Aftermath: U.S. strategy for a new era (Day 1)

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is also a columnist for Real Clear Politics and director of studies for The Public Interest Fellowship. In 2019–21, he served as the director of the State Department’s policy planning staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the secretary of state. He is a member of the American Academy of Sciences & Letters and a 2017 recipient of the Bradley Prize. The author of numerous books, Berkowitz has written hundreds of articles, essays, and reviews for a variety of publications. He holds a BA in English literature from Swarthmore College, an MA in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a JD and a PhD in political science from Yale University.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America and a globally recognized scholar, policy innovator, and public leader. She previously served as the first woman director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State, dean of Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, and a professor at Harvard Law School. The author of five books, she is also a columnist for Project Syndicate and a contributing editor at the Financial Times. Slaughter has received numerous honors, including France’s Legion of Honor and multiple honorary doctorates, and is regularly named among Washington’s most powerful women. She holds an AB from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard University, and an MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University.

Vivian Salama is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She previously reported for The Wall Street Journal, where, most recently, she covered the White House. Much of Salama's earlier career was spent overseas as a foreign correspondent, including as Baghdad bureau chief for The Associated Press, and she has reported from more than 85 countries. Vivian is also an attorney and a member of the District of Columbia Bar. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Rutgers University, a master's degree in Islamic politics from Columbia University, and a law degree from Georgetown University.

William J. Antholis has served as director and CEO of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs since January 2015. In that time, the Miller Center has strengthened its position as the leading nonpartisan research institution on the American presidency and worked with scholars across the University of Virginia to deliver vital research to policymakers and the public. Before coming to the Miller Center, Antholis served as managing director at the Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014, working directly with Brookings’s president and vice presidents. He also served at the U.S. Department of State and National Security Council. Antholis is the author of two books and dozens of articles on U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, the G8, climate change, and trade. He holds a BA from UVA and a PhD from Yale University.

Jeffrey W. Legro, a Miller Center nonresident senior fellow, is university professor at the University of Richmond, where he was also the executive vice president and provost from 2017 to 2023. Before that he was the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor and vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia. A specialist on international affairs, Legro is the author of numerous  books  and  articles, including  Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order and Cooperation Under Fire: Restraint During World War II. He co-edited  To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine; Shaper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World; and  In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Richmond World Affairs Council. Legro holds a BA in Russian and economics from Middlebury College and an MA and PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

John Owen is a Miller Center faculty senior fellow and the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. His latest book is The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order, which was awarded the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for World Order from the University of Louisville. He also is the author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War: American Politics and International Security and The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change 1510-2010. A recipient of fellowships from Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton Universities, Owen is a member of the editorial board of International Security and a faculty fellow at the UVA Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He holds an AB from Duke University, an MPA from Princeton University, and a PhD from Harvard University.