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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India.

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.

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).