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Dr. Jim Walsh is an expert in international security and a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Walsh's research and writings focus on international security, and in particular, topics involving weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. Dr. Walsh has testified before the United States Senate on the issue of nuclear terrorism and chaired the Harvard University International Working Group on Radiological Terrorism. Since 2001, Dr. Walsh has given some 700 media interviews, including more than 300 appearances on CNN. His comments and analysis have appeared in *the New York Times*, *the Washington Post*, *the Los Angeles Times*, *the Times of London*, *the Christian Science Monitor* and numerous other publications. He has appeared on the CBS *Evening News*, NPR, PBS, Fox, MSNBC, the Discovery Channel, MTV, Al Jazeera, and outlets in more than a dozen countries. His film credits include *Testament* (2004), *Meltdown *(2004), and *Fortress Australia* (2002). Before coming to MIT, Dr. Walsh was Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was also a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the country's three nuclear weapons labs. Previously, he was named a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar by the United States Institute for Peace and won the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship from the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Dr. Walsh received his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kim Marshall began his career in 1969 teaching sixth graders in a Boston middle school. He used "learning stations" with some success, wrote curriculum materials for his students, gave workshops for teachers in the Boston area, and began to write articles on classroom and school innovation. In 1987, Kim was made a principal. As leader of the Mather Elementary School for the next 15 years, Kim and his colleagues brought about significant improvements in student achievement, teacher effectiveness, and the quality of the curriculum. Kim now works for New Leaders for New Schools, a non-profit that recruits, trains, and supports urban principals. Kim coaches new principals in New York City, with a special focus on the effective implementation of interim assessments

Timothy Knowles is the Lewis-Sebring Director of the Urban Education Institute. The mission of the Urban Education Institute is to create new knowledge and educational models to address one of the nation's most significant and enduring questions: how do we produce reliably excellent schooling for children growing up in urban America? Prior to his current position, Knowles served as the Lewis-Sebring Executive Director and Senior Research Associate of the Center for Urban School Improvement at the University. He was deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public Schools from 1998 to 2002. At the Boston Public Schools, he has been responsible for school improvement and professional development, developing and sustaining community partnerships, and supervising principals and district staff. He was co-director of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a $30 million effort to improve literacy instruction, and has served in a number of other administrative positions, including founding director of a full-service, kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York City.

Iris Chang is one of the nation's leading young historians. Her many accolades include the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award, the Woman of the Year award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and two honorary doctorates (from the College of Wooster in Ohio, and California State University at Hayward). Chang has written for numerous publications, such as The New York Times, Newsweek and The Los Angeles Times, and has been featured by countless radio, television and print media, including Nightline, The Jim Lehrer News Hour, Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, C-Span's Booknotes, and the front cover of Reader's Digest. Chang also lectures frequently before business, university and other groups interested in human rights, World War II history, Cold War history, the Asian-American experience, Sino-American relations, and the future of American civil liberties. She worked briefly as a reporter for The Associated Press and The Chicago Tribune before completing a graduate degree in writing from the Johns Hopkins University and launching her career as a full-time author and lecturer.

Don Oberdorfer is a Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. As of September 2006, he was named Chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS. Oberdorfer was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of them for *The Washington Post*. His areas of expertise included the White House and Northeast Asia, and he spent 17 years as a diplomatic correspondent based in Tokyo. He has also reported for *The Charlotte Observer*, *The Saturday Evening Post*, and *Knight Newspapers*. His work has won numerous awards for journalistic excellence, including the National Press Club's Edwin M. Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence (1981, 1988) and Georgetown University's annual Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting (1982, 1993). He retired from journalism in 1993. From 1994-96, Oberdorfer served as President of Overseas Writers, a professional association of American and foreign journalists who focus on U.S. diplomacy in Washington. He is a member of the Asia Society and the Council on Foreign Relations, and currently is Program Chair of the Washington Institute on Foreign Affairs, an organization of retired senior U.S. diplomats, military officers, and journalists. Oberdorfer is a native of Atlanta, Ga. He graduated from Princeton University in 1952 and returned as a Visiting Professor in 1977, 1982 and 1986. In 1996, Princeton bestowed on him its Woodrow Wilson Award, given annually to an alumnus for exemplary service to the nation.

Charles K. Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. A specialist in the modern history of Korea and East Asia, Professor Armstrong has published several books on contemporary Korea, including *The Koreas* (Routledge, 2007), *The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950* (Cornell, 2003), *Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia* (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), and *Korean Society: Civil Society, Democrac*y, and *The State *(Routledge, second edition 2006), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. His current book projects include a study of North Korean foreign relations in the Cold War era and a history of modern East Asia. Professor Armstrong is a frequent commentator in the US and international media on Korean, East Asian, and Asian-American affairs. Professor Armstrong teaches courses on modern Korean history, the international history of East Asia, the Vietnam War, and US-East Asian relations, among others. He received his BA from Yale, MA from the London School of Economics, and PhD from the University of Chicago.

Dae Sook Suh received his undergraduate education at Texas Christian University (B.A. in Government), and studied Political Science at the graduate level at Indiana University (M.A. in Political Science). He completed his graduate training in Political Science at Columbia University (Ph.D. in Public Law and Government, 1964). Dae returned to Texas to teach political science at the University of Houston and University of Texas at Austin before coming to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He came to the University of Hawaii to establish and develop the programs for the Center for Korean Studies, and he served as its first Director from 1972 to 1995. The Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii appointed him to a chair professorship, Korea Foundation Professor of Policy Studies in 1994. Dae has also taught at Seoul National University and Yonsei University in Korea, and he was appointed George L. Paik Professor at Yonsei University. He was a Visiting Professor at Keio University in Japan and Honorary Professor at Yanbian University in China, and Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Han S. Park is University Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS) at the University of Georgia. Throughout his life, Han Park has endeavored to find new ways to use his talents and abilities to serve humankind. He has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to do so in several capacities. Born in China (Manchuria) to immigrant Korean parents, Dr. Park received his education in China, Korea, and the United States, with advanced degrees in Political Science from Seoul National University (B.A.), the American University (M.A.) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.).

Ilpyong Kim is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, Storrs and is a past president of the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. He is an active contributor in Asian Studies for the American Political Science Association and is the author of several books including The Politics of Chinese Communism: Kiansi Under the Soviets, Communist Politics in North Korea, and Development and Cultural Change: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.

Dr. Alexandre Y. Mansourov is an associate professor at at the Department of Regional Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. As a Northeast Asian expert he focuses primarily on the securities of the Korean Peninsula. Dr. Mansourov was a visiting fellow at Brookings Institution's Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies and was a faculty member of the Department of Regional Studies at the College of Security Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, B.A. in international relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in Russia, and advanced diploma in Korean studies from the Kim Il Sung National University in Pyongyang.