Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security. He is the coauthor of New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, published by ReganArts in 2015, with a revised and expanded edition released in April 2016. Weiss is currently a Senior Editor at The […]
Samantha Vinograd
Samantha leads Brunswick’s U.S. geopolitical practice. She has served under three bipartisan Administrations and in several key private sector roles. Most recently, she served as the Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, Threat Prevention, and Law Enforcement Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where she developed, implemented and evaluated policies to identify and mitigate risks […]
Irina Bokova
Irina Bokova, born on 12 July 1952 in Sofia (Bulgaria), has been two terms the Director-General of UNESCO from 2009 to 2017. Having graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Irina Bokova was a Fellow at the University of Maryland, Washington, and followed an executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government […]
Tejas Bhatt
Tejas Bhatt is the Director for the Global Food Traceability Center (GFTC) at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). He directs IFT’s science and policy initiatives related to food traceability. He is responsible for grants and contracts work at IFT to conduct research and development in food science in partnership with governments, industry and academia. […]
Georgia Arnold
Georgia Arnold is Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility at Viacom International Media Networks and is responsible for developing social initiatives for the company’s portfolio of over two hundred TV channels and websites. Ms Arnold has initiated unprecedented partnerships and campaigns for MTV on HIV and AIDS awareness and for Nickelodeon on children’s rights. Ms. […]
Hassan Hassan
Hassan Hassan is a resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, a think tank in Washington, DC. He is also co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, a New York Times bestseller chosen as one of the Times of London’s Best Books of 2015 and the Wall Street Journal’s top ten books on terrorism. […]
Mia Bloom, Ph.D.
Mia Bloom is a Professor of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Bloom conducts ethnographic field research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia on violent extremism and speaks eight languages. She has authored several books and articles on terrorism and radicalization including Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (2005), […]
George Soros
George Soros is the founder and chairman of Open Society—a network of foundations, partners, and projects in more than 100 countries. His commitment to the idea of open society—where rights are respected, government is accountable, and no one has the monopoly on the truth—makes the Open Society Foundations unlike any other private philanthropic effort in […]
Amb. Carlos Vecchio
In February 2019, Acting President Juan Guaidó appointed lawyer Carlos Vecchio as Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, with the endorsement of the National Assembly. During the ceremony of acceptance of diplomatic credentials, held on April 8, 2019, President Donald Trump said that Carlos Vecchio was “the first Venezuelan Ambassador to […]
Kelly Wallace
Kelly Wallace is a digital correspondent and editor-at-large for CNN, focusing on family, career and work/life balance. An award-winning digital journalist and television correspondent, Wallace writes in-depth articles and socially sourced stories and does original web videos for CNN Digital’s Health, Wellness and Parenting section. In addition, she appears regularly on both CNN and HLN […]
Dr. Andreas Ullrich
Dr. Ullrich graduated in Medicine from the University of Munich, Germany, specializing in internal medicine, and then graduated in Public Health at the Bielefeld School of Public Health, Germany. He joined WHO in 2001, working on its cancer control programme. He has since developed an organisation-wide cancer prevention and control network which is engaging all […]