously as the Director of Education Abroad at UMass Amherst and prior to that, as Director of the University of Georgia’s Center and programs in Oxford, U.K., and faculty member in the English Department.

Susan Solomon is the Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She is well known for pioneering research on the Antarctic ozone hole, as well as on climate change in the southern hemisphere. 

She received the 1999 US National Medal of Science (highest scientific award in the US), the Crafoord Prize of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Blue Planet Prize, and the Volvo prize. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society in the UK. Time magazine named Solomon as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008.  And her favorite honor is a glacier in the Antarctic that has been named after her.

Yvonne Chiu is a Professor of Strategy & Policy at the Naval War College-Monterey Program and a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Previously, she has been a National Fellow at Hoover Institution, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), an assistant professor at University of Hong Kong, and a postdoctoral fellow at Political Theory Project (Brown University).

She writes on military ethics, global justice, defense strategy, Indo-Pacific policy, and authoritarianism, and her work has appeared in a variety of academic journals and media outlets, including Journal of Politics, Journal of Political Philosophy, The Telegraph, The Diplomat, The National Interest, Strategy Bridge, Time, Forbes, and CNN.

She is currently working on a manuscript on the post-WWII East Asian model of authoritarianism and its subsequent evolutions.

Her book, Conspiring with the Enemy:  The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare (Columbia University Press) won the International Studies Association–International Ethics Section Book Award 2021 and the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award 2020, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2021 commendation.

For her ongoing work on operational variables and integrated deterrence in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command region, she was awarded a Navy Civilian Service Commendation Medal 2024 and won the Naval War College Faculty Research Excellence Award 2025.

She serves on the Board of the International Society for Military Ethics.

Stephen Walt is an American political scientist serving as the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is]a member of the realist school of international relations, has made important contributions to the theory of neorealism, and has authored the balance of threat theory. Books that he has authored or coauthored include Origins of Alliances, Revolution and War, and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.