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, 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.

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.

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.

P-3 pilot and former commander of Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing TEN in Whidbey Island, WA. Commanded Patrol Squadron EIGHT and deployed to CENTCOM for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Served with Patrol Squadrons FORTY FIVE, THIRTY, and FIVE based in Jacksonville, Florida. Graduate of the United States Naval Academy and the National War College and a member of the Navy's Space Cadre.

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

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 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.

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.

Former U.S. Army military intelligence officer (2000-2012) and assistant professor of international relations in the deparmtent of social sciences at the United States Military Academy (2009-2011).

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.

Colonel in the U.S. Air Force that has commanded at the squadron and wing levels. Career F-15E weapons systems officer. Currently researching U.S. national security policy in Asia and the impact of U.S. rebalancing in the region.

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.

Associate professor and deputy director of Biodefense Graduate Program at George Mason University. Author of Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security. Currently writing a book on nuclear proliferation.