31st Parliamentary Intelligence-Security forum, Washington, DC, December 9-10, 2025

6:00 PM - WELCOME RECEPTION AT QATAR EMBASSY

• Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani - Ambassador of the State of Qatar in Washington

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM - REGISTRATION/COFFEE

9:00 AM – 9:20 AM – OPENING REMARKS

• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence- Security Forum
• Matt Pottinger - former National Security Advisor (video)

9:20 AM - 10:25 AM - ILLICIT FINANCE

• Juan Zarate - Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer, K2 Integrity
• John Walsh - President and Chief Executive Officer, SightSpan Inc.
• Lilita Infante - Chief Executive Officer, CAT Labs, Former U.S. Department of Justice Special Agent
• Dan Swift - Senior Research Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Economic and Financial Power

10:25 AM – 11:00 AM - LINKING THE INDO-PACIFIC TO THE EURO-ATLANTIC

• Carla Sands - Vice Chair, Center for Energy and Environment, America First Policy Institute; former US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark
• John Sitilides - Geopolitical Strategist, Trilogy Advisors LLC, and Senior Fellow (National Security Program), Foreign Policy Research Institute

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM – THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

• David Malpass - former President, The World Bank Group and former Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs

11:25 AM – 12:30 PM - BLOCKCHAIN / DIGITAL ASSETS

• Brian Quintenz - former Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
• Dante Disparte - former Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
• Gregory C. Johnson - Digital Asset Executive, Board Member, NYU Faculty
• Kristopher Klaich - Senior Director, Operations and Policy, Chamber of Digital Commerce

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM - CYBER SECURITY

• Tom Lind - Senior Advisor to the Director, White House Office of the National Cyber Director
• Diana Furchtgott-Roth - Director, Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment and The Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, The Heritage Foundation
• Paul J. Maurer - President, Montreat College; Co-author, The Code of Honor
• N. MacDonnell Ulsch - Founder, MacDonnell Ulsch Cyber Advisory LLC

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM - HUMAN TRAFFICKING

• Anne Basham - Founder and Chair of the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking
• Tanya Gould - OSCE International Survivor of Trafficking Advisory Council member and Anti-Human Trafficking Director for the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Mary Vigil - Senior National Security and Foreign Affairs Advisor, Office of Rep. Chris Smith

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM – CHINA’S WAR ON RELIGION

• Christopher Smith - Senior Member, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Co-Chairman, Congressional Executive Committee on China

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME

• David Consoli - former Senior Strategy Advisor at the U.S. Department of State
• Richard Marianos - Executive Director, Tobacco Law Enforcement Network

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – CHINA’S WAR ON THE WEST

• Peter Schweizer - President, Government Accountability Institute and 4x #1 New York Times bestselling author

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM – AMBASSADOR’S RECEPTION

• Andrei Muraru - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the United States

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM COFFEE/DANISH

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PRAYER BREAKFAST

9:00 AM – 10:10 AM - NATIONAL SECURITY

• Lesia Zaburanna - Chair, Subcommittee on Public Expenditures, Parliament of Ukraine – “Future of European Security: Building a Stronger Transatlantic Architecture for Global Stability”
• Oleg Dunda - Member of Parliament, Ukraine – “The Future battlefield with unmanned technologies”
• Mark A. Melson - former Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific/Commander, Task Force SEVEN THREE
• Ilan Berman - Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM VIEW FROM THE U.S. SENATE

• Thom Tillis - United States Senator – North Carolina

10:10 AM – 10:30 AM – RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

• Sam Brownback - former U.S. Senator, Kansas Governor and U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom
• Manus Churchill - Executive Director, International Religious Freedom Summit

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM - ENERGY SECURITY

• Krzysztof Bosak - Deputy Speaker of the Sejm, Poland
• Sohan Dasgupta - Former Assistant Secretary for Trade and Economic Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Kevin Dayaratna - Director, Center for Data Analysis and Chief Statistician, The Heritage Foundation
• Dave McMurtry - CEO, The McMurtry Group
• François Baird - Distinguished Fellow, Energy Policy Research Foundation

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM – TELECOM/INFRASTRUCTURE

• Pavel Popescu - Vice President/State Secretary @ ANCOM; former Chairman of the Defense and National Security Committee in the Romanian Parliament
• Nathan Simington - former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• John Strand - CEO of Strand Consult, Denmark

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM LUNCH BREAK

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM – THE MIDDLE EAST

• Gideon Sa’ar - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel
• Tzachi Mamo - Honorary Consul of Papau New Guinea in Israel
• Joe Glover - Board of Advisors, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum

1:45 PM – 2:30 PM - INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Gilbert Kaplan - Former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Co-Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board, Manufacturing Policy Initiative, Indiana University
• Angela Ellard - former Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization
• Michael Taylor - Partner, International Trade Team, King & Spalding

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM - PARLIAMENTARY PERSPECTIVES

• Jaak Madison - Member from Estonia, European Parliament – “A Global Security Agenda for Africa”
• Michael Adhin - Speaker of the National Assembly, Suriname – “Emerging Threats and Security Challenges in Suriname”

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM VIEWS FROM CAPITOL HILL

• Michael McCaul - Chairman Emeritus, House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
• Joe Wilson - Senior Member, House Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the bicameral U.S. Helsinki Commission

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM - CHINA COMPETITION

• Piero Tozzi - Deputy Staff Director, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, U.S. House of Representatives
• Daniel Runde - Senior Advisor at BRG Group and senior advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Carl Delfeld - Chairman, The Economic Security Council; President, North America Critical Elements (NACE) Corp.
• Brent Sadler - Senior Research Fellow, Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology, Allison Center for National Security, The Heritage Foundation

4:30 PM – 4:45 PM - FUTURE FORUMS

• Eduard Heger - former Prime Minister, Slovakia PARLIAMENTARY FORUM IN KURDISTAN (APRIL 2026)
• Kevin Vuong - former Member of Parliament, Canada PARLIAMENTARY FORUM IN OTTAWA, CANADA (MAY 2026)

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM - OPEN SESSION