Ronan O’Malley

As the Chief Program Officer for the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston, Ronan O’Malley oversees the large variety of speakers and events hosted by the Council. He also teaches continuing education and professional development classes at the Council on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy.

Ronan has a BA in International Studies and History, and an MBA in International Business. Before joining the Council in 2012, he worked as a real estate broker for 10 years. Having moved as a young boy with his family from Ireland to the U.S., Ronan’s insatiable curiosity and keen interest in global affairs began many years ago – and still drives him to keep learning to this day.

In his over twelve years with the World Affairs Council, he has had the privilege of interviewing a wide array of U.S. national security decision-makers, foreign leaders & dissidents, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, and other notable individuals including:

General Jim Mattis, 26th Secretary of Defense of the United States
Nancy Pelosi, 52nd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Robert Gates, 22nd Secretary of Defense of the United States & 15th Director of the CIA
Jake Sullivan, 28th United States National Security Advisor
Susan Rice, 24th United States National Security Advisor & 27th U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Lt. General James Clapper, 4th Director of National Intelligence
General David Petraeus, 10th Commander of USCENTCOM & Fmr. Director of the CIA
General Stanley McChrystal, Fmr. U.S. Commander of Afghanistan (ISAF) & JSOC
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian political prisoner & opposition leader who was poisoned twice
Bill Browder, CEO Hermitage Capital & Putin’s ‘most wanted man’ as force behind Magnitsky Act
Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Fmr. Spokesman for Iran’s Nuclear Negotiations
Juan Guaidó, Interim President of Venezuela & opposition leader
Jianli Yang, Chinese dissident & political prisoner
David Brooks, The New York Times
Pulitzer Prize Winner Joby Warrick