David Abshire

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

David Abshire is President of the Center of the Study of the Presidency in Washington, DC. He also holds the position of President at the Richard Lounsberry Foundation in New York. Read Full Bio

Peter Ackerman

Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.

Peter Ackerman is Founding Chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and Managing Director of Rockport Capital, Inc., a private investment firm. Read Full Bio

Hushang Ansary

Chairman, Stewart & Stevenson, LLC

Hushang Ansary is a Trustee of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation and sits on the Board of Overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College. Read Full Bio

Michael Armacost

Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, The Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University

Michael Armacost is currently a Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University. Read Full Bio

Richard L Armitage

President, Armitage International

Richard L. Armitage is President of Armitage International, a position he has held since 2005. Armitage was also Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. Read Full Bio

Norman R Augustine

Former President and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Norman R. Augustine is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the world’s largest defense contractor. Read Full Bio

Charlene Barshefsky

Senior International Partner, WilmerHale

Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky is the Senior International Partner at WilmerHale. Read Full Bio

Samuel Berger

Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group

Samuel Berger is the Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group. Read Full Bio

Richard Burt

Chairman, International Equity Partners

Ambassador Richard Burt is chairman of International Equity Partners, an investment banking and advisory services firm in Washington. Read Full Bio

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Counselor and Trustee, The Center for Strategic and International Studies

Dr. Brzezinski is Counselor and Trustee at The Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and President of Z.B. Inc. Read Full Bio

Henry Catto

Vice Chairman, The Aspen Institute

Henry E. Catto currently serves as chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States as well as the vice-chairman of the Aspen Institute.
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Michael Chertoff

Co-founder and Managing Principal, Chertoff Group

The Honorable Michael Chertoff is Co-founder and managing principal of The Chertoff Group. Mr. Chertoff also served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009. Read Full Bio

William H Draper

Managing Director, Draper Richards LP

William H. Draper III is the Managing Director of Draper Richards, LP, and Co-Founder, Director, and Trustee of the Draper Richards Foundation. Read Full Bio

Ken Duberstein

Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group

Ken Duberstein serves as Chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group. Mr. Duberstein served as U.S. President Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff from 1988 to 1989. Read Full Bio

Bruce Gelb

Co-Chair of the Council of American Ambassadors

Ambassador Bruce Gelb is Co-Chair of the council of American Ambassadors. Read Full Bio

David Gergen

Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School

David Gergen is the Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, as well as a Professor of Public Service. Read Full Bio

C Boyden Gray

Former US Ambassador to the European Union

Ambassador C. Boyden Gray currently serves on the board of directors for the Atlantic Council. Read Full Bio

Marc Grossman

Vice President, The Cohen Group

Ambassador Marc Grossman is Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group. His retirement as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in 2005 marked 25 years of service in the public sector. Read Full Bio

Chuck Hagel

Chairman of the Atlantic Council

Chuck Hagel is a Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is Chairman of the Atlantic Council and a Member of the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board. Read Full Bio

Lee Hamilton

President and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Lee Hamilton has served as Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 1999. Read Full Bio

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. Read Full Bio

Stanley Hoffmann

Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University

Stanley Hoffmann is the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University, where he served as Chairman of the Center for European Studies from its creation in 1969 until 1995. Read Full Bio

Martin Indyk

Acting Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution

Ambassador Martin Indyk is Acting Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution. Read Full Bio

John Kerry

Massachusetts Senator, United States Senate

John Kerry is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. He has been a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for 19 years. Read Full Bio

Zalmay Khalilzad

President and CEO, Khalilzad Associates LLC

Zalmay Khalilzad, Ph.D., served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and most recently the United Nations, before stepping down in January 2009. Read Full Bio

Anthony Lake

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

Anthony Lake is the Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Read Full Bio

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

Indiana Senator, United States Senate

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. Read Full Bio

Thomas F McLarty III

Chairman and President, McLarty Associates

Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty III is Chairman and President of McLarty Associates, formerly Kissinger McLarty Associates. Read Full Bio

Ron Nessen

Journalist in Residence, The Brookings Institution

Ron Nessen is Journalist in Residence at The Brookings Institution. From 1974 to 1976, he served as press secretary to President Gerald Ford. Read Full Bio

Thomas Pickering

Vice-Chairman, Hills and Company

Ambassador Thomas Pickering is the Vice Chairman of Hills and Company. Read Full Bio

Margot Pritzker

President and Founder, WomenOnCall.org

Margot Pritzker is the founder and President of WomenOnCall.org, a Chicago-area network that matches women with non-profit organizations that have specific and immediate volunteer needs. Read Full Bio

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 P 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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Brent Scowcroft

President and Founder, The Scowcroft Group

General Brent Scowcroft is President and founder of The Scowcroft Group, an international consulting firm. Read Full Bio

Daniel Senor

Managing Director, Rosemont Solebury Capital Management

Daniel Senor is Managing Director and a founding partner of Rosemont Solebury Capital Management. He is also an adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Read Full Bio

Strobe Talbott

President, The Brookings Institution

Strobe Talbott has served as President of the Brookings Institution since 2002. He was previously Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University. Read Full Bio

Margaret Tutwiler

Senior Vice President and Head of Global Communications and Public Affairs, Merrill Lynch

Ambassador Margaret Tutwiler is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Communications and Public Affairs at Merrill Lynch. Read Full Bio

Vin Weber

Managing Partner, Clark and Weinstock

Vin Weber is managing partner of the Washington, D.C. branch of Clark & Weinstock and Vice-Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy. Read Full Bio

John C Whitehead

Chairman, Goldman Sachs Foundation

John C. Whitehead is Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co., in 1947 and worked there for 38 years. Read Full Bio

James Q Wilson

Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy, The Pepperdine School of Public Policy

James Q. Wilson is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Read Full Bio

James Wolfensohn

Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC

James Wolfensohn is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Wolfensohn & Company, an investment and consulting firm focusing on emerging market economies. Read Full Bio

R James Woolsey

Venture Partner and Senior Advisor, VantagePoint

R. James Woolsey is Venture Partner and Senior Advisor at VantagePoint, Senior Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Of Counsel at Goodwin Procter LLP. Read Full Bio

Philip Zelikow

White Burkett Miller Professor of History, the University of Virginia

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