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Dr. Peter Kramer is a professor of clinical psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University.

David J. R. Frakt is an Associate Professor of Law at the Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law and a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps Reserve. He earned his B.A., *summa cum laude*, from the University of California, Irvine and his J.D., *cum laude*, from Harvard Law School. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Monroe G. McKay, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. From 1995 to 2005, he served on active duty with the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) before transitioning to the Air Force Reserve and becoming a law professor. He was Director of the Criminal Law Practice Center at Western State University College of Law from May 2005 to July 2010. He has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. From April 2008 to August 2009, Professor Frakt took a military leave of absence from teaching to serve as lead defense counsel with the Office of Military Commissions, representing two detainees at Guantanamo facing war crimes and terrorism charges before the U.S. military commissions. He was the first defense counsel to win the pretrial dismissal of all charges against his client, Mohammed Jawad, a juvenile from Afghanistan, and also won Mohammed's release through a habeas corpus petition in federal court. He was the sole defense counsel in one of the only two military commission trials completed during President Bush's tenure in office, representing Ali Hamza al Bahlul. Professor Frakt is a highly regarded expert in the field of international war crimes, military law and military commissions and has been frequently quoted in the national media, including in the *New York Times*, *Washington Post*, *Newsweek*, *Los Angeles Times*, *New York Review of Books*,* Wall Street Journal*, *USA Today*, *Miami Herald*, *The Nation* and the *Atlantic Monthly*. He has written widely in both scholarly and popular periodicals. His articles and letters have been published in the Washington Post, New York Review of Books, Harvard Human Rights Journal, American Journal of Criminal Law, and Florida State University Law Review, as well as online on Salon.com, CNN.com, Huffington Post, and truthout.org. He has been a repeat guest on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, and on PRI's "The World" and recently debated terrorism issues on the “Intelligence Squared” Debate series, broadcast nationally on Bloomberg News and NPR. Professor Frakt is a frequent guest speaker at law schools, conferences and symposia. Recent speaking appearances include Harvard, Duke, UCLA, Case Western, Seton Hall, and NYU Law School. Professor Frakt is a contributor to the ACLU National Security Project’s Torture Report and was featured in the book The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison, Outside the Law. Professor Frakt teaching and scholarship areas are criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, international war crimes and international humanitarian law. His latest articles will be published in the *Duke Law Journal*, the* Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law* and the* Air Force Law Review*.

Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulo, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

First elected to Congress in 1992, Carolyn B. Maloney is recognized as a national leader with extensive accomplishments on financial services, national security, the economy, and women’s issues. Her career has been a series of firsts. Maloney is the first woman to represent New York’s 14th Congressional District; the first woman to represent New York City’s 7th Councilmanic district (where she was the first woman to give birth while in office); and is currently the first woman to Chair the Joint Economic Committee, a House and Senate panel that examines and addresses the nation’s most pressing economic issues.

Adam Ried is a senior editor for Cook's Illustrated magazine and on-air kitchen equipment tester for the Cook’s Illustrated public television show, America’s Test Kitchen. A graduate of the Boston University Certificate in the Culinary Arts program, Adam has contributed restaurant reviews and food articles to The Boston Phoenix, the TAB Community Newspapers, and Gourmet magazine; has lectured on the topic of food writing at Boston University, Emerson College, and the Boston Learning Society; and has served as consultant to a small public relations and marketing firm specializing in restaurant and food related clients. Prior to his work in the food industry, Adam spent six years in marketing and promotion in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering. He is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Julia Collin is senior editor for Cook’s, and on-screen test cook for the television show, America’s Test Kitchen. She began working in the test kitchen at Cook’s three years ago, and now develops recipes and writes articles for the magazine and several cookbooks in the Best Recipe Series. She holds an AOS degree from the Culinary Institute of America and a BA in Psychology and Philosophy from SUNY Albany. Before coming to Cook’s she worked at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA, Specialty's Bakery-Cafe in San Francisco, Paula LeDuc Catering in Berkeley, and Greystone Restaurant in the Napa Valley. She also worked in the cellars of several Napa Valley wineries including Domain Chandon, and Oakville Ranch.

Her Majesty Queen Noor is an international public servant and advocate for world peace and justice.

Margaret S. Livingstone is Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She has published numerous scholarly articles about vision, and her discoveries have been reported in *The New York Times*, *The Boston Globe*, and *National Geographic*, among other mainstream periodicals. She lives in Brookline, MA.

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also chairman of the PIIE Advisory Committee, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. From 1997–98 he was senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund, where he worked on issues related to the international financial architecture. His publications include *Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System* (2008); *The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond* (2008); *Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods* (2006); and *Capital Flows and Crises* (2004).

Prof. Steven Nahn received his PhD from MIT, then worked as a Research Scientist at Yale, as a member of the CDF collaboration at Fermilab. He later joined the MIT Physics Dept faculty, where his research has been focused on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN. This work is expected to will cross a new threshold in collision energy, opening a new window on particle physics.

Ian Bremmer is the president of the world's leading global political risk research and consulting firm, Eurasia Group. Bremmer started the firm in 1998 with $25,000 in hand. Today, Eurasia Group employs more than 85 full-time employees in its New York City, Washington, and London offices. It also calls on the services of several hundred experts in 65 countries. The firm's client base includes more than 200 multinational companies, leading financial institutions, government departments, and political leaders. Eurasia Group is widely respected for its objectivity and ability to explain how political risk is directly applicable to the global marketplace. Bremmer has recently written articles for the W*all Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek,* and *Harvard Business Review*. His six books include *The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall*, which was selected by *The Economist* as one of the best books of 2006. In March 2009, he published *The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing* with Preston Keat, a director of research at Eurasia Group. Nouriel Roubini described *The Fat Tail* as the definitive survey of the subject and indispensible for global investors. Bremmer's May 2009 article for the Council on Foreign Relations' *Foreign Affairs* magazine is the first to describe in detail the new global phenomenon of state capitalism and its geopolitical implications. Bremmer has a PhD in political science from Stanford University (1994) and became the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has taught at Columbia University, the EastWest Institute, and the World Policy Institute, and in 2007 was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Much of his own analytical focus has been on emerging markets, which he defines as "those countries where politics matter at least as much as economics for market outcomes."

Daniel Altman is director of thought leadership at Dalberg Global Development Advisors and president of North Yard Economics, a nonprofit consulting firm serving developing countries. He previously wrote economics columns for *The Economist*, the *International Herald Tribune* and *The New York Times*, where he was one of the youngest-ever members of the editorial board. Altman also served as an economic advisor in the British government. He currently teaches as an adjunct at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Altman is the author of *Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends* *That Will Reshape the Global Economy; Power in Numbers: UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good (with Philippe Douste-Blazy); Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy; *and *Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble With America's Future. *