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

Yaniv Barzilai

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

Elizabeth Shackelford

Former U.S. Diplomat & Author

William Burns

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

Marie Harf

Co-Host on Fox News' "Benson and Harf"

Capricia Marshall

Former Chief of Protocol of the United States (2009 - 2013)

Esther Brimmer

Executive Director & CEO of NAFSA; Former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations

Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

Diplomat & Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

PJ Crowley

Professor at the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication at George Washington University

Jared Cohen

President, Jigsaw (previously Google Ideas) & Chief Advisor to Alphabet Executive Chairman (former Google CEO) Eric Schmidt

Nicholas Burns

Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy & International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Shibley Telhami

Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland

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

Wadah Khanfar

President & Co-founder of Al Sharq Forum & Chairman of Common Action Forum, Former Director-General of the Al Jazeera Network

Wadah Khanfar | This House Would Pressurise Israel to Exchange

Chrystia Freeland

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada

Daniel Ayalon

Israeli Diplomat & Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States

Orysia Lutsevych

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

Civil society has a vital role in Ukraine’s recovery

Paul D. Miller

Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

Ahmed Shaheed

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion & Belief

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

Vivian Bercovici

Columnist for The Jerusalem Post & Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel

Michael Auslin

Award-winning Author, Historian & Geopolitical Analyst

Jacob Heilbrunn

Editor of The National Interest, an International Affairs Magazine