Distinguished leaders — ALEKSANDRA

Ivanka Trump | American Business Woman, Advisor to the President

Michael R. Bloomberg | 108th Mayor of New York City, Economic Club of Chicago

Madeleine Albright | First Female Secretary of State, 1997-2001, Chicago, IL

Mitt Romney | Junior United States Senator, 70th Governor of Massachusetts

Bruce Rauner | 42nd Governor of Illinois 2015 to 2019

John Richard Kasich Jr. | 69th Governor of Ohio 2001-2018

Viola Davis | Actress, Winner of the Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Awards

Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov | Russian Conductor and Violinist

Valery Gergiev | Russian conductor, Russian Embassy, Washington DC

Igor Butman | Russian Jazz Saxophonist

Albina Shagimuratova | Russian Coloratura Soprano, Lyric Opera of Chicago

Anna Netrebko | Operatic Soprano, Lyric Opera of Chicago, IL

Kimberly Vandenberg | American Olympic Swimmer and Medalist

Olena Vitrychenko | Olympic Medalist and World Champion

Vladimir Mukhin | Famous Chef, Moscow's White Rabbit

Boris Eifman | Ballet Choreographer & Artistic Director, Auditorium Theater, 2015, Chicago, IL

Larissa Saveliev & Sergei Filin | Larissa, Founder of YAGP and Sergei, Director of the Young Artists Ballet Program at the Bolshoi Theatre

Christopher Gardner | The Pursuit of Happiness, Author, Business Man, Motivational Speaker

Richard Joseph Durbin | United State Senator and Senate Democratic Whip

John McCain | United States Senator for Arizona 1987-2018

Bob Dold | Former Congressman of Illinois, 2001-2013/2015-2017, Washington D.C.

Rahm Emanuel | 55th Mayor of Chicago

Richard M. Daley | 54th Mayor of Chicago

William M. Daley | Former White House Chief of Staff

Darin McKay LaHood I U.S. House of Representatives

Mark Kirk | United States Senator from Illinois from 2010 to 2017

Admiral Stephen C. Evans | Rear Admiral, United States Navy

Prince Piotr Galitzine and Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States Sergey I. Kislyak, Russia Day Gala, June 2013

Sergey I. Kislyak | Former Ambassador of Russia to the U.S.

Mike McFaul | Ambassador of United States to Russia US Embassy, Moscow, Russia, April 2012

Oksana Viktorovna Pushkina | Deputy of the Duma of the Russian Federation

Rashid Aydinovich Ismailov | Chairman at Russian Ecological Society

Sergey Evgenievich Cheremin | Minister of the Moscow Government, Head of the Department of External Economic and International Relations of the City of Moscow

Grigor Hovhannissian | Ambassador of Armenia to the United States from 2016-2018

Anatoly Antonov | Ambassador of Russia to the United States

Andris Bērziņš President of Latvia | Chicago NATO, May 2012

Matthew James Salmon | U.S. House of Representatives for Arizona 2013-2017

Dean Nitin Nohria | Harvard Business School

Amy Rule | Former First Lady of Chicago

Zac Posen | American Fashion Designer

Richard Herman Driehaus | Founder, Chief Investment Officer, and Chairman of Driehaus Capital Management LLC

Robert Steven Kaplan | President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas