2024: Vipin Narang
Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science, and Director of the SSP Center for Nuclear Security Policy Program
2023: Kai Bird
Author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2022: Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins
Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security
2021: Rose Gottemoeller
Former deputy secretary of NATO, and the United States chief negotiator of the new START nuclear agreement with the Russian Federation
2020: William J. Perry
Former US Secretary of Defense from 1994-1997
2019: Ernest Moniz
US Secretary of Energy from 2013-2017 and emeritus faculty member in the MIT Department of Physics
2018: David Holloway
Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of Political Science at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University
2017: Jake Sullivan
Served in the Obama administration as national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden
2016: Ambassador Laura Holgate
US Representitive to the Vienna Office of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency
2015: Ambassador Wendy Sherman
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs 2011-2015
2014: Ambassador Robert Gallucci
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service
2013: Robert Jervis
The Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University
2012: Sir Lawrence Freedman
Professor of War Studies, Kings College, London, UK
2011: Ambassador Thomas Pickering
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia (1993–1996), India (1992–1993), the United Nations (1989–1992), Israel (1985–1988), El Salvador (1983–1985), Nigeria (1981–1983), and Jordan (1974–1978). Served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1997 to 2000)
2010: Scott Sagan
Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Standford Univeristy
2009: Hans Blix
Chairman, Weapons of Mass Destruction Committee , former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA; 1981–97) and served as the chief weapons inspector for the United Nations (UN; 2000–03)