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Afshin Molavi is the author of Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran (Norton, 2002), which was nominated for the Thomas Cook literary travel book of the year and described by Foreign Affairs as a brilliant tableau of todays Iran.

Anatol Lieven, a former senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, previously covered Central Europe for The Financial Times; Pakistan, Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union, and Russia for The Times (London), and India as a freelance journalist.

Ashraf Ghani was a key figure in rebuilding Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, and is a leading advocate for foreign investment (rather than foreign aid) as a tool for economic development and the eradication of poverty.

Daniel Levy is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation.

After 34 years of service in the United States Army, General Wesley Clark has taken on the roles of investment banker, author, MSNBC military analyst, businessman, presidential candidate and television host.

Ghaith al-Omari was a Senior Research Fellow with New America's American Strategy Program in 2008 and early 2009.

James P. Pinkerton worked in the White House under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Since leaving government in 1993, he has been a columnist for Newsday, a contributor to the Fox News Channel, and a regular on Fox’s Newswatch show.

Former Advisor to the US State Dept. & Director of Google Ideas

Jedediah Purdy is Assistant Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where he teaches ethics, and property, constitutional, and environmental law.

Majid Rafizadeh is an internationally acclaimed scholar, author, Middle East expert, political analyst, and human rights activist.

Maria Figueroa Kupcu specializes in the development of international advocacy campaigns, with particular expertise in stakeholder engagement in the global policymaking process.

Director of the Committee on Conscience, the genocide-prevention program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Nicholas Schmidle writes about the intersection of culture, religion and politics abroad.

Nicholas Thompson was most recently a senior editor at Legal Affairs Magazine and, before that, an editor at Washington Monthly.

Nir Rosen is a journalist who has written extensively on American policy toward Afghanistan and Iraq.

Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution

Rajan Menon is the Monroe J. Rathbone Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University.

Robert Wright is the author of The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Peter Smith, 1997) and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Pantheon, 2000).

Ron Kirk is the former United States Trade Representative, and served as President Obama's principal trade advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on trade issues.

Saskia Sassen is the world's go-to theorist on our complex and vibrant cities.

Ted Widmer is Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, one of America's premier centers for research into early American history.

Tim Golden is an investigative journalist who writes about legal policy in the fight against terrorism and other issues related to the treatment of terror suspects.