H.E. Johann Schneider-Ammann
Federal Councillor Johann N. Schneider-Ammann was born on 18 February 1952 in Sumiswald (BE). He studied electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich, graduating in 1977. Mr Schneider-Ammann is married and has two grown-up children. In 1981 Mr Schneider-Ammann joined the Langenthal machine manufacturing company belonging to the family of his wife, Katharina. In 1990 he […]
Dalyn Woody
Dalyn Woody is a Senior at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey, which was the subject of a 60 Minutes featured story because of its unique culture that emphasizes student leadership as a cornerstone of their success. Dalyn holds the highest student leadership position at St. Benedict’s; Senior Group Leader. Dalyn climbed the […]
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 […]