Sir Mark Malloch Brown
Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations; Former Chef de Cabinet, United Nations Secretary-General; Former Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Former Chair, United Nations Development Group Former Vice President for External Affairs, World Bank; Founder and Former Editor, The Economist Development Report

Peter Galbraith
Peter Galbraith is the author of The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. In the late 1980s, Galbraith helped expose Saddam Hussein's murderous "al-anfal" campaign against the Iraqi Kurds. Galbraith served as the first US Ambassador to Croatia and has held senior positions in the US Government and the United Nations. He was co-mediator and principal architect of the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the war in Croatia by providing for peaceful reintegration of Serb-held Eastern Slavonia into Croatia. From 1996 to 1998, Ambassador Galbraith served as de facto Chairman of the international commission charged with monitoring implementation of the Erdut Agreement. From January 2000 to August 2001, Ambassador Galbraith was Director for Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). He also served as Cabinet Member for Political Affairs and Timor Sea in the First Transitional Government of East Timor.

Sir Marrack Goulding
Former Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping and Former Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations; Author, Peacemonger; Former Ambassador to Angola, United Kingdom; Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford

Saad Eddin Ibrahim
a leading Egyptian pro-democracy Activist; Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and Professor of Political Sociology, American University of Cairo; Former, Secretary General, Egyptian Independent Commission for Electoral Review; Trustee, Arab Thought Forum; Founder and Core Member, Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East; Former Founder and Secretary-General, Arab Organization for Human Rights; Author, Bridging the Gap : Intellectuals and Decision Makers in the Arab World and The New Arab Social Order

Mohammed Ihsan

Mukesh Kapila
Former United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and the UN Development Program Resident Representative, Sudan; Former Special Adviser, Special Representative of the Secretary General in Afghanistan and High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations; Former Member, United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination System

Alberto Mora
Alberto Mora recently retired as the General Counsel for the U.S. Navy, the most senior civilian lawyer for the Navy and a rank equal to that of a four-star general. Mr. Mora was recognized with the 2006 JFK Profile in Courage Award for the moral and political courage he demonstrated in his effort to end U.S. military policy regarding the treatment of detainees held by the United States as part of the War on Terror.

Senator Sam Nunn
Senator Sam Nunn is co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He served as a United States Senator from Georgia for 24 years (1972-1996). During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Senator Nunn served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. In addition to his work with NTI, Senator Nunn has continued his service in the public policy arena as a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and as chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Michael Posner
Michael Posner is currently the President of Human Rights First. He has been at the forefront of the international human rights movement for nearly 30 years and, as the Executive Director of Human Rights First, he helped the organization earn a reputation for leadership in the areas of refugee protection, advancing a rights-based approach to national security, challenging crimes against humanity, and combating discrimination.

Samantha Power
Author, “A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy); The Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy and Founding and Former Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Co-Editor, Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact

Frances Townsend
Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, White House; Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism, The White House; Former Assistant Commandant for Intelligence, US Coast Guard; Former Counsel to the Attorney General for Intelligence Policy, US Department of Justice; Former Director, Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York