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.

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 is coming soon. He writes the blog "Africa in Transition" and edits the Nigeria Security Tracker.

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).

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.

Author of In Defense of Globalization, special adviser to the UN and the World Trade Organization, and professor of law and economics at Columbia University. Latest book, Termites in the Trading System, discusses the deleterious effects of preferential trade agreements.

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

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).

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 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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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).