Vivian Bercovici

Columnist for The Jerusalem Post & Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel

Said T. Jawad

Ambassador of Afghanistan to the Russian Federation

Ray Mabus

Former U.S. Secretary of the Navy; Former Governor of Mississippi

John J Sullivan

Former U.S. Ambassador & Deputy Secretary; Distinguished Fellow at the School of Foreign Service Georgetown University

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Orysia Lutsevych

Head of the Ukraine Forum & Research Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at Chatham House

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Shabnam Nasimi

Former Policy Advisor to Minister for Afghan Resettlement & Minister for Refugees, Social & Political Activist; Founder, Executive Director of the Conservative Friends of Afghanistan

Vijay Prashad

Historian, Journalist & Author; Director of Tricontinental Institute & Chief Editor of LeftWord Books

Safiya Ghori-Ahmad

South Asia Director at McLarty Associates; Former Political-Military Team Leader at the Office of the Special Representative to Afghanistan & Pakistan

John W. Nicholson Jr.

Commander of American & NATO Forces in Afghanistan 2016-2018

Joseph Krauss

Middle East Correspondent for Associated Press

Carter Malkasian

Historian, Author, Former Civilian Advisor in Iraq & Afghanistan

Clarissa Ward

Journalist & Chief International Correspondent for CNN

Elise Labott

Columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine; Founder of Twopoint.0 Media

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

Author & Journalist; Editor of Foreign Affairs; Peter G. Peterson Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations

Anthony Moffett

Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Elizabeth Shackelford

Former U.S. Diplomat & Author

Michael Auslin

Award-winning Author, Historian & Geopolitical Analyst

Jacob Heilbrunn

Editor of The National Interest, an International Affairs Magazine

William Burns

President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former US Foreign Service Career Ambassador

Yaniv Barzilai

Counterterrorism Policy Advisor for North Africa, U.S. Department of State

Rukmini Callimachi

Foreign Correspondent for The New York Times; Host of "The Caliphate" Podcast

Chris Murphy

Junior United States Senator for Connecticut

Banafsheh Keynoush

International Geopolitical Consultant and Author

Carrie Sheffield

Founder of Bold, A Multimedia News and Cultural Platform; Former Host of an Online TV Show for The Washington Times

Honourable Ms. Hanna Tetteh

Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & Regional Integration, Republic of Ghana

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

Professor and Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute

Emma Ashford

Resident Senior Fellow with the New American Engagement Institute

Ishaan Tharoor

Foreign Affairs Writer for The Washington Post

Matthew Lee

Diplomatic Writer for Associated Press

Federica Mogherini

High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy