John Brennan is a former American intelligence officer who served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017.

Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Gover...

Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and co-founder of Rappler, an online news site based in Manila.

Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud (Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Journalism, as well as th...

David Folkenflik is the media correspondent for National Public Radio. He was also one of the hosts of NPR & WBUR's On Point. His work primarily appears on the NPR news programs Morning Edition and All T...

James Andrew Himes is a businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district since 2009.

Alexandra Chinchilla is an assistant professor of international affairs at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service.

Sheena Greitens is an associate professor at UT Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Casey Newton is the former Silicon Valley editor for The Verge who recently went independent to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer.

Adam Tooze is a professor at Columbia University and an economic historian.

Matthew C. Klein is the founder and publisher of The Overshoot, a premium subscription research service focused on the global economy, financial markets, and public policy. He was previously the Economic...

Maia Hamin is an associate director with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). She works on the Initiative’s systems security portfolio, inc...

Rudy Mehrbani is a senior advisor at Democracy Fund Voice, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, and the former assistant to the president and director of presidential personnel and former a...

Ambassador Antonio Garza is a lawyer, distinguished public servant, and cross-border specialist. He served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2002 to 2009.

Ambassador Boris Ruge is Vice-Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, serving since August 2019. He previously served as Director Middle East/North Africa at the Foreign Office in Berlin, as German A...

Herbert Raymond McMaster is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 25th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018.

Ambassador Daniel Fried, the former U.S. ambassador to Poland and the Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Cristina M. Rodríguez is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her fields of research and teaching include constitutional law and theory, immigration law and policy, administrat...

Adam Cox is the Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law at NYU and a leading expert on immigration law, voting rights, and constitutional law.