Former State Department director of policy planning and lead U.S. official on Afghanistan and Northern Ireland (2001-2003), and principal Middle East adviser to President George H.W. Bush (1989-93). Author or editor of eleven books on U.S. foreign policy, including War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars.

Pulitzer Prize-winner, former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in State and Defense Departments; expert on U.S. foreign policy and national security. Author of the new book Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins, March 2009).

Former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration; expert on national security and terrorism. Author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, October 2010).

Former deputy editor of Newsweek International and director at EurasiaGroup.

Senior vice president, director of studies, Maurice R. Greenberg chair, and Award-winning coauthor of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy.

Former corporate lawyer and banker with expertise in international law and conflict prevention.

Former senior director for democracy and human rights, senior director for the Near East, and deputy national security adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush administration. Former assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, human rights, and Latin America in the Reagan administration.

Director and senior strategist for commodity cross-asset strategy at Citigroup and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Current research focuses energy, finance, and international economics.

Former Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. Recently co-directed the Independent Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy and was the project director for the Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy. Latest book, The Closing of the American Border, examines U.S. visa and border policies in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Vice president of energy research at IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA). Current work focuses on energy and national security issues.

Journalism professor at New York University. Former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday. Currently working on a project about sectarian politics in the Middle East.

Partner at Arnold & Porter, LLP. Former legal adviser for the U.S. Department of State and National Security Council. Currently directing a roundtable series on international and national security law.

Author of American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security and professor at Columbia University. Commissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism and former staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Current work examines the U.S. national security agenda.

Author of In Defense of Globalization, special adviser to the UN and the World Trade Organization, and professor of law and economics at Columbia University. Latest book, Termites in the Trading System, discusses the deleterious effects of preferential trade agreements.

Award-winning author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle. Former associate professor and Elihu Root chair of military studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. Current work examines U.S. defense policy and strategy.

Former deputy assistant to the president, deputy national security adviser for strategic planning, and presidential envoy to Iraq under George W. Bush. U.S. Ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. Current work focuses on American foreign policy writ large as well as American foreign policy toward India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Expert on legal and regulatory issues in global health, technological innovation and delivery, and international trade. Adjunct professor of law, former U.S. trade negotiator. Currently directing a roundtable series on Global Health, Economics, and Development.

Award-winning author, historian, and military strategist. Author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power and War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. Finishing a history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism (forthcoming, W.W. Norton & Co., 2012).

Former director for Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. Leading architect of U.S. policy toward Indonesia during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Currently directing a roundtable series that focuses on Asia.

Career Foreign Service officer and former ambassador to Nigeria. Political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria during South Africa's first non-racial elections. His book Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink was published by Rowman & Littlefield in November 2010.

Former private sector oil analyst and instructor in finance and economics at Oxford University. Current research focuses on energy security and policy, global commodities markets, and natural resource economics.

Director of Google Ideas, Google Inc. Former member of the policy planning staff under both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.

Internationally renowned expert on the Chinese legal system and professor at NYU School of Law. Current work examines the rule of law in Asian countries.

Author of the book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East (Random House, 2010). Contributing author to Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). Coauthor of Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006).

Author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (Oxford University Press, Fall 2011) and Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world.

Former head, Office of the Quartet Representative, Tony Blair, in Jerusalem. Former State Department and National Security Council official with over twenty years government experience specializing in the Middle East. Currently researching and writing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Arab uprisings, and U.S. interests in the Middle East. Advises Quartet Representative Tony Blair.

A corporate executive with extensive experience in high technology and international political economy. Currently directing a roundtable series on technology, innovation, and American primacy.

Former deputy director of the Asia and Pacific department at the International Monetary Fund. Author of the Council Special Report, Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis.

Award-winning author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future. Currently writing a new book on China's rise and its geopolitical and strategic implications.

Expert on counterterrorism and national security issues. Principal at Chertoff Group. Former deputy commissioner for counterterrorism with the New York City Police Department.

Former deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, deputy assistant secretary of state for Central Asia, and member of the secretary of state's policy planning staff for East Asia and the Pacific. Current work focuses principally on China, India, geopolitics in Asia, and the role of the United States in East, Central, and South Asia.

Distinguished public service professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Former assistant secretary of state for African affairs, U.S. ambassador to South Africa, and special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs in the George W. Bush administration.

Author of two bestsellers (The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health). Recently published I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks. Presently writing a book examining the global impact of infectious disease.

Public affairs strategic consultant and former vice president for public affairs and policy at Pfizer Inc. Currently leading a global coalition on aging and health to drive public policy changes on international agendas.

Founding editor of the journal Global Health Governance. Currently researching the roles of emerging powers and non-state actors in shaping global health governance. Forthcoming book looks at public health and health governance issues in contemporary China.

Author of The Islamist (Penguin, 2007). Former founding director of Quilliam, the British counter-extremism think tank. Previously a member and strategist for radical Islamist organizations in London.

Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret.). Former commander of Air Force Global Strike Command. Previously defense attaché to Moscow and director for nuclear policy and arms control on the National Security Council staff. Current work examines the way ahead for the nuclear agenda.

Author of No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn, to be released in March 2012. Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. Former director for European affairs at the National Security Council.

Former foreign correspondent and journalist covering Southeast Asia. Current research focuses on reinvigorating U.S. policy toward Southeast Asia, China's strategy toward Southeast Asia, and lessons of Indonesia as a successful Muslim-majority democracy. Author of Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World, released in 2006, and of numerous articles and briefs on Southeast Asia, China, and democratization in the developing world.

Concentration chair and visiting professor in the master of science in foreign service program at Georgetown University. Former ambassador-at-large to combat trafficking in persons and deputy assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Former senior adviser at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Assistant professor of international affairs at the New School University. Directing the CFR-sponsored study on the political economy of democratic transitions and writing a book about global economic governance and inclusive growth. Coauthor of the Social & Economic Rights Fulfillment (SERF) Index.

Journalist and researcher focusing on U.S. foreign policy, international development, women and economic development, and global entrepreneurship. Contributing editor-at-large at Newsweek/Daily Beast and author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (HarperCollins, 2011), about a young woman whose business supported her family and her community during the Taliban years.

Author of On Nuclear Terrorism. Directed the recent CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change.

Contributing editor to the Financial Times. Author of the book More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, released in June 2010. Former columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post.

Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India.

Director of the recent Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Latin America. Currently authoring a book on Mexico and U.S.-Mexico relations (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, former member of State Department policy planning staff handling Northern Ireland peace process, Iran, Syria, and relations with the Muslim world.

Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup. Columnist for Bloomberg View. Former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama.

Former State Department policy planning staff member. Author of Weak Links:Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security, released in May 2011. Current work focuses on U.S. policy toward global governance and how to address transnational threats.

Best-selling author and analyst on national security and foreign policy issues. Currently working on a book on Afghanistan and conducting a study on the future of special operations forces.

Currently leading projects on cybersecurity and cyberconflict. Recent book Advantage looks at the technological competitive advantages of Asia and the United States. Previously the project director for a CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on Chinese military modernization.

Former foreign policy adviser in the administration of George W. Bush and senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; previous foreign policy and communications aide in the U.S. Senate. Currently a founding partner of Rosemont Capital and author of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle.

Former ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for policy toward the states of the former Soviet Union. Directed the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force that produced the report Russia's Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do.

Associate dean and the Signal Companies' Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Former member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Coauthor of the Council Special Report, Global FDI Policy.

Expert on Japan and Asian international relations. Currently directing the project, China and India as Emerging Powers: Challenge or Opportunity for the United States and Japan?

Former senior associate at the Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS and founder of the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy. Editor of The U.S.-South Korea Alliance: Meeting New Security Challenges (forthcoming in 2012, Lynne Rienner).

Expert on emerging sources of regional instability and violent conflict. Currently focusing on U.S. preventive strategies to meet future challenges to international peace and security. Coauthor of the Council Special Reports Partners in Preventive Action: The United States and International Institutions and Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action.

Award-winning writer, and editor of the scholarly journal International Finance. His most recent book, Money, Markets, and Sovereignty, which earned him the 2010 Hayek Book Prize, analyzes the historical relationship between money and national sovereignty and its importance in understanding contemporary globalization.

Award-winning author of Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground, the critically acclaimed Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century, and Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know. Currently conducting research on the regional and global dimensions of Brazil's rise.

Author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran's Approach to the World (Oxford University Press, May 2009). Served as senior adviser to the special adviser for the Gulf and Southwest Asia at the U.S. Department of State.

Paul M. Hammaker associate professor of business administration at the Darden Business School, University of Virginia. Former senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Author of the Center for Geoeconomics reports How Dangerous Is U.S. Government Debt?, Two Myths About the U.S. Dollar, and Doubts About Capital Controls and an expert brief, "U.S. Treasuries Lose 'Risk-Free' Luster."

Former State Department and Defense Department senior official and National Security Council staff member. Associate professor of international law and national security law at Columbia Law School. Fellow in CFR's Cyberconflict and Cybersecurity Initiative.

Political scientist with expertise in national security issues. Currently researching best practices on "red teaming." His book Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World was released in September 2010.

Senior intelligence analyst on national security impacts of climate change, with experience in Middle East politics and counterterrorism. Current work examines Middle East regional dynamics and political and security impacts of climate and environmental stresses.

Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Juneau and Captain of the Port for Southeastern Alaska, responsible for maritime operations throughout the region. Previous tours include special assistant to the commandant, Admiral Thad Allen, and deputy staff judge advocate for the Coast Guard Southeastern Region of the United States and Caribbean.

Recently commanded the Fifth Marine Regiment. Has served in a variety of command positions, including 3d Bn, 1st Marines in Iraq, and Operation Al-Fajr. Previously served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, and has served in Iceland, Somalia, Panama, and throughout the Middle East.

Recently deployed for one year to Afghanistan as logistics officer for the NATO Training Mission. Commanded a logistics Company, Battalion, and Brigade in the Republic of Korea over three tours. Served as the military aide to the Secretary of the Army and served twice on the Joint staff.

Senior State Department officer with experience in South Asia, Latin America's Southern Cone, and general development economics. Current work examines Afghanistan/Pakistan regional dynamics and international assistance paradigms.

Assistant professor of government at Georgetown University. Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Author of Exporting the Bomb: Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Cornell University Press, 2010).

Career air mobility pilot (KC-135, KC-10, C-17, C-5) who most recently served as commander of the 100th Air Refueling Wing, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England. Also commanded the 7th Airlift Squadron, 385th Air Expeditionary Group, and the 406th Air Expeditionary Wing for Operations ODYSSEY DAWN and UNIFIED PROTECTOR. Former strategist to the commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command, HQ USAF Strategy Division Chief, and national defense fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for legislative affairs, international. Former adviser on East Asia and the Pacific on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Foreign correspondent with the Los Angeles Times who recently served as the paper's Baghdad bureau chief. Covered the 2011 popular uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya. Currently researching Iraq, the Arab Spring, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

Recently served as chief of staff, U.S. Naval Central Command/FIFTH Fleet in Bahrain. Held positions as commander, Electronic Attack Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet; as commanding officer, Electronic Attack Squadron ONE FOUR ZERO; and division chief at the National Counterterrorism Center. Career includes over 4000 flight hours, 925 carrier arrested landings, and over 100 combat missions.

Assistant professor of politics at the University of Virginia. Former research fellow at Stanford University and Harvard University and former nuclear proliferation specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Current research and writing focuses on nuclear weapons and international security.

Economist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001. Author of The Next Convergence, released in May 2011. Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development.

Career Foreign Service officer at the U.S. Department of State with experience working on Turkey, Iran, Tunisia, and Pakistan.