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 twelve books on U.S. foreign policy, including Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order.

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.

Former foreign editor of the New York Times, and editor-in-chief of the New York Times website from 1996 until 2002.

Award-winning coauthor of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy and former director for global issues and multilateral affairs at the National Security Council. Author of the blog The Water's Edge.

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.

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.

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 Why Growth Matters, and professor of law, economics, and international affairs at Columbia University. His previous 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 China, Russia, the Middle East, South Asia, and geoeconomics. Editor of Iran: The Nuclear Challenge and coauthor of Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World.

Expert on international law and regulatory policy, noncommunicable diseases and tobacco control, technological innovation and delivery, international trade and investment, and intellectual property. 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, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today, and, most recently, the New York Times best-seller Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present.

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. The second edition was published in June 2013. He writes the blog "Africa in Transition" and edits the Nigeria Security Tracker.

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.

CFR senior fellow and director of the Civil Society, Markets and Democracy program. Author and co-author of numerous books, including Pathways to Freedom: Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions (CFR, 2013) and Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East (Random House, 2010), Her writings have also appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Washington Post and Financial Times.

Author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (Oxford University Press, 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.

Heidi Crebo-Rediker served as the State Department's first chief economist. Appointed to this assistant secretary–level position by Secretary Clinton as a centerpiece of her "Economic Statecraft" initiative, she provided advice and analysis to the secretary on foreign policy issues having a significant economic or financial component.

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.

Thomas E. Donilon most recently served as national security adviser to President Barack Obama. In that capacity Mr. Donilon oversaw the National Security Council staff, chaired the cabinet level National Security Principals Committee, provided the president's daily national security briefing, and was responsible for the coordination and integration of the administration's foreign policy, intelligence, and military efforts.

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

Award-winning author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future. Currently writing two books: one on China's rise and another with Michael Levi on China's global quest for resources.

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

Economist and former governor of the Bank of Israel, former first deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund, former chief economist at the World Bank. Currently working on monetary policy and financial systems, U.S. and global.

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.

Former secretary of the treasury; former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Founding editor of the journal Global Health Governance. Currently researching the roles of emerging powers and non-state actors in shaping global health governance. Author of Governing Health in Contemporary China, a new book that looks at the health system transition in post-Mao China.

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

Macroeconomist with substantial experience in public policy and markets. Current focus is on G-7 monetary and fiscal policies, financial markets, and crisis resolution.

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 nuclear arms control policies of the United States and the other nuclear weapons states.

Former U.S. ambassador to the OECD, writing about digital policy and consulting on public policy.

Author of No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (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, the recently published book Democracy in Retreat, 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 and former civil society organizer. Assistant professor at The New School. Currently directing a roundtable series on opportunity and exclusion in the global economy. Coauthor of Pathways to Freedom: Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions and the Social and 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.

Director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change and the CFR project on energy and national security. Currently writing books on the future of American energy and on China's natural resource quest. Author of studies and books on climate diplomacy, energy innovation, nuclear terrorism and proliferation, arms control, and science and technology in the Islamic world.

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.

Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Author of Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead (Oxford University Press, 2013), which analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last three decades and why these changes matter for the United States.

Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice 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 Corporate and Investment 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.

Award-winning journalist and national security writer. Former deputy editorial page editor for the New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Directing a roundtable series focused on national security in an age of austerity.

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 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. Co-editor of North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society (Rowman and Littlefield, October 2012), and editor of Global Korea: South Korea's Contributions to International Security (Council on Foreign Relations, October 2012) and The U.S.-South Korea Alliance: Meeting New Security Challenges (Lynne Rienner Publishers, March 2012).

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, The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, was called "a triumph of economic and diplomatic history" by the Financial Times.

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.

Jere Van Dyk is a consultant to CBS News on South Asia and terrorism, and has appeared frequently on radio and television since 2001. He has given talks at the Carnegie Council, New America Foundation, World Affairs Council, Google, and Microsoft, as well as public schools, universities, and nonprofit organizations.

Former advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on global women's issues. Currently an adjunct professor of women's human rights at Georgetown University. Research focuses on the relationship between women's advancement and prosperity, stability, and security.

Former State Department and Defense Department senior official and National Security Council staff member. 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 drone strikes and their impact on U.S. foreign policy. His book Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World was released in September 2010.

Charles E. Berger is currently assigned as the assistant special agent–in-charge at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the New York field office. He is responsible for supervising squads of special agents tasked with collecting human intelligence in support of FBI and intelligence community priorities.

Scott D. Campbell, U.S. Marine Corps, most recently commanded the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit composed of twenty-four hundred marines and sailors, and included thirty-one fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft, which recently completed an eight-month deployment to the Centcom area of operations.

Charles L. Cashin III, U. S. Coast Guard, most recently commanded Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) home-ported in Alameda, California, where he was responsible for the commissioning and employment of the service's newest national security cutter. Operating across the globe, he has served with the U.S. Department of Defense, the interagency, and numerous international partners performing all Coast Guard missions with a focus toward counterterrorism, law enforcement, homeland security, national defense, and search and rescue.

Fred Kaplan is the "War Stories" columnist for Slate and the author of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (Simon & Schuster, 2013), 1959: The Year Everything Changed (Wiley, 2009), Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power (Wiley, 2008), and The Wizards of Armageddon (Simon & Schuster, 1983; republished by Stanford University Press, 1991).

Mervyn King was governor of the Bank of England and chairman of the monetary policy and financial policy committees from 2003 to 2013, helping to shape UK monetary policy during the global economic recession. He was previously deputy governor from 1998 to 2003, and served as chief economist and executive director from 1991 to 1998. King was also a nonexecutive director of the bank from 1990 to 1991.

King received a master's degree in economics from King's College, Cambridge University and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. He has taught at Cambridge, Birmingham, and Harvard Universities, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics. King is a fellow of the British Academy and an honorary fellow of King's and St. John's Colleges.

Sarah E. Kreps is an assistant professor in the department of government at Cornell University and an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School. She is the author of Coalitions of Convenience: United States Military Interventions after the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Patrick J. Mahaney Jr., U.S. Army, most recently commanded the asymmetric warfare group based at Fort Meade, Maryland, where he was responsible for global support in countering asymmetric and irregular threats. He also commanded a special forces battalion and a special operations task force in operation enduring freedom.

David Palkki is the acting director of the National Defense University's Conflict Records Research Center. He also is coeditor of The Saddam Tapes: The Inner Workings of a Tyrant's Regime, 1978-2001, and has published a variety of journal articles and book chapters.

William J. Parker III is a U.S. Navy surface warfare officer who most recently commanded Destroyer Squadron Two Three. He has served nearly two years on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as the senior military adviser to the secretary of state for Iraq affairs, as the senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, and in various joint and navy staff strategic planning positions.

Alexandra Perina served for seven years in the U.S. Department of State as an attorney, most recently as the assistant legal adviser for political military affairs. Her areas of expertise include uses of force and war powers, the laws of war, cyber, and counterterrorism and intelligence matters.

Mira Rapp-Hooper is a PhD candidate in political science at Columbia University. She has previously worked on extended deterrence and conflict escalation issues for the RAND Corporation. Her expertise includes nuclear weapons policy and strategy, alliance politics, security issues in East Asia, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Robert S. Spalding III, U.S. Air Force, was most recently vice commander of the 509th Bomb Wing based at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, where he was responsible for preparing and maintaining United States' only B-2 wing. He also commanded the 509th Operations Group where he launched B-2s to protect civilians during Operation Odyssey Dawn.

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.

Curtis Valentine is the former executive director of Maryland Campaign for Achievement Now (MarylandCAN) and currently an at-large member of the Prince George's County, Maryland Board of Education.