Charles Ebinger

Director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution

Richard C. Bush

Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of its Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS)

Elaine Kamarck

Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Harvard Kennedy School

Ralph Langner

Founder, Director, and Lead OT-BASE Architect at Langner

Cynthia Schneider

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands

Akbar Ahmed

Islamic Studies at American University, and a nonresident senior fellow

Peter W. Singer

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

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Vali Nasr

Professor of International Affairs & Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Religion and Global Politics)

Shibley Telhami

Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland

The Peace Puzzle: America's Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989–2011

Stephen C. Smith

Global Economist

Strobe Talbott

Former Deputy Secretary of State

William Easterly

Professor of Economics at New York University; Co-Director, Development Research Institute

E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Syndicated Washington Post Columnist; Political Analyst for National Public Radio

Russell Wheeler

Visiting fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program and president of the Governance Institute

Stuart S. Taylor, Jr.

Author and freelance journalist focusing on legal and policy issues

Michael P. McDonald

Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Public and International Affairs Department at George Mason University

Thomas E. Mann

Senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution

Benjamin Wittes

Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution

Noah Shachtman

Nonresident fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy

Kislaya Prasad

Research professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business

Lewis M. Milford

Founder and President of Clean Energy Group (CEG)

Maysa Jalbout

Senior adviser to leaders, governments and philanthropic organizations on social policy and programming

Eugene J. Huang

Visiting scholar in the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings

R. Kent Weaver

Senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution and Professor

Scott Winship

Former Fellow at the Manhattan Institue & the Brookings Institution

Jonathan Rauch

Contributing Editor for the National Journal & Author

Caroline Moser

Anthropologist and social policy specialist with more than 25 years of experience in social development

Diana Mutz

Nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Associate professor in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the associate director

Scott W. Allard

Associate professor in the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration with expertise in the areas of social welfare policy and poverty