2007 - Climate: Changes, Challenges and Consequences

• Suzanne Hunt, Independent Consultant
• Dr. Cynthia E. Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University and a Coordinating Lead Author with the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC)
• Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, PBS Jim Lehrer NewsHour (Host)

2006 –  Power of  the People:  Bottom-up Solutions to Hunger

• Dr. Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede, Medical Doctor and Development Activist (Nigeria)
• Dr. Deepa Narayan, World Bank Senior Advisor on Poverty Reduction (India)
• Eva Clayton, Former Congresswoman and FAO Associate Director-General  (retired)
  Live uplink from World Food Prize
• Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, of the PBS Jim Lehrer NewsHour (Host)

2005 – Reflections on Fighting Hunger:  Roads not Taken; Goals not Met; The Journey Ahead

• Frances Moore Lappé, Author and Hunger Activist
• Dr. Pedro Sanchez, UN Task Force on Hunger and World Food Prize Laureate
• Dr. Wangari Maathai,  Nobel Peace Prize LaureateKenya)
• Ambassador Tony Hall, U.S. Representative to the Rome Food Agencies Live uplink from World Food Prize
• Daniel Zwerdling, Senior Correspondent, NPR   (Host)

2004 - Politics of Hunger: What's at Stake?

• Dr. Werner Kiene, World Food Program representative to the World Bank (Austria)
• Dr. Felipe Manteiga, Former Director of World Food Security at AID
• Live uplink from World Food Prize ceremonies with Dr. Norman Borlaug; cameo appearance by Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Venaman.
• Daniel Zwerdling, Senior Correspondent, NPR (Host)

2003 - Collaboration or Calamity: Africa in Peril

• Dr. Urban Jonsson, UNICEF Senior Advisor on Human Rights and former Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa (Sweden)
• Dr. Catherine Bertini, UN Under Secretary-General and Winner of the 2004 World Food Prize
• Cameo Appearances by Rudo Chitiga (Zimbabwe), Commonwealth Foundation; Julius Coles, Africare; Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson; Ambassador Tony Hall; Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI; Bruce Moore, International Land Coalition (IFAD); Jean-Francois Rischard, World Bank; Mme. Marie Angelique Savane (Senegal), African Association for Women In Development; Marcella Villarreal, FAO
• Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, PBS Jim Lehrer NewsHour (Host) .

2002 – Hungry Farmers:  A National Security Issue for all

• Professor Michael Lipton, Founder of the Poverty Research Institute at the University of Sussex and Lead Author of  IFAD's 2001 Rural Poverty Report. (England)
• Cameo Appearances by Louise Fresco, Assistant Director-General of FAO's Agriculture Department and Ambassador George McGovern, former Senator from South Dakota and U.S. Ambassador to the Food Agencies in Rome
• Michael Marlow, Producer of White House Chronicles.

2001 -- World Food Svstem: Serving Some or Serving All

• Dr. Wenche Barth Eide, Institute for Nutrition Research, University of Oslo, and pioneer advocate for a human-rights based approach to development
• Cameo Appearances by Ann M. Veneman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development.
• Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, PBS Jim Lehrer NewsHour (Host) .

2000 -- Povertv and Hunger: The Tragic Link

• Prof. Amartya K. Sen, Winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics in a "Conversation with Prof. Sen" (India)
• Cameo Appearances by Dr. Catherine Bertini, Director-General of the World Food Program and Dr. Hartwig DeHaen, Assistant Director-General of FAO.
• Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, PBS Jim Lehrer NewsHour (Host)

1999 -- Tomorrow's Farmers: An Uncertain Future

• Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, General Manager, Ethiopian Environmental Authority
• Dr. Kevin D. Gallagher, Global Integrated Pest Management Expert, FAO
• Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, Economist and former Vice-President of Costa Rica
• Dr. Rekha Mehra, Vice President, International Center for Research on Women (India)
• Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, PBS Jim Lehrer NewsHour (Moderator)

1998 -- Food for All: Right or Goal

• Ms. Betty Oyella Bigombe, Social Scientist, World Bank (Uganda)
• Ms. Anuradha Mittal, U.S. Coordinator, Food First Information and Action Network (India)
• Mr. Arne Oshaug, Deputy General Director General, Royal Ministry of Agriculture (Norway)
• Mr. Leonard Rogers, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Humanitarian Response (USAID)
• Ray Suarez, Host of Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio (Moderator)

1997 -- World Food Summit: Promises and Prospects

• Ms. Rudo Chitiga, Director-General, Global Programs, Development Innovations and Networks (Zimbabwe)
• Ms. Kay Killingsworth, Secretary-General, World Food Summit, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
• Mr. Antonio Quizon, Executive Director, Asian NGO Network (Philippines)
• Dr. Flavio Valente, Global Secretariat, Global Forum on Sustainable Food and Nutritional Security (Brazil)
• John Hockenberry, Correspondent, Dateline NBC (Moderator)

1996 -- People Power: Harvest of Hope

• Mr. Roland Bunch, Author and Consultant on Rural Development (Honduras)
• Dr. Florence Chenoweth, FAO Representative in The Gambia
• Ms. Ravadee Prasertcharoensuk, Secretary Southeast Asia Association on Sustainable Agriculture (Thailand)
• Dr. Plinio Sampaio, Professor of Economics at Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
• Ray Suarez, Host of Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio (Moderator)

1995 -- Fiqhting Hunger: Looking Back. Looking Ahead

• Dr. Leena Maria Kirjavainen, Director, FAO Division of Women and People's Participation
• Dr. Howard R. Kramer, Director, AID Food for Peace
• Bishop Mauro Morelli, President of Brazilian National Food Security Council
• Dr. Gerald I. Trant, Executive Director of UN World Food Council (1986-1992)
• Sanford J. Ungar, Dean, School of Communications, American University (Moderator)

1994 -- Sharing Water: Farms. Cities and Ecosystems

• Dr. Jose Felix Alfaro, International Consultant on Water
• Ms. Sandra Postel, Director, The Global Water Policy Project
• Ms. Rita Schmidt Sudman, Executive Director, Water Education Foundation
• Dr. Hans W. Wolter, Chief, FAO Water Resources Development and Management Service
• Alex Chadwick, National Public Radio (Moderator)

1993 -- Seeds of Conflict: Biodiversitv and Food Security

• Dr. Jose Esquinas Alcazar, Secretary, FAO Commission on Plant Genetic Resources
• Dr. Jeffrey Bennetzen, Purdue University
• Dr. Geoffrey Hawtin, Director-General, International Board for Plant Genetic Resources
• Ms. Hope Shand, Research Director, Rural Advancement Foundation International
• Miriam Hernandez, CBS-TV Washington (Moderator)

1992 -- Nutrition: Linking Food. Health and Development

• Dr. Richard Jolly, Deputy Director of UNICEF
• Dr. Fernando Monckeberg, Director of Institute of Nutrition and Technology (Chile)
• Dr. A. Wynante Patterson, Director of the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (Jamaica)
• Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Director-General of the International Food Policy Research Institute
• Deborah Potter, Washington-based correspondent for CNN (Moderator)

1991 -- The Hunger Puzzle: Adding the Macroeconomic Pieces -Trade. Debt and Structural Adjustment

• Antonio Cabrera Mano Filho, Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (Brazil)
• Dr. Hazel Henderson, economist and author
• Dr. Norman Hicks, World Bank economic advisor for Latin American and the Caribbean
• Dr. Atherton Martin, Caribbean development specialist and former minister of agriculture of the Commonwealth of Dominica
• Georgie Ann Geyer, columnist and author (Moderator)

1990 -- Food for the Future: Science. Policy and Ethics

• Ambassador Robert O. Blake, chairperson of the Committee on Agricultural Sustainability for Developing Countries
• Professor Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, rector of United Nations University (Tokyo)
• Dr. Joan Dye Gussow, Mary Swartz Rose Professor of Nutrition and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Dr. John S. Niederhauser, 1990 World Food Prize Laureate for work in potato breeding
• Nancy Amadei, syndicated columnist and lecturer (Moderator)

1989 -- Food. Environment and Development

• Senator Albert Gore, Jr., Senate leader on environmental issues
• Dr. Verghese Kurien, Indian Dairy Cooperative, World Food Prize Laureate
• Ambassador Stephen Lewis, former Permanent Representative to UN from Canada
• Dr. Roberta Balstad Miller, Director, Division of Social and Economic Science of the National Science Foundation
• Judy Woodruff, chief Washington correspondent for PBS MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (Moderator)

1988 -- Global Food Security: Focus on Africa

• Dr. Duane Acker, AID Director for Food and Agriculture and former president of Kansas State University
• Prof. Adebayo Adedeji, Executive Director of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (Nigeria)
• Prof. Mazide N'Diaye, President of the Congress of Non-Governmental Organizations for Development (Senegal)
• Dr. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Vice-President of Equator Bank Ltd., and a founder of the Liberian Action Party (Liberia)
• Renee Poussaint, WJLA- TV Washington News Anchorwoman (Moderator)

1987 -- Right to Food: From Awareness to Action

• Dr. Hernando De Soto, founder and director, Institute for Liberty and Democracy (Peru)
• Dr. John Gatu, Vice-President of the All-Africa Council of Churches (Kenya)
• Ms. Anne Kanten, founding member of the American Agriculture Movement
• Ms. Torild Skard, Chief of Multilateral Department, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Development Cooperation
• Maureen Bunyan, CBS-TV Washington news anchorwoman (Moderator)

1986 - Hunger Amidst Plenty.

• Dr. Patricia Barnes-McConnell, Director of Michigan State University Collaborative Research Support Program
• Mr. Barber Conable, President of the World Bank
• Ambassador Cecilia Lopez, former vice-minister of Agriculture of Colombia
• Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder and director of Grameen Bank (Bangladesh)
• John Scali, ABC News senior correspondent and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (Moderator)

1985 - Food and Poverty: Perspectives. Policies. Prospects.

• Ms. Barbara Huddleston, Chief of FAO Food Security Service
• Mr. Peter McPherson, Administrator, Agency for International Development
• Senator Paul Sarbanes, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Mme. Marie Savane, President, Association of African Women for Research on Development (Sengal)
• Rene Poussaint, WJLA-TV news anchorwoman (Moderator)

1984 - World Food Conference - Ten Years Later

• John R. Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
• Father William Byron, President of The Catholic University of America
• Dr. Ruth Finney, Chief of FAO's Women in Agriculture Service
• Dr. Frederick Hutchinson, Executive Director, BIFAD
• Rep. Mickey Leland, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger
• Ambassador M' Alineo Tau of Lesotho
• Professor William Dando, author of "Geography of Famine" (Moderator)