Bill Clinton
Jay Leno
Loretta Lynch
Theresa May
Justice Stephen Breyer
Tom Friedman
Madeleine Albright
David McCullough
Jane Fonda
Rick Steves
Jeb Bush
Susan Rice
Rita Moreno
Dan Rather
Bill Nye
Lisa Ling
Ken Burns
Diana Nyad
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2023-2024
- Jane Fonda
- Van Jones
- Adam Kinzinger
- Maria Yovanovitch
- Laurie Santos
- Michael Beschloss
- Céline Cousteau
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
- Bryan Stevenson
- Jon Meacham
- Ian Bremmer
- Jay Leno
2017-2018
- David Cameron
- Jon Meacham
- Cokie Roberts
- 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
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Diana Nyad
- John Irving
- Dennis Ross
2014-2015
- Madeleine Albright
- Julia Gillard
- Ken Burns
- Olympia Snowe
- David Gergen
- Ishmael Beah
- Dan Rather
2013-2014
- Bill Bryson
- George Papandreou
- Robert Gates
- Steve Wozniak
- Billy Collins
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
2012-2013
- President Bill Clinton
- Jeannette Walls
- Lisa Ling
- P.W. Singer
- Erskine Bowles
- Vicente Fox
- Nando Parrado
2011-2012
- David McCullough
- Michelle Rhee
- Valerie Plame Wilson and Joe Wilson
- Michael Pollan
- Azar Nafisi
- Frank Abagnale
- Tom Brokaw