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Chris Kimball is the publisher and editor of *Cook’s Illustrated* and *Cook’s Country* as well as host of PBS’s *Cook’s Country*.

Dr. Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, and President of the Modern Language Association of America. She has published widely in the areas of human rights, women's studies, the study of autobiography, and feminist and postcolonial literature and theory. Her many books include* Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition* (2004) and *Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives*, 2nd ed. (2010).

Professor Tereasa Brainerd is the associate chair of the Boston University Astronomy Department and the director of the BU Institute for Astrophysical Research. She received her PhD in Astronomy from Ohio State University in 1992, where her research focused on the use of computer simulations to constrain the growth of dark matter structure in the universe. Professor Brainerd did postdoctoral work at Caltech from 1992 to 1994 and at Los Alamos National Lab from 1994 to 1995. She joined the astronomy department of Boston University in 1995. She is best known for her work on weak gravitational lensing, faint galaxy clustering, and the locations of satellite galaxies relative to their hosts. Her most recent work involves measuring the degree to which galaxies are intrinsically aligned with each other over large scales in the universe.

Professor Kelly coordinates the International and Comparative Law Program at Creighton University School of Law. He is the newly-elected president of the U.S. National Chapter of L'association International du Droit Pénal, a Paris-based society of international criminal law scholars, judges and attorneys founded in 1924 that enjoys consultative status with the United Nations. His research and teaching focuses on the fields of international and comparative law and Native American law. He is the author and co-author of four books and over thirty articles and book chapters in these areas, and his work is among the top 15% downloaded from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Professor Kelly has presented his views on U.N. Security Council reform to the Academic Council of the U.N. System in New York and has consulted with the Kurdish regional parliament in Erbil on drafting their new constitution under the federal law of Iraq. His Op-Ed columns have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, San Diego Union Tribune, Detroit News, Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Omaha World Herald; and he continues to serve as a Contributing Editor to the online legal newspaper JURIST. Professor Kelly wrote the grant that USAID awarded to the Law School calling for creation of a model Cuba/U.S. bilateral property claims settlement tribunal which can be offered to a transitional government in Havana after the Castro regime is gone. University Vice President Patrick Borchers led the team of six law and political science faculty tasked with building this model, which was reported out as a book on The Resolution of Outstanding Property Claims Between Cuba & the United States (Creighton University Press 2007). His other books include Ghosts of Halabja: Saddam Hussein & the Kurdish Genocide (Praeger 2008), with a foreword by Judge Ra'id Juhi al-Saedi, Nowhere to Hide: Defeat of the Sovereign Immunity Defense for Crimes of Genocide (Peter Lang 2005), with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Equal Justice in the Balance: America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat (University of Michigan Press 2004) co-authored with Raneta Lawson Mack, with a foreword by Michael Ratner. His most recent law review articles can be found in the international journals at UCLA, Case Western, Wisconsin and Cornell. Professor Kelly received his LL.M. in International & Comparative Law from Georgetown University and his J.D. and B.A. from Indiana University, where he served as an editor of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review and president of the Student Bar Association. He was an attorney with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and, before joining the Creighton faculty in 2001, taught at Michigan State University College of Law.

Susan Tiefenbrun has a J.D. from NYU, a Ph.D. in French from Columbia University (*summa cum laude*), an M.S. and a B.A. from Wisconsin University, (Phi Beta Kappa as a junior) in French, Russian, and Education. Prof. Tiefenbrun taught French at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. She is Director of the LL.M. Program in American Legal Studies for foreign lawyers and the LL.M. Program in International Trade and Investment for U.S. and foreign lawyers. She created and directs study abroad programs in France and China. For her efforts at fostering educational and cultural cooperation between France and the U.S., French President Jacques Chirac awarded her the French Legion of Honor medal in 2003. Earlier, she practiced international business law at Coudert Brothers. President of the Law and Humanities Institute West Coast Branch, she has written extensively on human trafficking as a form of contemporary slavery. Prof. Tiefenbrun speaks 10 foreign languages and can speak, read, write and understand Mandarin Chinese. Among her numerous written works are a book length study of Chinese, Russian and Eastern European joint venture laws and articles on international IP, international law, and human trafficking. She has edited three books, and recently authored *Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities* (Oxford Press, 2010). Books accepted for publication include: Free-Trade Zones in the World and in the United States (Elgar Press, forthcoming 2010), and Women and International Human Rights (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2011). Prof. Tiefenbrun teaches Business Associations, Business Planning, European Union Law, International Business Transactions, International IP Law, Securities Regulation, Women & International Human Rights Law, International Human Rights, and Introduction to International Law through Semiotics and the Humanities.

Maj. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap Jr. is Deputy Judge Advocate General, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. General Dunlap assists The Judge Advocate General in the professional oversight of more than 2,200 judge advocates, 350 civilian attorneys, 1,400 enlisted paralegals and 500 civilians assigned worldwide. In addition to overseeing an array of military justice, operational, international and civil law functions, General Dunlap provides legal advice to the Air Staff and commanders at all levels. General Dunlap was commissioned through the ROTC program at St. Joseph's University, Pa., in May 1972, and was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1975. The general has served in the United Kingdom and Korea and deployed for various operations in the Middle East and Africa, including short stints in support of operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He has led military delegations to Uruguay, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Colombia and Iraq. Prior to assuming his current position, General Dunlap served as the Staff Judge Advocate at Headquarters Air Combat Command. General Dunlap speaks widely throughout the defense and public policy communities on legal and national security issues. He also speaks at a variety of conferences and at numerous institutions of higher learning, to include Harvard, Yale, Duke, and Stanford, as well as National Defense University and the Air, Army and Navy War Colleges. His publications range from monographs, law review articles and book chapters to professional and general interest publications, op-eds and book reviews. Totaling more than 120 publications, General Dunlap's writings address a wide range of issues including the law, leadership, civil-military relations, airpower, cyberpower and counterinsurgency.

Scott Horton is a Contributing Editor of Harper's Magazine and writes No Comment for the *Harper's Magazine* web site. A New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international law, especially human rights law and the law of armed conflict, Horton lectures at Columbia Law School. A life-long human rights advocate, Horton served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union. He is a co-founder of the American University in Central Asia, and has been involved in some of the most significant foreign investment projects in the Central Eurasian region. Horton recently led a number of studies of abuse issues associated with the conduct of the war on terror for the New York City Bar Association, where he has chaired several committees, including, most recently, the Committee on International Law. He is also a member of the board of the National Institute of Military Justice, the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, the EurasiaGroup and the American Branch of the International Law Association.

Diana Wells, president of Ashoka, joined the organization in the 1980s after graduating from Brown University with a degree in South Asian Studies. As an undergraduate, her year-long study abroad in Varanasi, India led her to see the need for local solutions to solve global problems. This insight brought her to Ashoka and inspired her to create one of Ashoka's core programs, Fellowship Support Services, (now Fellowship) which not only supplied Ashoka’s social entrepreneurs with a wide array of information, resources and services, but at the same time connected them to one another and their ideas in a globally expansive context. Taking a leave to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology, she was named both a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson scholar. Her ethnographic research focusing on understanding how social change happens as a local articulation of a global social movement resulted in her dissertation: 'Between the Difference: The Emergence of a Cross Ethnic Women’s Movement in Trinidad and Tobago.' Having her PhD in hand, Diana returned to Ashoka to provide leadership for the worldwide process of sourcing and selecting leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows. In addition she was given strategic and operational responsibility for Ashoka’s geographic expansion and the significant increase of Fellow elections; to its current total of 1800. She has contributed to the field of social entrepreneurship by implementing a widely respected tool for "Measuring Effectiveness", which is one of the first standard tools to measure the impact of social entrepreneurship. She is on the Advisory Board for Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and on the Board of GuideStar International. Her Ph.D. is from New York University (2000), and her undergraduate degree from Brown University (1988). She has taught at Georgetown University on Anthropology and Development and has both authored and edited numerous journal and book publications including two compilations on social movements in the United States. Most recently, Diana was celebrated as one of 10 winners of the first annual Women to Watch award, by Running Start, a Washington, DC based organization that empowers young women to be political leaders. She lives in Arlington, VA with her husband Paul, her son Toby and her mother Elaine.

Professor Leila Nadya Sadat is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law and the Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. She will be the Alexis de Tocqueville Distinguished Fulbright Chair at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, in Paris, France in Spring 2011. She is also the Director of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, a three-year project to study the problem of crimes against humanity and draft a comprehensive convention addressing their punishment and prevention. She is an internationally recognized authority in international criminal law and human rights and a prolific scholar, publishing in leading journals in the United States and abroad. She is the author of The International Criminal Court and the Transformation of International Law: Justice for the New Millennium, published in 2002 and awarded the “Outstanding Book of the Year” by the International Association of Penal Law (American Branch). Her most recent articles on the Court include: A Rawlsian Approach to International Criminal Justice and the International Criminal Court; On the Shores of Lake Victoria: Africa and the International Criminal Court; Understanding the Complexities of International Criminal Tribunal Jurisdiction; and The Nuremberg Paradox. Trained in both the French and American legal systems, Sadat brings a cosmopolitan perspective to her work. She is particularly well known for her expertise on the International Criminal Court. She was a delegate to the U.N. Preparatory Committee and to the 1998 Diplomatic Conference in Rome which established the ICC, represented the government of Timor-Leste at the 8th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC, and served as a delegate for the International Law Association, American Branch at the 2010 ICC Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda. She currently serves Vice-President of the International Law Association (American Branch) and the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP), and is a member of the American Law Institute. She has also served as a member of the Executive Council, Executive Committee, Program Committee and Awards Committee for the American Society of International Law. She received her B.A. from Douglass College, her J.D. from Tulane Law School (summa cum laude) and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University School of Law (LLM, summa cum laude) and the University of Paris I – Sorbonne (diplôme d’études approfondies).

Paul R. Williams holds the Rebecca I. Grazier Professorship in Law and International Relations at American University. Professor Williams teaches at the School of International Service and the Washington College of Law, and also directs the joint JD/MA program in International Relations. Professor Williams is co-founder and Executive Director of the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), a non-profit group, which provides pro bono legal assistance to states and governments involved in peace negotiations, post-conflict constitutions drafting, and war crimes prosecutions. During the course of his legal practice, Professor Williams has assisted over a dozen states and governments in major international peace negotiations, and advised fifteen governments across Europe, Africa and Asia on issues of state recognition, self-determination, and state succession, drafting and implementation of post-conflict constitutions, and border and sea demarcation. Professor Williams is a leading scholar on peace negotiations and post-conflict constitutions and a sought-after international law and policy analyst. He has authored four books on topics of international human rights, international environmental law and international norms of justice, and over two dozen articles on a wide variety of public international law topics. Professor Williams is also a sought-after international law and policy analyst, and has been interviewed more than 250 times by major print and broadcast media. Previously, Professor Williams served in the Department of State's Office of the Legal Advisor for European and Canadian Affairs, as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge.

Jim Whitehurst was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat in December 2007. Before joining Red Hat, Whitehurst held various positions at Delta Air Lines, most recently as chief operating officer, responsible for operations, sales and customer service, network and revenue management, marketing and corporate strategy. Prior to joining Delta, Whitehurst was a partner at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and held various leadership roles in their Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Atlanta offices. A native of Columbus, Georgia, Whitehurst graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics. He also attended Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, holds a general course degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mitzi M. Montoya, is the executive dean of the College of Technology & Innovation at Arizona State University. Montoya is responsible for research administration and faculty development in the college. She also provides leadership on the development of innovative STEM-based educational programs in the college. Montoya teaches graduate courses in technological entrepreneurship, product innovation, management of technology, and marketing. She has delivered courses on these topics in England, Brazil, Italy, Egypt, Russia, Japan, among other countries. Montoya’s research interests lie at the intersection of technology, marketing and virtual team dynamics. Her research focuses on innovation processes and strategies and the role of technology as an enabler of collaborative, distributed team decision-making. She focuses particularly on the dynamics and performance of globally distributed work teams. Her publications have appeared in Management Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Decision Sciences, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, among others. She has been the recipient of competitive research grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Advanced Practices Council of the Society of Information Management, Product Development and Management Association, as well as foundation grants from several firms. Montoya’s industry experience includes work with companies such as Xerox, The Dow Chemical Company, IBM, Nortel, MeadWestvaco, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Esai, Raytheon, Martin Marietta Materials, Center for Creative Leadership, EDUCAUSE, ABB, John Deere, DaimlerChrysler, Allied-Signal, Cotton Incorporated, Koch/INVISTA, EQUATE (Kuwait), among others.