Nate Schenkkan is the director of research strategy at Freedom House.

Ambassador Nick Burns is a professor at the Kennedy School at Harvard University and the former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008.

Ben Smith is a media columnist for the New York Times and the former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.

Ambassador Dennis Ross served the U.S. government in positions pertaining to the Middle East for some 40 years and is now a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute.

Kirsten Fontenrose is the director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council and the former senior director for the Persian Gulf for the National Security Council staff.

Norman Roule is a 34-year veteran of the CIA, who served as the national intelligence manager for Iran for more than eight years.

Chinmayi Arun is a resident fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Aye Min Thant is a journalist and the features editor for Frontier Myanmar. They won a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 as part of the Reuters team covering the Rohingya crisis and its aftermath.

Mustafa Suleyman is a serial tech entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, an AI-first company redefining the relationship between humans and computers.

Nick Lewis is the founder and managing member of The Lewis Law Firm PLLC, where he focuses on high-stakes government inquiries and regulatory enforcement matters, congressional investigations, and intern...

Debak Das is an assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at St...

Amy C. Gaudion is an associate professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is the director of the Reuters Institute and professor of political communication at the University of Oxford.

Rosa Brooks is a law professor, journalist, author and commentator on foreign policy, U.S. politics and criminal justice. She is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University...

Emily Bell is the founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the author of three New York Times best sellers.

Wesley Morgan is a former military affairs reporter at Politico and the author of the book, "The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley."

Michael Collins is the acting head of the National Intelligence Council.