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Mark K. Shriver, Vice President and Managing Director of U.S. Programs, leads Save the Children's programs and advocacy efforts for children living in impoverished rural communities across the United States. A champion for vulnerable children and families for more than 17 years, Shriver served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and was Maryland's first-ever Chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Youth and Families. He also founded and led the innovative Choice Program, a public/private partnership that serves at-risk youth through intensive, community-based counseling and job training services.

Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. She writes and teaches in the fields of human rights, comparative law, constitutional law, and legal theory. Professor Glendon taught at Boston College Law School from 1968 to 1986, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the Gregorian University in Rome. In 1988, Glendon won the Scribes Book Award given by the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects for *Abortion and Divorce in Western Law*, a comparative study that was featured in Bill Moyers' "World of Ideas" series. Another comparative study, *The Transformation of Family Law*, won the Legal Academy's highest award, the Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award in 1993. In 1991, she was elected President of the UNESCO sponsored International Association of Legal Science. In 1994, she was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the newly created Pontifical Academy of Social Science. In 1995, she headed the 22-member delegation of the Holy See to the Fourth U.N. Women's Conference in Beijing. Glendon's books, bringing a comparative approach to a variety of subjects, include *A Nation Under Lawyers* (1996), *Seedbeds of Virtue* (co-edited with David Blankenhorn) (1995), *Rights Talk* (1991), *The Transformation of Family Law* (1989), *Abortion and Divorce in Western Law*(1987), *The New Family and the New Property* (1981), and textbooks on comparative legal traditions. Her most recent book is *A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights*.

Jimmy Wales is the Internet entrepreneur who led the creation of the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia. Wales worked as a research director for Chicago Options Associates before becoming a co-founder (with Tim Shell) of the successful website Bomis.com in 1996. Wales used profits from Bomis.com to start an online encyclopedia, Nupedia, which led in 2001 to the creation of Wikipedia -- a free online encyclopedia which allowed anyone to create new entries or edit existing entries. As Wikipedia grew in prominence, so did Wales: *Time* magazine named him one of its 100 most influential people of 2006. Wales turned control of Wikipedia over to Wikimedia, a non-profit organization, in 2003. He remains head of a separate for-profit company, Wikia Inc., which hosts in-depth "wiki" web pages on various topics.

David W. Moore is a senior fellow of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. A former senior editor of the Gallup Poll, where he worked for thirteen years, Moore also served as professor of political science at UNH and is the founder and former director of the UNH Survey Center. The author of two previous books, How to Steal an Election and The Superpollsters, Moore has also written for the New York Times, The Nation, and the Boston Globe. He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.

Alasdair Roberts is the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School. Previously, he was a professor of public administration in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and an associate professor of public administration at Queen's University, Canada. Professor Roberts writes extensively on problems of governance, law and public policy. His most recent book, *The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government*, was published by New York University Press in 2008. Kirkus Reviews called it "a trenchant analysis of the last eight years of American political history." His previous book, *Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age*, received the 2006 Brownlow Book Award from the US National Academy of Public Administration, and three other academic book awards. Professor Roberts was elected as a fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration in 2007. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the School of Public Policy, University College London. At Suffolk Law, Professor Roberts teaches Administrative Law and Law and Public Policy. A Canadian, Professor Roberts received a JD from the University of Toronto in 1984, a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1994.

Laurence Henry Tribe is a liberal professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law scholars and Supreme Court practitioners in the United States. He is the author of *American Constitutional Law* (1978), the most frequently cited treatise in that field, and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court 34 times. Tribe attended Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California. He holds an A.B. in Mathematics, summa cum laude from Harvard College (1962), and a J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966). Tribe was a champion policy debater at Harvard, and later a college coach and high school summer institute teacher.

Douglas J. Feith (born July 16, 1953) served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for United States President George W. Bush from July 2001 until August 2005. His official responsibilities included the formulation of defense planning guidance and forces policy, United States Department of Defense (DoD) relations with foreign countries, and DoD's role in U.S. Government interagency policymaking. Upon his resignation, Feith joined the faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, as a professor and distinguished practitioner in National Security Policy for a two year stint. Feith is the director of the Center for National Security Strategies and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a public policy think-tank.