Jackson A. Nickerson

Nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution

Strobe Talbott

Former Deputy Secretary of State

Kavita Patel

Managing Director of Clinical Transformation at the Center for Health Policy at Brookings

Joseph Riley

Former Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina

Arvind Panagariya

Professor of Economics & Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University

Ernesto Talvi

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David Braddock, Ph.D.

Senior Associate Vice President of the University of Colorado; Executive Director of the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities

Tala Dowlatshahi

Award-Winning Global Human Rights, Climate Change & Public Health Policy Expert; Former Senior Advisor for Stakeholder Engagement at the United Nations

Admiral Dennis C. Blair

Knott Professor of the Practice at the University of North Carolina; Former Director of National Intelligence

Lee Ohanian

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Bill Purcell

Fouding Partner of Farmer Purcell White & Lassiter; Former Mayor of Nashville; Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Vanderbilt University

Paola Ramos

Host & Correspondent for VICE News; Contributor to Telemundo News & MSNBC; Hauser Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

Jonathan Turley

Attorney, Commentator & Professor at George Washington University Law School

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Dr. Victor Pineda

President of World ENABLED, Chancellor’s Research Fellow,& a City and Regional Planning Professor at UC Berkley

Angela Stent

Russia & Foreign Policy Expert; Professor at Georgetown University; Author of "Putin's World"

Peter W. Singer

Technology & Security Futurist; New York Times Best-Selling Author

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Karen Hughes

Global Vice Chair of Public Relations at Burson-Marsteller; Communications Strategist & Former Counselor to President George W. Bush 2001-2002

Stacey Abrams

Political Leader, Voting Rights Activist & New York Times Bestselling Author

Jennifer Bradley

Founding Director of the Center for Urban Innovation at the Aspen Institute