NAFA Annuity Leadership Forum Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. Additionally, he is a frequent contributor to CNN, CBS and MSNBC as a Presidential Historian. He works in many capacities in public history, including museums, colleges, and historical societies and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” The New-York Historical has chosen Brinkley as their official U.S. Presidential Historian.

Brinkley has authored five books and received two Grammy Awards, one for Presidential Suite (large jazz band ensemble) and for Fandango at the Wall (best Latin Jazz) as well eight honorary doctorates in American Studies. His two-volume annotated The Nixon Tapes won the Arthur S. Link – Warren F. Kuehl Prize. Brinkley is a board member of the National Archives Foundation, the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.