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PARTICIPANT LIST

AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS

ELLIOTT ABRAMS Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations; former Deputy National Security Advisor ALAN BATKIN Trustee, The Brookings Institution; Chairman, Converse Associates, Inc.; Former Vice Chairman, Eton Park Capital Management; Former Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates JEREMY BEN-AMI Founder and President, J-Street SAMUEL L. BERGER Chair, The Albright Stonebridge Group; former National Security Advisor Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Center BENJAMIN F. BRESLAUER Board Member, Washington Institute for Near East Policy STEPHEN BREYER Associate Justice, The Supreme Court of the United States CHARLES BRONFMAN Chairman, The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies; Member, Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution DANIEL L. BYMAN Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University PAUL CEJAS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PLC Investments, Inc.; Trustee and Member of the Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution ADAM CHESNOFF President and Chief Operating Officer, Saban Capital Group, Inc. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 67th U.S. Secretary of State ROBERT DANIN Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations TED DEUTCH United States Representative (FL-21) KAREN DEYOUNG Associate Editor and Senior National Security Correspondent, JACKSON DIEHL Deputy Editorial Page Editor, The Washington Post MICHAEL DORAN Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings ROBERT EINHORN Senior Fellow, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Initiative, The Brookings Institution KHALED ELGINDY Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings ALFRED B. ENGELBERG Trustee, The Engelberg Foundation; Trustee, The Brookings Institution ALFONSO FANJUL Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fanjul Corp. and Florida Crystals Corporation; Trustee and Member of the Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution DAVID FISHER Chairman Emeritus, Capital Group International; Member, Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution FRANKLIN FOER Editor, The New Republic FRED GLUCKMAN Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Saban Capital Group, Inc. JEFFREY GOLDBERG Columnist, Bloomberg View and National Correspondent, PHILIP GORDON Special Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region, National Security Staff, The White House BRIAN L. GREENSPUN Editor and Publisher, Greenspun Media Group; Trustee, The Brookings Institution JANE HARMAN Director, President, and CEO, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars JACOB HEILBRUNN Editor, The National Interest DAVID IGNATIUS Associate Editor and Foreign-Affairs Columnist, The Washington Post MARTIN INDYK Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, United States Department of State PETER JOSEPH Chairman, Policy Forum DAVID KAMENETSKY Vice President, Mars Incorporated; Member, Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution YNON KREIZ Executive Chairman, Maker Studios; Chairman, Cortica NED LAMONT Founder and Chairman of Lamont Digital Systems, Inc; Member, Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN Former U.S. Senator (CT); Senior Counsel, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP NITA LOWEY United States Representative (NY-17) DAVID MAKOVSKY Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, State Department Director, Middle East and North Africa Program, The International Crisis Group SUZANNE MALONEY Senior Fellow, The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings WILLIAM MCCANTS Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; Director, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World SUZANNE NORA JOHNSON Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and Member of the Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution; Former Vice Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. MICHAEL O’HANLON Senior Fellow for the 21st Century Defense Initiative and Director of Research, Foreign Policy Program at The Brookings Institution ANNE W. PATTERSON Former United States Ambassador to Egypt CHARLES PEREZ Chairman, Charles A LLC THEODORE PICCONE Acting Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Program, The Brookings Institution KENNETH M. POLLACK Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings BRUCE RIEDEL Director, The Brookings Intelligence Project and Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Anchor and Executive Editor, Charlie Rose and Charlie Rose: The Week; Co-Anchor, CBS This Morning DENNIS ROSS Counselor, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region, National Security Staff, The White House HAIM SABAN Chairman, The Saban Forum; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Saban Capital Group; Trustee, The Brookings Institution CHERYL SABAN Founder, Self Worth Foundation; U.S. Representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations NATAN B. SACHS Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings DANIEL SHAPIRO United States Ambassador to Israel WILLIAM SHUTZER Senior Managing Director, Advisory Business, Evercore Partners; Member, Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution ROBERT SIEGEL Senior Host of All Things Considered, National Public Radio SETH “YOSSI” SIEGEL Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of The Beanstalk Group; Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Sixpoint Partners; National Board Member, AIPAC ARTHUR STARK President, Bed Bath & Beyond; Chairman of the Board Emeritus, Friends of the IDF JEFFREY M. STERN Managing Partner, Forum Capital Partners SUSAN K. STERN Chair, State Commission on National and Community Service; Chair, President’s Advisory on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships STROBE TALBOTT President, The Brookings Institution SHIBLEY TELHAMI Nonresident Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland GEORGE TENET Chairman, Allen & Company LLC; Former Director of Central Intelligence EDDIE TRUMP Chairman, The Trump Group TONI VERSTANDIG Executive Director of Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute HENRY WAXMAN United States Representative (CA-33) FRANKLIN WEIL Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Private Investment, Abacus & Associates ROBERT WEXLER President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace LEON WIESELTIER Literary Editor, The New Republic TAMARA COFMAN WITTES Convener, The Saban Forum; Senior Fellow and Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings EZRA K. ZILKHA President, Zilkha & Sons, Inc.; Trustee, The Brookings Institution MORTIMER B. ZUCKERMAN Co-Founder and Chairman, Boston Properties Inc.; Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report; Publisher, The New York Daily News; Member, Foreign Policy Leadership Council, The Brookings Institution

ISRAELI PARTICIPANTS

GABI ASHKENAZI Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Rashi Foundation; Former Chief of Staff of the DAN ARBELL Non-Resident Fellow, The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; Scholar in Residence, American University RAZI BARCAY Radio Anchor, NAHUM BARNEA Political Columnist, Yediot Aharonot RAMI BEN BARAK Former Deputy Director of the Mossad TAL BECKER Deputy Legal Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs BOAZ BISMUTH Foreign Affairs Editor, Israel Hayom BEN CASPIT Senior Columnist, Sof Hashavua MEIR DAGAN Former Director of the Mossad ILANA DAYAN Anchor for Uvda, Channel 2 News JACOB DAYAN Executive Chairman, IVIC Ltd.; Former Israeli Consul General to the United States RON DERMER Israeli Ambassador to the United States SHLOMO DOVRAT Co-Founder, Viola Group; General Partner and Co-Founder, Carmel Ventures Minister of Home Front Defense; Minister of Communications NADAV EYAL Chief Editor, Channel 10 International News Desk; Columnist, Ma’ariv. AVI GIL Senior Strategic Advisor, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace DAN GILLERMAN Senior Advisor, the Blackstone Group; Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Chairman, House Committee of the Israeli AYALA HASSON Diplomatic Correspondent and Analyst, Channel 1; Anchor, Yoman; Anchor, Reshet Bet YOAZ HENDEL Chairman, the Institute for Zionist Strategies; Columnist, Yediot Aharonot ISAAC HERZOG Leader of the Opposition; Head of the Labor Party FORSAN HUSSEIN Chief Executive Officer, the Jerusalem International YMCA FAINA KIRSHENBAUM Member of Knesset; Deputy Minister of the Interior; CEO of Israel Beytenu Party MORDECHAI KREMNITZER Vice President of Research, Israel Institute; Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law Minister of Foreign Affairs; Head of Israel Beytenu Party TZIPI LIVNI Minister of Justice; Chief Negotiator in the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations DAN MERIDOR Former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence Former Prime Minister of the State of Israel MICHAEL B. OREN Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States; Chair in International Diplomacy, Lauder School of International Diplomacy, IDC Herzliya Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations ITAMAR RABINOVICH Distinguished Nonresident Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; President Emeritus, University; Distinguished Global Professor, NYU ARIEH SABAN Director, Partner Communications Company, Inc. Member of the Israeli Knesset, Jewish Home Party ELON SHALEV Senior Advisor, Saban Capital Group SILVAN SHALOM Minister of National Infrastructure Energy and Water Resources; Minister of Regional Corporation and Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee MEIR SHAMIR CEO and Principal Stockholder, Mivtach Shamir Holdings Ltd. ARI SHAVIT Senior Correspondent, Ha’aretz OFER SHELAH Member of the Israeli Knesset, Yesh Atid Party YUVAL STEINITZ Israeli Minister of Intelligence OFRA STRAUSS Chairperson, The Strauss Group MANUEL TRAJTENBERG Chairman, Budgeting & Planning Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel YOSEF VARDI Principal, International Technologies Ventures. DANA WEISS Anchor and Chief Correspondent, Channel 2's Saturday Night News AMOS YADLIN Director, Institute for National Security Studies; Former Chief of Intelligence for the IDF MICHAEL ZELLERMAYER Founder & Senior Partner of Zellermayer, Pelossof, Rosovsky, Tsafrir, Toledano & Co.

INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS

SAEB EREKAT Chief Negotiator, Palestine Liberation Organization JON HANSSEN BAUER Special Representative for the Middle East, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs