David Abshire

President and CEO of the Center for the Study of the Presidency

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Michael Armacost

Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, The Asia Pacific Center at Stanford University

Michael Armacost was President of The Brookings Institution in Washington DC from 1995 until July 2002.
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Richard Armitage

President of Armitage International

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Norman Augustine

Retired Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin

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Samuel Berger

Chairman, Stonebridge International LLC

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Zbigniew Brzezinski

Counselor-In-Residence, Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Henry Catto

Chairman, The Atlantic Council of the United States

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William Draper

Managing Director, Draper Richards LP

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Ken Duberstein

Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group

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David Gergen

Director of the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

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Marc Grossman

Vice President, The Cohen Group

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Richard Haass

President, Council on Foreign Relations

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Chuck Hagel

United States Senator (R-NE)

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Lee Hamilton

Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Lee Hamilton has served as Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. since 1999.
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Carla Hills

Chairman and CEO, Hills and Company

Ambassador Carla Hills is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hills and Company, a Washington D.C.- based consulting company that advises clients on international trade and investment issues
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Stanley Hoffman

Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University

Stanley Hoffman is the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University, and he was the Chairman of the Center for European Studies at Harvard from its creation in 1969 until 1995.
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Martin Indyk

Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Middle East expert and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Martin S. Indyk, is the head of the Saban Center on Middle East Policy.
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Anthony Lake

Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Anthony Lake is the Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Aaron Lobel

President, America Abroad Media

Aaron Lobel founded America Abroad Media (AAM) and serves as the organization's president and chairman of the board, as well as executive producer of America Abroad and AAM Television.
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Richard Lugar

United States Senator (R-IN)

Richard Lugar is the senior United States Senator from Indiana and the longest serving senator in Indiana history, having being elected to a fourth term in 1994.
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Ernest May

Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University

Ernest May has been a professor of History since 1963 at Harvard University and Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard since 1981.
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Ron Nessen

Journalist -in-Residence, The Brookings Institution

Ron Nessen is Journalist-in-Residence at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He served as press secretary to President Gerald Ford from 1974-76.
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Thomas Pickering

Vice-Chairman, Hills and Company

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Susan Rice

The Stephen and Barbara Friedman Endowed Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Susan Rice is The Stephen and Barbara Friedman Endowed Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
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Felix Rohatyn

President and Chairman, Rohatyn Associates LLC

Felix Rohatyn is currently the President and Chairman of Rohatyn Associates, LLC. He previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to France under the Clinton Administration from 1997-2000.
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Stephen Rosen

Stephen Peter Rosen is the Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University and director of Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Dennis Ross

Distinguished Fellow and Counselor, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Dennis Ross is currently Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Brent Scowcroft

President, The Scowcroft Group

General Brent Scowcroft is president of The Scowcroft Group, an international consulting firm.
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James Steinberg

Dean, Lyndon Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas

James Steinberg is the Dean of the Lyndon Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.
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Strobe Talbott

President, The Brookings Institution

Strobe Talbott succeeded Michael Armacost as President of the Brookings Institution in July 2002.
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Vin Weber

Managing Partner, Clark and Weinstock

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John Whitehead

Former Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs

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James Wilson

Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University

James Q. Wilson is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA.
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James Woolsey

Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton in 2002 as a Vice-President in the Global Strategic Security practice.
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Philip Zelikow

White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia

Dr. Philip D. Zelikow is currently the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
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