Robin Wright is an American journalist, author and foreign affairs analyst who has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, TIME magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy, and many others.

Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and as a roving foreign correspondent in Latin America and Asia. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. She most recently covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post. Besides a long career in journalism, Ms. Wright has been a fellow at Yale, Duke, Stanford, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution's Saban Center, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California. (Read more at Wikipedia)

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Seymour Hersh is a United States Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, D.C. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.

His work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. His 2004 reports on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison gained much attention. (Read more at Wikipedia)

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Tamar Jacoby  is known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues.

A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books. From 1981 to 1987 she served as a deputy editor of the op-ed page of The New York Times, and from 1987 to 1989 as a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek. She has also been assistant to the editor at the New York Review of Books.

Her writing with regard to race relations and immigration has been published in numerous publications, including Commentary, Dissent, The Nation, The New Republic, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Book Review, among other journals of political thought and newspapers of national or regional scope. (Read more at Wikipedia)

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Zalmay Khalilzad  is President of Gryphon Partners, a consulting and investment firm focused on the Middle East and Central Asia.

From 2007 to 2009, Amb. Khalilzad served as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Prior to that, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (2005-2007) and U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan (2003 to 2005). He also served as U.S. Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan (2001 to 2003).

Amb. Khalilzad sits on the boards of the National Endowment for Democracy, America Abroad Media, the RAND Corporation's Middle East Studies Center, the American University of Iraq in Suleymania, and the American University of Afghanistan. He is also a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He maintains close ties with high-level leadership throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, and is regularly called upon to provide strategic advice to numerous heads of state. He appears frequently on U.S. and foreign media outlets to share his foreign policy expertise.

Amb. Khalilzad earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the American University of Beirut, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. (Read more at Wikipedia)

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David M. Walker  is founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative (CAI). In this capacity he leads CAI's efforts to promote fiscal responsibility and sustainability by engaging the public and assisting key policymakers on a non-partisan basis to help achieve solutions to America’s federal, state and local fiscal imbalances.

Prior to assuming his current position, he served as the first president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. From 1998 until 2008, Walker served as the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) for almost ten years. This was one of Walker's three presidential appointments each by different Presidents during his 15 years of total federal service. Walker also has over 20 years of private sector experience, including approximately 10 years as a partner and global managing director of Human Capital Services for Arthur Andersen LLP.

In addition to his leadership responsibilities at the Foundation, Walker serves on various boards and advisory groups, including as chairman of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee, as a member of The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's Advisory Committee and as a member of the Trilateral Commission. He has authored three books, with the latest one entitled Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility (2010), being a national bestseller. He is a frequent writer and commentator and is a subject of the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A. (Read more at Wikipedia)