The biggest and most influential names in the world have come to Indian Wells, creating lifetime memories for all those who attend. The noted list of speakers in the series’ history is indeed impressive.

2024
James Stavridis
David Pogue
Michael Oren
Karl Rove

2023
Frank Abagnale
Kimberley Strassel
Mike Pompeo
Walter Isaacson

2022
Sarah Huckabee Sanders & Mike Huckabee
Jon Meacham
Ron Howard & Clint Howard
Paul Nicklen

2021
Bill O’Reilly
Dave Barry

2020
Trey Gowdy
Bob Costas

2019
Chris Christie
Dana Perino
Rob O’Neill
Dennis Prager & Adam Carolla

2018
Michael Hayden and Sir John Scarlett
Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords
Caroline Kennedy
Chris Wallace

2017
Scott Kelly
Condoleezza Rice
Tucker Carlson (FOX News) and Paul Begala (CNN)
Michael Lewis

2016
Bill O’Reilly
Nando Parrado
Felipe Calderón
David Petraeus

2015
Mitt Romney
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Platon
Charles Krauthammer

2014
Leon Panetta
Lisa Ling & Laura Ling
Karl Rove
Benjamin Carson

2013
Sanjay Gupta
Tina Brown
Jeb Bush
Stanley McChrystal

2012
Dick Cheney & Liz Cheney
David Brooks
Robert Gates
Robert Ballard

2011
Fareed Zakaria
George W. Bush
Bill Bradley
Jeannette Walls

2010
Andrew Weil
Condoleezza Rice
Pervez Musharraf
Newt Gingrich

2009
Charlie Rose
Peggy Noonan
Desmond Tutu
Paul Krugman

2008
Tony Blair
Tony Snow
Jane Bryant Quinn
Cal Thomas & Bob Beckel

2007
Carly Fiorina
Tom Friedman
Malcolm Gladwell
Colin L. Powell

2006
Benazir Bhutto
Ken Burns
Richard Myers
Bob Dole & Tom Daschle

2005
The McLaughlin Group
Ehud Barak
Doris Kearns Goodwin
George Tenet

2004
Tommy Franks
Stuart Varney
Frank Abagnale
Karen Hughes

2003
Rudy Giuliani
Garrison Keillor
Bill O’Reilly
David Gergen

2002
Benjamin Netanyahu
William Cohen
John Walsh
Bernard Shaw

2001
John Major
James Baker, III
David & Julie Eisenhower
Robert Ballard

2000
Helen Thomas & Mike McCurry
Newt Gingrich with Andrea Mitchell
Jean Michel Cousteau
HM Queen Noor

1999
Bob Dole
George Will
Beck Weathers
Barbara Bush with Hugh Downs
(Pres. Bush substituted)

1998
Lady Margaret Thatcher
Norman Schwarzkopf
Vincent Bugliosi
William F. Buckley, Jr.

1997
(1st year as nonprofit)
Shimon Peres
Henry Kissinger
Stuart Varney
Beverly Sills

1996
James Lovell
Dick Cheney
Doris Kearns Goodwin & David McCullough
Cokie Roberts

1995
Alan M. Dershowitz
William J. Bennett
Hedrick Smith
Colin L. Powell

1994
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Terry Waite
George H.W Bush
Larry King

1993
Vladimir Pozner
Tom Wolfe
Dan Rather
Lady Margaret Thatcher