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.

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.

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.

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.

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.