Speaker biography

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, serves as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and is also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Speaker Gingrich is a member of the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Commission on National Security, an advisory board member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and a member of the Defense Policy Board. Gingrich also served as co-chair, along with former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, of the Task Force on U.N. Reform created by the Congress in December 2004. The Task Force delivered its report entitled American Interests and U.N. Reform to the Congress in June 2005. Gingrich is also an editorial board member of the Johns Hopkins University Journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism and a news and political analyst for the Fox News Channel. He writes the weekly e-letter "Winning the Future" for Human Events, is a regular contributor to the Church Report, and has a daily national radio commentary called Winning the Future with Newt Gingrich. He is the author of nine books and novels, including NY Times best-seller Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America and most recently, Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory, the third and final novel in his trilogy about the Civil War.

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