Amb. Frank Wisner

Businessman, Former Amb. to India, Philippines, Egypt and Zambia

Jonathan Burnham

André Aciman

Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of CUNY

James Bessen

Executive Director, Technology & Policy Research, Boston University School of Law

Jared Bernstein

Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Charles Blow

Op-ed Columnist, New York Times, author of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones”

Jess Bravin

Supreme Court Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

Jonathan Burnham

Senior Vice President and Publisher, HarperCollins

Amb. Nicholas Burns

Prof. at Harvard Kennedy School, Former Amb. to NATO and Greece

Aaron Carroll

Vice Chair for Health Policy, Indiana University, creator of Healthcare Triage

Rebecca Carroll

Producer of special projects on race at WNYC

Joy Connolly

Provost and Senior Vice President at the Graduate Center, CUNY

Tyler Cowen

Professor of Economics at George Mason University, author

Stephanie Cutter

Political Consultant, Partner at Precision Strategies

Ronald Daniels

President of The Johns Hopkins University

John Donvan

Newscaster for ABC News, Host and Moderator for Intelligence2 Debates

Matthew Dowd

Entrepreneur, ABC News political analyst

Carroll Dunham

Contemporary American Painter

James Forman Jr.

Yale Professor of Law

Dario Gil

Vice President of Science and Solutions at IBM Research

Eddie Glaude Jr.

Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton

Ryan Goodman

Professor of Law at New York University School of Law

Adam Gopnik

Staff writer for The New Yorker

Nick Gourevitch

Partner and Managing Director, Global Strategy Group

Agnes Gund

President emerita of the Museum of Modern Art

Nathalie de Gunzburg

Chairwoman of the Dia Art Foundation board

Amb. Christopher Hill

Former US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Poland and Macedonia

Marguerite Hoffman

Art Collector, Philanthropist and Civic Volunteer

Jennifer Homans

Founder and Director of The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University

Amb. Robert Hormats

Former Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment

Radley Horton

Associate Research Professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Hussein Ibish

Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute

Samuel Issacharoff

Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law

Robert Kaiser

Former managing editor of The Washington Post

Henry Kissinger

Nobel Laureate, Secretary of State, National Security Adviser, Author

Andrew Kolodny

Co-Director, Opioid Policy Research, Heller School, Brandeis University

Steve Koonin

Director of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, National Academy of Sciences

Michael Kramer

Playwright, political columnist, author

Jay Kriegel

Senior Advisor for the Related Companies

Paul Krugman

Nobel Laureate, Op-Ed Columnist New York Times, Economist

Lawrence Kudlow

CNBC’s Senior Contributor

Corby Kummer

Senior editor of The Atlantic, restaurant critic, contributor to other magazines, author

Regina LaBelle

Former Chief of Staff, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Joshua Landis

Director, Center for Middle East Studies, Associate Professor University of Oklahoma

Amb. Mark Lippert

Former Ambassador to South Korea

Tom Loveless

Senior Fellow, Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institute

Amb. William Luers

Director of the Iran Project, formerly Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela.

Safwan Masri

Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University.

Jessica Mathews

Former President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

John Micklethwait

Editor-in-chief Bloomberg

Trevor Morrison

Dean, NYU School of Law

Senator Chris Murphy

Democrat from Connecticut

Richard Murray

Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech

David Nasaw

Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center, Past President Society of American Historians

David Osborne

Director of the Reinventing America's School Project at Progressive Policy Institute

Gregory Petsko

Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College

John Pfaff

Professor of Law at Fordham University

John Pomfret

Former Washington Post bureau chief in Beijing

Amanda Ripley

Investigative journalist and author

Chase Robinson

President, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Paul Romer

Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank

Michael Roth

President of Wesleyan University

Scott Rothkopf

Chief Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art

David Sanger

Chief Washington Correspondent, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize

Annabelle Selldorf

Founder of Selldorf Architects

Shohei Shigematsu

Partner and Director of New York office, OMA

Scott Small

Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University

Greg Speed

President of America Votes

Amb. Kathleen Stephens

Former Ambassador to South Korea

Valerie Strauss

Education Writer for The Washington Post

Alex Taylor

Senior Editor-at-large (ret.), Fortune magazine

Ann Temkin

Marie-Josée & Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting & Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art

Harold Varmus

Nobel Laureate, Director, National Cancer Institute, Scientist

Gernot Wagner

Executive Director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program

Sheena Wagstaff

Leonard A. Lauder Chairman for Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Darren Walker

President, Ford Foundation

Laura Walker

President and CEO, New York Public Radio

Adam Weinberg

Director of the Whitney Museum

Jane Whitney

Writer, TV correspondent, producer. Hosted The Jane Whitney Show

James Zirin

Host of “Conversations in the Digital Age,” prolific op-ed writer

Peter Zwack

Former U.S. Senior Defense Official and Attache to the Russian Federation