About the Speaker Richard A. Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform (2006) and Preventing
Speaker Bios Suzanne Maloney, an expert on Iran, the Persian Gulf States, energy, and economic reform, is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Maloney is a former member of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff where she worked on Iran, the Persian Gulf, and
Speaker Bios Rand Beers served as the National Security adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign. Previously he spent 35 years as a senior civil servant. After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service in 1983. From 1988-98, Mr. Beers served