Speakers
Take a look at our speakers scheduled for AJC Global Forum 2026.
Dr. Maya Ackerman
Co-Founder & CEO
WaveAI
Deputy Sabrina Ajmechet
Member, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina; Presidente, Argentinian Forum Against Antisemitism (FACA)
Professor Dr. Iqbal Akhtar
Associate Professor, Religious Studies and Politics & International Relations
Florida International University
Kwaku Appiah-Menka
Executive Director
Appiah Menka Complex LTD
Olugbenga Awe
Founder and Managing Director
Aether Limited
Anas Bachar
Co-Founder
Africa Organics
Farah Bdour
Policy Fellow
Israel Policy Forum
Dr. Matthias J. Becker
AddressHate Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Antisemitism
New York University
Mayor Steve Benjamin
President & CEO, The Benjamin Firm LLC; Senior Advisor to the President of the U.S. (2023-25)
Ronen Bergman
Investigative journalist, historian, lawyer, NYT bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner
Josh Blumenfeld
Senior Advisor, Government Affairs and Public Policy
YouTube, Google
Christen Broecker
Director, Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
American Jewish Committee
Dr. Sara Brown
Regional Director, AJC San Diego
American Jewish Committee
Seth Brysk
Regional Director, AJC Northern California
American Jewish Committee
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Senior Rabbi
Central Synagogue
Joel Burnie
Executive Manager
Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)
Benedetta Buttiglione
Director, AJC Transatlantic Institute
American Jewish Committee
Revati Campbell
University of Glasgow, Paideia ‘26
Hagar Chemali
Co-Founder
The Lebanon-Israel Peace Alliance
Dr. Harel Chorev
Senior Researcher, Moshe Dayan Center
Tel Aviv University
Gili Cohen
Senior Diplomatic Correspondent
Israeli Public Broadcaster, "KAN"
Dr. Sara Coodin
Director of Academic Affairs
American Jewish Committee
Jordana Cutler
Director of Public Policy, Israel & the Jewish Diaspora
Meta
Jamie Denbo
Writer, Producer, Actor, Comedian
Ted Deutch
Chief Executive Officer, Edward and Sandra Meyer Office of the CEO
American Jewish Committee
Ariela Di Gioacchino
President
World Union of Jewish Students
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier
Chancellor
Vanderbilt University
Anne Dreazen
Vice President, AJC Center for a New Middle East
American Jewish Committee
Senator John Fetterman
U.S. Senator, D Pennsylvania
Julie Fishman Rayman
Senior Vice President Policy and Political Affairs
American Jewish Committee
Professor Rosa Freedman
Professor of Law, Conflict, and Global Development
University of Reading
Deputy Josè Glinski
Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Argentina
Mayor Todd Gloria
Mayor, City of San Diego, California
Dr. Ari Gordon
Director, Muslim-Jewish Relations
American Jewish Committee
Reva Gorelick
Interim Director of AJC Abu Dhabi
American Jewish Committee
Daniela Greene
Deputy Director, Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs
American Jewish Committee
Emily Grunewald
Principal
Blue Laurel
Emma Hallali
Advisor, ACCESS Europe
American Jewish Committee
Dr. Alexandra Herzog
Director, William Petschek Global Jewish Communities Department
American Jewish Committee
Dara Horn
Award-Winning Author
Gayle Horwitz
Director, Center for Education Policy
American Jewish Committee
Holly Huffnagle
Director, Antisemitism Policy
American Jewish Committee
Dr. Brian Hughes
Director, USC Shoah Foundation Countering Antisemitism Lab
USC Shoah Foundation
Sarah Hurwitz
Chief Speechwriter, First Lady Michelle Obama (2010-17); Author, Here All Along and As a Jew
Jonathan Iadarola
Adelaide University '27
Jason Isaacson
Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer
American Jewish Committee
Adnan Jaber
Board Member; AI and Peacebuilding Strategist
Tech2Peace
Dhruva Jaishankar
Executive Director
Observer Research Foundation America
Sophie Kalmin
Emory University '26
Joyce Karam
Editor-in-Chief
Al-Monitor
Shaul Kelner
Professor, Jewish Studies and Sociology
Vanderbilt University
Zvika Klein
Editor-in-Chief
The Jerusalem Post
Aviva Klompas
CEO
Boundless
Josh Kraushaar
Editor-in-Chief
Jewish Insider
Marvin Krislov
President
Pace University
Dr. Mercy Kuo
Senior Contributing Author
The Diplomat
Casey Kustin
Chief Impact and Operations Officer
American Jewish Committee
Anna Langer
Vice President, North American Israel Strategy
Jewish Federations of North America
Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner
Rabbi, Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, Yeshiva University’s Straus Center
AJC Scholar in Residence
Fredrick Levin
AJC Board of Governors
Lt. Col. (res.) Avital Liebovich
Director, AJC Jerusalem
American Jewish Committee
Ethan Linden
Vice President, Edward Fein Director of Wellspring
Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
Ruth Lischinsky
Parent of Yaron Lischinsky z"l
Daniel Lischinsky
Parent of Yaron Lischinsky z"l
Shira Loewenberg
Director, AJC Asia Pacific Institute
American Jewish Committee
Deborah Marcus
Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Paramount, a Skydance Corporation
Agnieszka Markiewicz
Rubin and Frances Partel Director, Shapiro Silverberg AJC Central Europe Institute
American Jewish Committee
Melanie Maron Pell
Chief Engagement Officer
American Jewish Committee
Cheyenne Mawad
Co-Founder
The Lebanon-Israel Peace Alliance
Hen Mazzig
Author and Co-Founder
The Tel Aviv Institute
Senator Dave McCormick
U.S. Senator, R Pennsylvania
Bob & Nancy Milgrim
Parents of Sarah Milgrim z"l
Nessim Mugrabi
President
Latin American Federation of Jewish Youth
H.E. Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė
Ambassador of the European Union to the United States
H.E. Ambassador Alejandro Oxenford
Ambassador of Argentina to the United States
Peter Paltchik
Two-time Olympic Medalist; Israel's Most Decorated Judo Fighter
Professor Marcos Peckel
Executive Director
Confederation of Jewish Communities of Colombia
Asoka Ranaweera
Managing Partner
Grid2Grid, LLC
Barak Ravid
Global Affairs Correspondent
Axios
Kari Reid
U.S. Director
Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP)
Dr. Dave Rich MBE
Director of Policy
Community Security Trust
Mayor Daniel Rickenmann
Mayor, City of Columbia, South Carolina
Benjamin Rogers
Director, Middle East and North Africa Initiatives; Deputy Director, AJC Center for a New Middle Eas
American Jewish Committee
David Rosenberg
Managing Partner
NeoPrime Capital Partners
Jake Rymer
University of Chicago '27
Rabbi David Saperstein
Director Emeritus
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Professor Jonathan D. Sarna
Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History (emeritus)
Brandeis University
Professor Leonard Saxe
Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy
Brandeis University
Ambassador Daniel Shapiro
Distinguished Fellow, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative; U.S. Ambassador to Israel (2011-17)
Atlantic Council
Dr. Laura Shaw Frank
Vice President, AJC Center for Education Advocacy
American Jewish Committee
Dina Siegel Vann
Director, AJC Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs
American Jewish Committee
Keith Siegel
Captivity Survivor
Aviva Siegel
Captivity Survivor
Daniel Silver
Senior Vice President, Diplomatic Affairs
American Jewish Committee
Wayne Sussman
Director, AJC Africa Institute
American Jewish Committee
Jeremy Suss
President
Australasian Union of Jewish Students
Hanna Veiler
President
European Union of Jewish Students
Dr. Noam Weissman
Executive Vice President
OpenDor Media
Sammi Weiss
Lewis & Clark College '27
Dov Wilker
Vice President Advocacy and Innovation and Regional Director, AJC Atlanta
American Jewish Committee