David Smick

Chairman & CEO, Johnson Smick International, Inc.

Scott Miller

Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business

Hon. Beverley McLachlin

17th Chief Justice of Canada, and the Deputy of the Governor General of Canada

Dmitri Trenin

Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center

Nadya Tolokonnikova

Human Rights Activist, Founding Member of Pussy Riot

Trita Parsi

President of the National Iranian American Council & Author of Several Award-Winning Books on US Foreign Policy

Caroline Elkins

Professor of African Studies at Harvard University & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Imperial Reckoning"

Afshin Molavi

Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins; Expert on Global Geopolitical Risk & Emerging Markets

Walter Russell Mead

Distinguished Fellow in Strategy & Statesmanship at Hudson Institute; James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs & Humanities at Bard College; Global View Columnist at the Wall Street Journal

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

Michael M. Cernea

Nonresident senior fellow in Foreign Policy

Mike Gonzalez

Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation

NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It

Sharan Burrow

International Labor Rights Advocate & First Female General Secretary of the ITUC

William J. Antholis

Managing director of The Brookings Institution

Frederick Kempe

President and Chief Executive Officer, The Atlantic Council of the United States, USA

Tom G. Palmer

Senior Fellow and Director of Cato University

Anne Castle

Assistant Secretary for Water and Science

Julia Bolz

Women's Rights Activist

Roger Cohen

Award Winning-Journalist & Author

Tamim Ansary

Afghan American Author

Leila Sadat

Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law, Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute and the Alexis de Tocqueville Distinguished Fulbright Chair, University of Cergy-Pontoise

Ian Vásquez

Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Stephen Rapp

Senior Visiting Fellow of Practice with the Blavatnik School's Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict's Program on International Peace and Securtiy; Former Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues

Hasan Elahi

When Hasan Elahi’s name was added (by mistake) to the US government’s watch list, he fought the assault on his privacy by turning his life inside-out for all the world to see.

Neil MacGregor

The writer and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series "A History of the World in 100 Objects" and the accompanying book.

Scott Sumner

Director of the Program on Monetary Policy for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Makau Mutua

Dean, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at Buffalo Law School

Vaughan Lowe

e Chichele Professor of Public International Law and a Fellow of All Souls College

Chester Brown

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney

Richard Jackson

Director and Senior Fellow, Global Aging Initiative

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Senior fellow and the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings