Career U.S. Army officer having served in a variety of command and staff positions in the continental United States and overseas, including combat tours in Iraq and most recently southern Afghanistan. Current research focus is on Security Force Assistance.

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, 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Reporter with the New York Times in Pakistan. Currently working on a book on Pakistan with a focus on the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.

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.