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Huddleston Associate Professor, University of New South Ambassador (ret.) to Mali & to Madagascar, Wales Faculty of Law, Sydney, Australia US Department of State, Santa Fe, NM Laurence Brahm Peter Rupert Lighte Founder, Himalayan Consensus Institute, Sinologist, Princeton, New Jersey China and Nepal Shadia Marhaban Neil Diamant Acehnese Journalist, Activist, & Peace Professor of Asian Law & Society, Dickinson Mediator, Aech, Indonesia College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ted Osius 20172017 Mark Fallon Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of International Security Consultant, Georgia Vietnam, U.S. Department of State, Vietnam Deliana Garcia Steven Vertovec Director of Migrant Clinicians Network, Austin, TX Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study Maurizio Geri of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany Strategic Analyst, NATO, Allied Command Transformation, Norfolk, Virginia Sofia Villarreal-Castaneda SPEAKERS & Larry Greenwood Founder & Editor of #EmergingUS and Founder of Define America, Los Angeles President, Japan Society of Northern California, Walnut Creek, California Frank Strasburger Former Episcopalian Chaplain, Princeton University, Health & Facilitator, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maryland Chris Borland Science PERFORMERS Former San Francisco 49ers Linebacker, Ellen Jorgensen Madison, Wisconson Co-Founder and Executive Director, Joel Gallant Genspace, Brooklyn, New York Medical Director of Specialty Services, Southwest CARE Center, Santa Fe Kathryn Medler Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Karuna Jagger University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY Executive Director, Breast Cancer Action, Jerry Michalski San Francisco Founder, REX, Portland, OR William Ryerson Sidney Perkowitz President, Population Media Center, South Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Burlington, Vermont Emory University, Atlanta Lloyd Sederer Roger Walton Chief Medical Officer, New York State Office Vice President of Global Alliances & Enterprise of Mental Health (OMH), New York City Accounts, WhereScape, London, U.K. Media William Marmon Florence Williams Managing Editor, European Institute, Washington, D.C. 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