Nikesh Arora

SVP and Chief Business Officer, Google

Lara Setrakian

Founder, Syria Deeply; Innovative Journalist

Nathan J. Brown

Professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of six books on Arab politics

George Yip

Leading Authority on Global Strategy, Marketing & Internationalization; Managing Global Customers; Governance and Strategy Focusing on Asia-Pacific

Sonia Nassery Cole

Filmmaker and Philanthropist

Irwin Kula

Irwin does challenge the status quo in the American spiritual landscape.

Rami George Khouri

Executive Editor of Lebanese Newspaper, The Daily Star

Thomas Carothers

The vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Glenn Loury

Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences & Professor of Economics at Brown University

Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Brother Ali

Hip Hop Artist

James Traub

Global Affairs & Politics Writer

Maz Jobrani

Comedian & Founding Member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Group

Bret Stephens

U.S. Foreign Policy Expert & Highly-Awarded Columnist for The New York Times

Azadeh Moaveni

Associate Professor, Writer, Journalist & Author

Woman. Life. Freedom. Iran's Feminist Movement

Shaukat Aziz

Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007)

Josef Joffe

Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution; Publisher/Editor of Die Zeit.

Regina Spektor

American Singer-Songwriter and Pianist

June Cohen

June Cohen is the Executive Producer of TED Media for the TED Conference.

Elliott Abrams

Expert in Foreign Policy; Special Representative for Venezuela at the Department of State

Far East Movement

Hip Hop & Electronic Music Group