<p> Shelton Williams graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Government. He received a Ph.D. from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Studies at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and is the President of the Osgood Center for International Studies in Washington, D.C. Williams is a specialist in issues relating to nuclear proliferation. He has served as an advisor to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. During the Administration of Jimmy Carter, Williams served for two years in Washington, D.C. as a policy analyst and special consultant to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for international proliferation. During the Bill Clinton Administration, Williams served as a William C. Foster Visiting Scholar at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. ACDA posted him to the US Mission to the UN. Williams has been a supporter of the Model United Nations program for over twenty-five years, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Model United Nations organization.</p><p>Walter Russell Mead graduated from Yale University with his B.A. in English Literature. He is the James Clarke Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Professor of American Foreign Policy at Yale University. He is the Editor-at-large for The American Interest. He joined the Hudson Institute as a Distinguished Scholar in American Strategy and Statesmanship in 2014. Until 2010, he was the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council of Foreign Relations. He is a co-founder of the New America Foundation. </p><p>Arthur L. Herman graduated from the University of Minnesota with his B.A. and he graduated from Johns Hopkins University with his M.A. and Ph.D. in history. He is currently the Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He taught at Sewanee: The University of the South, Georgetown University, George Mason University, and the Cathloic University of America. His book, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, was a New York Times bestseller.</p><p>Michael Pillsbury graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in history, and he earned his Ph.D. in Columbia University. Pillsbury was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning and responsible for implementation of the program of covert aid known as the Reagan Doctrine during the Regan Administration. In 1975, Pillsbury published articles recommending the U.S. to establish military and intelligence ties with China. This would become the policy under the Regan and Carter Administrations. Pillsbury served on the staff of four US Senate Committees and drafted the Senate Labor Committee version of the legislation that enacted the US Institute of Peace in 1984. He also created the annual requirement for a DOD report on Chinese military power. In 1992, under President George H. W. Bush, Pillsbury was Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Pillsbury is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He also wrote a book called The Hundred-Year Marathon. He currently is the consultant at the Department of Defense. </p><p>Trita Parsi is the founder and current president of the National Iranian American Council. Parsi earned a Master's Degree in International Relations at Uppsala University and a second Master's Degree in Economics at Stockholm School of Economics. Later he earned his Ph.D. in International Relations at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Parsi worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, where he served in the Security Council, handling the affairs of Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan, and Western Sahara, and on the General Assembly's Third Committee, addressing human rights in Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq. He is the author of Treacherous Alliance and A Single Roll of the Dice. </p><p>Les Janka graduated from the University of Redlands, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in International Relations and Middle East Studies. Janka worked for the United States Information Agency from 1964 to 1968 and was Assistant Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University from 1968 to 1971, when he was appointed Special Assistant to Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council at the White House. Janka became Senior National Security Council Staff Member for Legislative and Public Affairs in 1974. He moved to the Pentagon in 1976 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and African Affairs. In 1984, after serving in the White House as Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs under President Ronald Reagan, he founded the Council for American- Saudi Dialogue, a foreign policy lobbying and public affairs consulting firm. Janka is a frequent writer and lecturer on the Washington political scene, specializing in international affairs and the formulation of U.S. foreign and defense policy. </p><p>Sally Shelton- Colby graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in French. She earned a M.A. in International Relations at the School of Advanced Internation Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981, under Jimmy Carter. In the Clinton administration, she was an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. She was also Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. She was Vice-President for the Bankers Trust in New York City. She also worked for Valero Energy Corporation. She has taught at Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, American University and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.[9] She currently teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. She has been involved with Helen Keller International, the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Atlantic Council of the U.S, the Center for International Environmental Law, the American Hospital of Paris, the Osgood Center for International Studies, the American Academy of Diplomacy. She is currently a board member of the Pan American Health and Education Foundation and serves as Director of the La Pietra Coalition at Vital Voices.</p><p>Shane Harris is an American journalist and author at Foreign Policy magazine. He specializes in coverage of America's intelligence agencies. Harris is currently an ASU Future of War Fellow at New American Foundation, and he wrote a new book, @War: The Rise of the Military- Internet Complex, about the impact of cyberspace as the American military's "fifth-domain" of war. Prior to joining Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Harris worked as a senior contributor for The Washingtonian and a staff correspondent at National Journal. Harris is known to be a strong opponent of the worldwide mass surveillance activities of the U.S. National Security Agency. In 2010, Harris received the 24th annual Gerald R. Ford Prize for "Distinguished Reporting on National Defense".</p>