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).

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.

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.

Former deputy editor of Newsweek International and director at EurasiaGroup.

Senior Coast Guard officer and helicopter pilot; most recently served as Chief of Staff, Eighth Coast Guard District with area of responsibility encompassing Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system. Extensive operational background in management of search and rescue, maritime law enforcement and security, maritime safety and environmental response missions.

PhD candidate in political science at Harvard University. Current research focuses on institutional responses to nuclear threats, including arms control agreements and the nonproliferation regime.

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.