TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 @ 2 P.M. EDT

Dr. Ted Carpenter
Senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies, cato institute

Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., is the author of 12 books and more than 850 articles on international issues. His books include The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment, The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations with North and South Korea, and Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Texas in 1980. Dr. Carpenter, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a contributing editor at the National Interest and the American Conservative. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Strategic Studies. Dr. Carpenter's work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many other publications. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs in the United States and throughout the world.

Dr. Andrew Novo
Associate professor of strategic studies, national defense university

Andrew R. Novo is Associate Professor of Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He holds a D.Phil and M.Phil from the University of Oxford and an A.B. from Princeton University. A scholar of ancient and modern Mediterranean history, strategic studies, and military history, Dr. Novo also teaches as an adjunct at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and is a non-resident fellow with the Center for European Policy’s Transatlantic Defense and Security program. He is the author of numerous academic articles and four books, most recently: The EOKA Cause: Nationalism and the Failure of Cypriot Enosis (2021) and Restoring Thucydides: Testing Familiar Lessons and Deriving New Ones (2020) with Dr. Jay Parker. His research interests include great power competition, Mediterranean history, grand strategy, and American foreign policy. He speaks French and Modern Greek and is conversant in Italian.

Nicholas Chimicles, Esq.
Senior partner, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson- Smith LLP
ahi board member

Nicholas Chimicles is the founder and senior partner of Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson- Smith LLP (until recently and for the past 25 years known as Chimicles & Tikellis LLP), a 20-lawyer law firm with offices in Haverford PA and Wilmington DE that specializes in representing consumers and investors in class action litigation. Mr. Chimicles is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia School of Law, and has served as a member of the board of directors of numerous non- profit organizations that serve the underrepresented and underprivileged. Mr. Chimicles is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, an Archon and member of Leadership 100. He and his wife Kathleen have five children and two grandchildren and live in Devon PA.