The titles and biographies of the speakers listed in this section are current as of the date of the event.
Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete (1941–2014)
Theologian and author
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014
Lewis Alexander
Global Chief Economist, Citigroup
2009
John Allen
CNN Vatican Analyst, National Catholic Reporter Correspondent
2009
Frank Anderson
Former Chief, Near East Division, Directorate of Operations, CIA
2012
Dominic A. Aquila
Professor of history, University of St. Thomas, Houston
2018
Bassam Aramin
International spokesperson, The Parents Circle Families Forum
2020
Chris Arnade
Writer and photographer
2020
Mikel Azurmendi
Sociologist
2021
Andrew Bacevich
Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History, Boston University
2022
Jon Balsbaugh
President of the Trinity Schools Network
2019 | 2020
Christopher Barrett
Deputy dean, College of Business, Cornell University
2018
Fr. Solanus M. Benfatti
Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, professor of spirituality and Franciscan traditions, St. Joseph’s Seminary, Archdiocese of New York
2018
Fr. Pigi Bernareggi (1939–2021)
Missionary priest in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2018
Pier Alberto Bertazzi
Former director of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, State University of Milan
2018
Paul Bhatti
Pakistan's Minister for National Harmony
2013
James Biber
Architect
2016
Jeanne Bishop
Cook County Public Defender
2020
Chris Blattman
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
2016
Luke Bretherton
Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School
2022
Michael J. Brescia
Executive medical director, Calvary Hospital
2018
David Brooks
The New York Times Editorialist
2017 | 2019
Fr. Zacharie Bukuru
Benedictine monk in Buta, Burundi
2020
Darren Burris
Director of Instruction, Boston Collegiate Chartered Schools
2015
Richard Cabral
Actor and former gang member in East Los Angeles
2017
Fr. Peter Cameron, OP
Director of formation for Hard As Nails Ministries
2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2019
Angelo Carfì
Chiara Corbella’s medical doctor
2019
Hope Carlson
Chief Development Officer at the Museum of Man in San Diego
2015
Paolo Carozza
Professor of Law and Director of Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame
2016 | 2017 | 2021
Julián Carrón
President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021
Marta Cartabia
Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Italy
2015
Paul D. Chibe
President and CEO of Ferrero North America
2019
Francis Collins
Senior Investigator, former Director of the National Institutes of Health
2022
James Como
A Founder of the New York C. S. Lewis Society
2017
Kerry Cronin
Associate Director of the Lonergan Institute at Boston College
2019
Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso
Delegated Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
2017
Robi Damelin
Director of international relations, The Parents Circle Families Forum
2020
Patrick J. Deneen
Professor of political science and constitutional studies, University of Notre Dame
2020
Sandeep Das
Musician, founder of HUM, and member of the Silk Road Ensemble Project
2018
His Grace Bishop Anba David
Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of New York and New England
2020
Daryl Davis
Musician and public speaker
2020
Michael C. Desch
Founding Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center
2022
Chad Diehl
Historian and instructional designer, University of Virginia
2022
Timothy Cardinal Dolan
Archbishop of New York
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2021
Ross Douthat
New York Times columnist
2012
H.E. Cardinal Edward M. Egan (1932–2015)
Archbishop Emeritus of New York
2013
Paul Elie
Author & Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2010
Christine Emba
Columnist, The Washington Post
2020
Emily Esfahani Smith
Author
2019
Amitai Etzioni
Professor, The George Washington University and author of Happiness is the Wrong Metric (Springer, 2018)
2018
Jean-Paul Fitoussi (1942–2022)
Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
2022
David Flatto
Associate Professor of Law, Religion, and History at Penn State Law
2014
JD Flynn
Editor-in-chief, Catholic News Agency
2020
Dawn Ford
Surviving educator in the Sandy Hook massacre
2019
Seth Freeman
Assistant Professor, NYU Stern
2009
Donna Freitas
Author and lecturer
2015
Armando Fumagalli
Director of the Masters Program in Screenwriting and Production for TV, Milan Catholic University
2015
Jeannie Gaffigan
Comedy writer
2021
Jonathan Galassi
President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011
John Garvey
President of Catholic University of America
2011
Clara Gaymard
VP of Government Strategy and Sales at GE International, and President and CEO of GE France
2011
Robert George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton
2019
Dana Gioia
Poet
2020
Mary Ann Glendon
Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University, President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
2012
Francis Greene
Art historian
2013 | 2019
Brad Gregory
Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
2010
Fr. Sidney Griffith
Professor of Semitic Languages and Literature at the Catholic University of America
2012
Fabrice Hadjadj
Writer and philosopher
2014
Michael Hanby
Professor of Biotechnology and Culture, Pontifical John Paul II Institute
2013
William Haslam
Former Governor of Tennessee
2022
Stanley Hauerwas
Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law, Duke Divinity School
2010 | 2019
Sarah Hemminger
Founder and CEO of Thread
2020
Carla Hendra
Founding Chairman, Global Strategy & Innovation at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
2011
Tony Hendra (1941–2021)
Writer and author
2013 | 2014
Dominic Higgins
Movie director
2022
Edward Hirsch
Poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2018
Rex Hohlbein
Founder of Facing Homelessness Seattle and the BLOCK Project
2020
Jennifer Hubbard
Mother of Catherine Violet murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre
2019
Annette Insdorf
Director of Undergraduate Film Studies, Columbia University
2015
Austen Ivereigh
Writer and journalist
2019
Tom Jones
Former astronaut
2016
Helen Joyce
Executive editor for events business of The Economist
2022
Dan Jusino
Founder and CEO of EMERGE, a re-entry, transitional work program for ex-inmates
2017
Joseph Kaboski
Professor of Economics, The University of Notre Dame
2017
Matthew Kaminski
Member of The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board
2012
Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Kashmiri
Chairman of the Imam Mahdi Association of Marjaeya
2018
Aaron Kheriaty
Professor of psychiatry, Irvine School of Medicine, University of California
2021
Phil Klay
Author
2022
Harold Korell
Chairman of the Board of Southwestern Energy
2013
Maria Teresa Landi
Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
2015, 2017
Karen Le Billon
Author
2017
Tom Leopold
Writer and Comedian
2017
Mark Lilla
Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
2018
William A. Linton
Founder and CEO of Promega, Co-Founder/Executive Director Usona Institute
2019
Daniel Lipinski
Former U.S. Congressman
2022
Jonathan I. Lunine
Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science
2019
Matt Malone, S.J.
President & Editor in Chief of America Media
2017
Paul Mariani
Poet
2019
"Blue Lou" Marini
Saxophonist, arranger, and composer
2011 | 2014
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
Archbishop of Dublin
2012
Luca Matone
Astrophysicist, Member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that detected gravitational waves
2017
Polly Matzinger
Immunologist, NIH
2017
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian at Yale University
2020
Sergeant Conor McDonald
New York City Police Department, Patrol Service Bureau, son of the late New York City Police Department Detective Steven McDonald
2018
William McGurn
Columnist at the Wall Street Journal
2011
Jeremy McLellan
Comedian
2021
Branko Milanovic
Senior fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
2022
Kenneth Miller
Professor of Biology at Brown University
2011 | 2015
Molly Morkoski
Pianist
2020 | 2021
Michael Naughton
Director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought, University of Saint Thomas
2014
Jennifer Nedelsky
Professor of Law, University of Toronto
2015
Edward Nelson (1932–2014)
Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
2009
Pedro Noguera
Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University
2014
Archbishop Amel Nona
Exiled Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Iraq
2016
Martin Nowak
Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Harvard University
2015
Seán Cardinal Patrick O’Malley
Archbishop of Boston
2011 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020
Mikhail Nikolayevich Odnoralov
Artist
2013
Karin Öberg
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
2019
Martin Palous
President of the Václav Havel Library Foundation
2014
Diana Pardue
Chief, Museum Services Division, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
2019
Enrico Petrillo
Chiara Corbella’s husband
2019
Archbishop Christophe Pierre
Apostolic Nuncio to the United States
2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022
Christian Picciolini
Author
2020
Giulio Piscitelli
Photographer
2016
Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Custodian of the Holy Land
2016 | 2021
José Porro
System Analysis and Design Director
2017
Richard Potts
Director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian
2015
Fr. Javier Prades
President of the University of San Damaso, Madrid
2019
Anika Prather
Professor at Howard University
2021
Patrick Radden Keefe
Writer and investigative journalist
2022
Rusty Reno
Managing Editor, First Things
2017
Raghuram Rajan
The Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2021
Eugene Rivers
Pentecostal minister
2021
Jacqueline Rivers
Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies
2021
Massimo Robberto
AURA Observatory Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute
2013 | 2019
Samuele Rosa
Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund
2022
Thomas Rosenstiel
Former executive director of the American Press Institute
2022
Jeffrey Sachs
Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
2016
Ratna Sahay
Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund
2021
Dominick Salvatore
Director PhD Program in Economics, Fordham University
2009
Fr. Samir Khalil Samir, SJ
Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Saint Joseph, Beirut
2014
Lisa Schiltz
Professor of Law, Thomas J. Abood Research Scholar, University of St. Thomas
2013
David Schindler (1943-2022)
Dean Emeritus of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute at Catholic University of America
2014
Robert Senkewicz
Professor of History at Santa Clara University
2014
John Sexton
President of NYU
2010
Kimberly Shankman
Dean of Benedictine College
2015 | 2019
Timothy Shriver
Chairman of Special Olympics
2015
Sara Sievers
Associate dean of policy and practice, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
2018
Christian Smith
Wm. R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
2015
Anne Snyder
Director of The Character Initiative at The Philanthropy Roundtable
2019
Etsuro Sotoo
Sculptor at Sagrada Familia
2018
Bryan Stevenson
Founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative
2022
Matt Stoller
Director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project and a visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Columbia University
2021
Julia Stoyanovich
Assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU
2020
Lawrence E. Sullivan
Professor emeritus of theology and comparative world religions, University of Notre Dame
2020
Daniel Sulmasy
Professor of Medicine & Ethics, University of Chicago
2010
Matthew Taibbi
Author, journalist, and podcaster
2021
Charles Taylor
Philosopher and professor emeritus, McGill University
2021
Richard F. Thomas
George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics, Harvard University
2019
Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi
Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
2018
Charles Townes
Nobel Prize winner in Physics
2011
Mary Townsend
Assistant professor of philosophy, St. John’s University
2021
Fr. Marcel Uwineza, SJ
Rwandan genocide survivor
2020
Jean Vanier
Founder of L'Arche communities
2015
Giorgio Vittadini
Professor of statistics at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
2016 | 2020
Paul Vitz
Professor emeritus of psychology at New York University
2018
Michael Waldstein
Professor of Theology, Ave Maria University
2011 | 2017
John Waters
Author
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
Joseph Weiler
University Professor at NYU School of Law
2011 | 2017 | 2018
Andreas Widmer
Director of the Entrepreneurship Programs, Catholic University of America
2016
Fr. George Williams, SJ
Chaplain for Saint Quentin State Prison death row
2020
Rowan Williams
Theologian
2022
Christian Wiman
Poet and Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School
2016
John Witte
Professor of Law, Emory University
2015
Carolyn Yauyan Woo
President and CEO of Catholic Relief Services
2017
Stefano Zamagni
Professor of economics, University of Bologna and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
2021
Krzysztof Zanussi
Movie Director
2012
