Jared Cohen

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

Cass Sunstein

Director of the Behavioral Economics & Public Policy Program at Harvard Law School, NYT Best-Selling Author, Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs

Too Much Information with Cass R. Sunstein, JD

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)

E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Syndicated Washington Post Columnist; Political Analyst for National Public Radio

William Easterly

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

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Political Scientist, Professor at New York University & Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution

Peter Orszag

Economist, Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking at Citigroup, Inc. & Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration

Laurie Garrett

One of America's Premier Authorities on Healthcare and Disease Prevention

Thomas Sowell

Nationally Syndicated Columnist & Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Arvind Panagariya

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

George A. Akerlof

Non-Resident Senior Fellow of Economic Studies at Brookings Institute

Julia Sweig

Julia E. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin American studies and director of Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jeffrey Rosen

President & CEO of the National Constitution Center & Contributing Editor of The Atlantic

Josef Joffe

Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution; Publisher/Editor of Die Zeit.

Cynthia Schneider

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands

Michael Spence

Nobel Prize Winning Economist & Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance; Holds Dual Professorship with New York University & Stanford University

Elliott Abrams

Expert in Foreign Policy; Special Representative for Venezuela at the Department of State

Javier Solana

Former Secretary General of NATO; High Representative for the Common Foreign & Security Policy of the EU Until 2009

Strobe Talbott

Former Deputy Secretary of State

Shelby Steele

Expert on Race Relations